I agree. Yet, according to your first remark, to which I fully agree, if the masses reached a stage as a whole to better understand it all, then the false/irrelevant aspects of religion that differentiate and separate eachother would diminish, No?
One would hope so, although it is not a given and it is possible for that transition to fail. It will not be painless, either. Part of the proccess involves confronting the silly and destructive nature of many beliefs. For that reason, it can't possibly work without a lot of structure building happening first.
Ideally, the most troublesome Churches and cults (Westboro comes to mind, as do ISIS and whoever has to deal with the beliefs of Oliver North, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Michele Bachmann and the Reagans and Bushes) should be dissolved as gently as possible into less troubled configurations in one of the earliest steps. Or else their members will need to be in effect sacrificed while still living in support of the common good.
Then we would all share the same visions of a deity.
Probably not. We would however lend those disagreements a whole lot less importance. Personal understandings of deities are just not something that needs to be standardized.
God
will be One and Only for some, One as Three for others, Manifest In All for yet others, Manifest as Many for yet another group, Fully Unimportant for so many others. And that is just not a problem in and of itself.
Obviously the human mass would never reach such a stage of understanding, but hypothetically speaking we all potentially can see it the same way.
That I very much doubt. There are, however, some general trends that must be well-understood and well-accepted if we hope to avoid major crises as our population levels and collective ambitions keep growing.
I basically said this in my second post from the one you quoted, but I cant deny there's too much fluffly bs in religion that needs to be deleted from our legacy dude, like, way too much bs.
Personally, I was raised as a christian, but over time I kept asking myself why the hell that man over there is going to hell for being a follower of islam. Then I realized hes not, its the BS the pastors tell me that suggests that. The pastors wrong, not the purpose the messages in the bible portray, as the purpose is different depending on the individual. We ALL interpret messages of the bible differently, especially those to which we can apply our experiences and events in our lives to. Take the stupidly basic of them all, the story of adam and Eve. Do i really believe there was a single tree that contained the fruit of knowledge of good and evil? Hell No. But what purpose has it served me? It confirms my understanding that some things are better left unknown, and its often better to be naive in some ways than others. Now, I choose what knowledge I want to obtain more carefully, which is why I changed my mind about wanting to be a deputy. To others, it shows our defiant nature. etc. My point is, a devout follower of Islam spiritually can't/doesn't need the Christian path to fulfill his purpose in this life. Islam helps him on his path, not Christianity. Besides, whos to say he never met Jesus face to face in his own life anyway that set him free from chains that would have otherwise lead him to commit suicide.
I don't exactly disagree, but I think you should also consider that many people have been raised into paths that do not really suit them. One of the most difficult religious challenges yet to be faced is deciding what to do in those cases.
Far too often we try not to think too much about it and hope the problem will solve itself without troubling us. Yet it is not really possible to honorably deal with such a challenge by ignoring it. Not at this point in History.
That's Just a part of my reasoning. Religions have purpose to many, but clearly not all, but as I've stated before, the divine cannot have the best of both worlds, which is why reaching out to the masses through dozens of religions also causes conflict between them at the same time.
Conflict is unavoidable, but it is our duty to seek ways of expressing it that are tolerable.
