I read somewhere that one of the Hindu scholar was asked a question, after he delivered a lecture somewhere in west.
If I remember correctly, he was asked ‘will the world be a better place, if all the human beings on the earth follow a single religion?’
His reply was ’ It was better place, if each of the human beings gets a separate religion to follow’.
How do you see this? Do you agree with this philosophy?
Re: One religion for all or separate religion for each one?
People can belong to one religion and still create divisions amongst themselves through different castes, sects and schools of thought. Religious/philosophical pluralism (a multi-religious/philosophical society or world) can work, but only under certain conditions: In my view, the world will be a better place when people begin to genuinely respect one another, or at least become tolerant of each other, regardless of the religion/philosophy that they follow. Respect should be humankind’s #1 goal. Therefore, respect is a major factor and tolerance a healthy attitude. But this all depends on how one interprets their religion: by combining it with humanism and certain aspects of modern thought, such as equal rights.
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if you believe in God and that too in one God then there must be only ONE religion…that’s logical but humans are illogical…they create other gods on the side to gain small/big favours from that ‘personal’ god. humans are strange creatures in their thinking. never satisfied with anything…isii liye Allah ne farmaayaa hai k insaan baRaa be_sabraa hai aur beshak vo Khasaare meN hai.
yehii hamaaraa Khasaara hai k ham is 'aarzii dunyaa ke badle us abadii dunyaa ko bhool jaate haiN.
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Yes. Human beings are illogical. Some believe in multiple Gods. Others believe in one god. And believe the former are misguided because only they are being logical in their belief of one god.
Tickles me to see how sure such people are about their god and how skeptical they are of other people’s Gods.
As for original post, the world would be a better place if each person gets to choose what religion he wants to follow. Or whether he wants to follow any religion at all.
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His statement is accurate, as nowadays even belonging to the same religion creates divisions amongst people. It’s a sad reality.