Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “Can all religions be correct?“, Leave a Reply below!
No religion is correct.
Yes and no.
Yes because the core of each religion says there is one supreme entity/energy and that treat others with kindness and dignity.
No because the religions generally get twisted over the years depending on the people in charge and thus focus on the negative instead of the positive.
Correct about what exactly? Politics? How to live life? God? What happens after we die ???
That’s like asking: “is Cherry Garcia ® really the best ice cream flavor in the world?”
(…Of course we all know that it is).
This depends on how one defines “correct.” As a neo-transcendentalist Gaian Unitarian Universalist I do not belong to a religion per se. I am a non-theist, however I find comfort in discussing the mysteries of the universe with a diverse group of thinkers. My thoughts about the existence are my own – perhaps a culture of one best describes it. I endeavor to live sustainably and contribute to world sustainability. Hopefully, I will leave the world having raised two extraordinary children who will seek their own understanding and follow their own paths.
I believe the only religion that is right is love. Sounds corny ,but I’m not talking about loving a girl etc… I mean loving the beings around you people, animals, the planet and yourself. Right or wrong it doesn’t matter. When you value the relationships that you have and form more loving bonds with others your life will be full of happiness. Whether there is an after life or not I will die knowing that I have tried hard to spread goodness within and around myself.
Logically, no. They all make mutually exclusive claims, thus by definition they cannot all be correct.
They can all still be wrong, though.
Yes, in a vague sense. Because each of us chooses or is taught that a religion is correct for us. We believe in it. Practice it. Each one is correct for the person who has chosen it.
I am not sure about other religions but i do know Christianity is not at all compatable with any other religion or belief system as it teaches that there is ONE way and ONE way ONLY to enter into heaven and that way the bible teaches is through Jesus Christ and no other
Absolutely.
This actually makes the most sense. We all came from the same place and will ultimately end up in the same place regardless of what religion you choose (or your parents choose for you to follow).
Christianity has only been around for 2000 years. So everyone that came before Christ automatically goes to hell because they never had the chance to know Christ? I don’t think so. That doesn’t make sense.
I believe that Christ is indeed a way to get to heaven – one way – not the only way. I’m starting to believe this concept that whatever you believe will guide you to where we’re going. There is not necessarily a right and wrong in the grand scheme of things. Sure, morally for us humans there is generally right and wrong, but surely Infinite Intelligence is beyond good and evil. We are here for the experience – to see and feel and taste and laugh and love.
Once we connect to the source, we know it all already – or know it again. Universal Intelligence knows all. God knows all. Perhaps the only way God can experience “new” things and new perspectives is to feel them through us. Perhaps we’re all part of God and we choose to come down here…perhaps we choose our parents and our lot in life to see how we do in the game of life.
And we’re all probably going to the same place regardless of what we believe.
Think about it…there are over 6 billion people on earth and maybe 1 billion of them believe in Christ. I believe in Christ as the savior, but common sense also tells me that the other 5 billion people on earth are not necessarily dilusional because they don’t share my belief.
I think all religions are right and I think we all end up in the same place. It’s really the only argument that makes sense…if my thoughts ultimately prove wrong, then my second guess is exactly what George Carlin believes (or believed).
No. If even one religion makes claims that are fundamentally incompatible with all the others (and the actual number is far greater than one), then it is false if any of the others are true, and only true if all the others are false. If we grant that any of them can be true, then at best only once can be.
Some may say that this only applies with a strict interpretation of scriptures, and that we have to look at the underlying meaning. But if we can do that, then we can convince ourselves of anything and the idea of correctness is forfeit. Ask 5 people what any one passage in scripture means and you’ll get 8 different answers. You’ll also have a bunch of theologians in training. Religious moderates may not like it, but there it is.
However, correctness took a flying leap at the very start (see Question 12), so the answer is clearly no… assuming the question is even valid.
Yes, for the people who feel comfortable with it.
Only a soulcommunity can be right, which is connected directly to the Supreme Soul, God and capable to change to the right direction continuously.
It depends on exactly what you mean by “correct”. If you mean “correct” as in a dependable representation of our shared reality, then no – of course not. If you mean “correct” as in a system designed to help humans cope in some fashion with the fact that they’re going to die, then yes.
Individually, whichever religion suits a given individual best is right for that individual.
In the big picture, they cannot all be completely correct. Most of them can be mostly correct. Some simply cannot be correct at all, and others can only be a little correct. Regardless, this will only even be possible if it is wholly accepted that none of them are literally true and are only metaphorical myths describing how one should live and also view life. It must also be accepted that these are all different interpretations of the same concepts, with respect to cultural differences. Some features are simply mutually exclusive no matter how loosely interpreted though, and still others are wholly incompatible with the development of our species for the same reason.
As with most things, it can never be an all-or-nothing situation.
Religions are so contradictory in their doctrines (stories) that no, they cannot all be correct.
Religious creeds and dogmas (the stories used to explain at the time what Science does now) are mutually exclusive. Denominations within the same brand name contradict one another, so I can’t see how they could possibly be correct.
Obviously not.
Since all religion is delusion, no. A particular religion may seem coherent and beneficial when considered from ITS’ standpoint. But religions collectively are delusional belief systems that ultimately divide and pit us against one another and against the natural world.