Is A World With Many Religions Better Than a World With Only One?

[Mel B]

I believe religion will always be with us. Just as most people are right handed and a few people are left handed and a smaller number of people are ambidextrous, I believe most people are wired to be heterosexual and I believe that most people are wired to be believers in something bigger than themselves. I am not saying heterosexuality and believing are correlated. I am saying the majority of the people in the world are religious and will continue to be religious. Grant you, there might be a better word that 'religious'. However, my point is I don't think one worldwide religion is the answer. The Christian scriptures, i.e. the Book of Revelation, disagree with me.

 

[LuisDantas]

Fair enough, but do you see the two matters as related? They seem fairly separated to me.

 

[George-ananda]

I think the Truth merges into One. But, especially in the past, cultural perspectives were different enough to make religions seem different on the surface.

 

[Mel B]

I'm guessing you are asking if I think my question about a world with many religions is somehow related to my belief that most people are believers. I'm thinking they are but I'm not sure how to describe it.

Here goes an attempt at a better version of the question. A question I don't have an answer to. If most people are believers and if most people will continue to be believers would the world be a better place of all these believers practiced the same religion? I would like to say the answer is yes but my gut kind of tells me that's the wrong answer.

 

[Mel B]

Fair enough, but do you see the two matters as related? They seem fairly separated to me.

Sorry Luis, I'm fairly new and I didn't hit the quote button. Do I need to hit the quote button for you to know I responded to your comments?

 

[Mel B]

I think the Truth merges into One.

I would like to think the truth merges into one but I see no evidence of this happening in my lifetime.

 

[Cacotopia]

Question can't be answered only speculated.

 

[George-ananda]

I would like to think the truth merges into one but I see no evidence of this happening in my lifetime.

And to me, it has already happened. I don't hold my breath for everyone to agree now (or even in my lifetime) though.

 

[LuisDantas]

Sorry Luis, I'm fairly new and I didn't hit the quote button. Do I need to hit the quote button for you to know I responded to your comments?

That is one way.

Another one is to type the "@" sign and follow it with the first few letters of my forum handle, like this: @LuisDantas or @Mel B

You will shortly be offered the choice among forum members with similar handles. It is quite cool really...

 

[LuisDantas]

I'm guessing you are asking if I think my question about a world with many religions is somehow related to my belief that most people are believers. I'm thinking they are but I'm not sure how to describe it.

Here goes an attempt at a better version of the question. A question I don't have an answer to. If most people are believers and if most people will continue to be believers would the world be a better place of all these believers practiced the same religion? I would like to say the answer is yes but my gut kind of tells me that's the wrong answer.

That will come down entirely to what you understand by "belief" and by "religion".

Religiosity has actually little use for belief, IMO. And it is also highly personal in nature. Therefore my answer is yes, but with very strong qualifications.

 

[Altfish]

Maybe we should go one religion further; would the world be better with NO religion?

 

[TransmutingSoul]

I would like to think the truth merges into one but I see no evidence of this happening in my lifetime.

It started in 1844 with the Message of the Bab and then all the detail of how to achieve this was given by Baha'u'llah. It is now practiced in every country on this planet.

All Messages are from the same God and this is the day of the Unity of the entire human race. It will take a while and we will have to face more issues, but humanity will in time do this of their own free will.

Peace be with you.

 

[Jumi]

If there was only one religion they would be quite arrogant and less interested in looking for the truth.

 

[cfyahoo08]

I believe religion will always be with us. Just as most people are right handed and a few people are left handed and a smaller number of people are ambidextrous, I believe most people are wired to be heterosexual and I believe that most people are wired to be believers in something bigger than themselves. I am not saying heterosexuality and believing are correlated. I am saying the majority of the people in the world are religious and will continue to be religious. Grant you, there might be a better word that 'religious'. However, my point is I don't think one worldwide religion is the answer. The Christian scriptures, i.e. the Book of Revelation, disagree with me.

Depends on "the religion" and how it is lived / applied by its followers.

James 1:27 King James Version (KJV)

27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

 

[atanu]

I believe religion will always be with us. Just as most people are right handed and a few people are left handed and a smaller number of people are ambidextrous, I believe most people are wired to be heterosexual and I believe that most people are wired to be believers in something bigger than themselves. I am not saying heterosexuality and believing are correlated. I am saying the majority of the people in the world are religious and will continue to be religious. Grant you, there might be a better word that 'religious'. However, my point is I don't think one worldwide religion is the answer. The Christian scriptures, i.e. the Book of Revelation, disagree with me.

How I wish that there were no other views other than mine. How I wish that all would bow down only to me and follow only me.

But I realise the nature is not like that. Nature is greedy to partake of any experience that it can lay its hands on. It creates new and newer experiences. There will be as many beliefs as many people (and may be many many more..).

 

[cfyahoo08]

If there was only one religion they would be quite arrogant and less interested in looking for the truth.

perhaps if there were only one religion the arrogance would disappear because we'd be closer to considering everyone equal.

 

[Mel B]

If there was only one religion they would be quite arrogant and less interested in looking for the truth.

I like that thought.

 

[Mel B]

@LuisDantas
Thanks for the help

 

[stvdv]

Is A World With Many Religions Better Than a World With Only One?

Better suggests there is a purpose in this whole world. If God exists then only God knows. Humans can only speculate what their purpose of the world/universe is.

If the purpose is to learn lessons, then the world is okay as it is. Not all people are in the same classroom.
If the purpose is "heaven on earth" then many religions is not a problem. The problem is "religions judging other (religions)".

 

[Native]

I believe religion will always be with us.

Hello Mel B. and thanks for your interesting input. You asks: "Is A World With Many Religions Better Than a World With Only One"?

When/if studying Comparative Religion and Comparative Mythology, it is very remarkable how much they are similar to one another and this cannot just be caused by human migration and exchanges of religious or mythical informations.

It seems to me that the common astronomical and cosmological conditions way back in the human life and now was/is the main cause for the religious and mythical stories, included the Story of Creation, which occurs in all ancient cultures.

In this sense I think it surely would be better for all humans to have One Religion which is based on our common astronomical and cosmological conditions.

We all live on the same planet Earth; in the same Solar System, in the same Milky Way galaxy and in the same local part of the observable Universe. This is really our Story of Creation and of course it is common for all humans.

Read more on my personal Mytho-Cosmological Website