What religion is being referred to here?

Question

Who said this? and what Religion was being referred to? I will provide the answer when after the question is closed.

"I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal tolerance, but we accept all religions as true. As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different paths which men(and women) take through different tendancies various they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God." - ?

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Answer 1

hinduism
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Answer 2

The words were spoken by Swami Vivekananda.

http://www.swamij.com/swami-vivekananda-1893.htm

A very nice quote - thank you for posting it!

I also found this from him while researching:

WHY WE DISAGREE
15th September 1893

I will tell you a little story. You have heard the eloquent speaker who has just finished say, 'Let us cease from abusing each other, and he was very sorry that there should be always so much variance. But I think I should tell you a story which would illustrate the cause of this variance.

"A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. Of course, the evolutionists were not there then to tell us whether the frog lost its eyes or not, but, for our story's sake, we must take it for granted that it had its eyes, and that it every day cleansed the water of all the worms and bacilli that lived in it with an energy that would do credit to our modern bacteriologists. In this way it went on and became a little sleek and fat. Well, one day another frog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well.
"Where are you from?"
"I am from the sea."
"The sea! How big is that? Is it as big as my well?"
He took a leap from one side of the well to the other.
"My friend," said the frog of the sea, "how do you compare the sea with your little well?"
Then the frog took another leap and asked, "Is your sea this big?"
"What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!"
"Well, then," said the frog of the well, "nothing can be bigger than my well; there can be nothing bigger than this. This fellow is a liar, so turn him out."

That has been the difficulty all the while.

I am a Hindu. I am sitting in my own little well and thinking that the whole world is my little well. The Christian sits in his little well and thinks the whole world is his well. The Mohammedan sits in his little well and thinks that is the whole world. I have to thank you of America for the great attempt you are making to break down the barriers of this little world of ours, and hope that, in the future, the Lord will help you to accomplish your purpose.

Answer 3

I dont know which religion you want to relate it to, but there is one comment I would like to make here.

I disagree with the statement because I have always been of the opinion that all paths do not lead to the same GOD.

That is like insulting GOD because the path of violence and trechery leads to the same GOD as the path of non violence and tolerance?

I once watched a muslim mulla or producer of an Islamic tv show where he stated something similar.

He was saying that the stream of sweet water eventually joins the ocean. There is usually a wall keeping the two apart for a while where they meet but eventually the wall breaks and all are absolved into the vast ocean.

What he was trying to say was that there are the sweet waters and the salty waters and in spite of the wall in between, the sweet water will finally mix into the larger salty water ocean.

That is when I realised that I am not in agreement with these kinds of statements like all roads lead to rome kind of saying.

Those creatures who live in sweet water cannot live in salty water.

And when sweet water mixes with salty water, it becomes salty and loses its sweetness.

Salty water never becomes sweet.

Therefore, I am totally in disagreement with the above kinds of statements. I heard all this from a muslim perspective and I have given my opinion.

All saints and sages use similar kinds of verbatim to explain the good in religions but I will not agree that I go to the same GOD as the followers of a religion who are violent and kill for nothing and steal other people's land.

Answer 4

Universal Unitarism

Answer 5

I don't know for certain who said this, but it sounds familiar. It sounds like Buddhism. I stayed at a Zen Center a while. I told a priest that my mother sent me to her Baptist church when I was young. He said it's fine if we go to other churches. At a Christian church, I made the mistake of telling someone I meditated at the Zen Center and learned Shorin martial arts at the Soto Zen temple. The next thing I know, these imbeciles were praying for me to remove the devil of Buddhism. Guatama the Buddha was agnostic, so he was quite tolerant of all religions.

Answer 6

Hinduism

Answer 7

The religion of idolatry. People-pleasing is idolatry, and putting man's opinions ahead of God's is idolatry. Americans make the grave mistake of assuming idolatry involves statues, but anything--from people, money, material possessions, hobbies, work, ect.--can be an idol if you care for it more than you care about God, no matter how much you say you love God with your lips.

Answer 8

What a sad and misled person, whoever said it. How is it possible to accept all religions as true? Sorry, but you're gonna have to make choices sometime in your life.

Answer 9

It is definitely not Christian, it does not teach universal acceptance, or all religions as true, I like this religion, whatever it is. I'll be looking at the answer.

Answer 10

Sounds like Christianity.

Answer 11

Hinduism!