I remember that the first time I met an Omnist was on RF and I liked the idea. Omnism is the "belief in all religions" and belief "in a single transcendent purpose or cause uniting all things".
Intuitively, it makes sense. If man created all religions, all religions will contain some idea based on human experience of a shared reality. The fact that religions will ultimately still correspond to a shared reality means that there will be some shared truths between them. The belief in a "one true faith" rests on a great deal of arrogance and pride, particularly because it means treating one group of people are superior to another, when we all have relatively equal faculties in the brain (even if we may not use them equally effectively or use it in different ways).
This doesn't necessarily mean all religions are all true as it is dependent on the methods we use to establish the validity of individual beliefs. So religions contain a mixture of truth, honestly mistaken illusions and maybe some deception as well. Its still important to sort through them and figure out what the good parts are and what we can learn from older religious traditions when creating new ones.
This may belong in the syncretic sub-forum but as an idea to explore as a basis for a new religion, I think it deserves to be here in the New Religious Movements DIR. It raises the possibility of creating new religions based on the shared truths of the old.
Do you think there is value in the view that all religions contain some truth?
Intuitively, it makes sense. If man created all religions, all religions will contain some idea based on human experience of a shared reality. The fact that religions will ultimately still correspond to a shared reality means that there will be some shared truths between them. The belief in a "one true faith" rests on a great deal of arrogance and pride, particularly because it means treating one group of people are superior to another, when we all have relatively equal faculties in the brain (even if we may not use them equally effectively or use it in different ways).
This doesn't necessarily mean all religions are all true as it is dependent on the methods we use to establish the validity of individual beliefs. So religions contain a mixture of truth, honestly mistaken illusions and maybe some deception as well. Its still important to sort through them and figure out what the good parts are and what we can learn from older religious traditions when creating new ones.
This may belong in the syncretic sub-forum but as an idea to explore as a basis for a new religion, I think it deserves to be here in the New Religious Movements DIR. It raises the possibility of creating new religions based on the shared truths of the old.
Do you think there is value in the view that all religions contain some truth?