Can different religions emerge though differ still understand and accept each other on moral commonalities?

Question

I found at my personal level persons with different religious background were able to accept me when I talked to them at the level of humanity. Most of them felt that their religion is the only religion that is the truth and the only truth to go to heaven. After giving respect to their religious belief and associating to their other personality trait I was able to realize that religion is a powerful means to understand each other by accepting the existence of any individual as the person is and not imposing my ideas on a person. A person can respect me if I give the respect to the person concerned. There is always a potential to understand each other irrespective of our different background.

Answer 1

I have seen many happy marriages between people of different faiths. One that comes to mind is a Mormon woman married to a Catholic man. They will never agree on certain points of their seperate religions, but they do agree that they love each other and want to make it work. On Sunday's they go to their own church services. They will go as a couple to some things, social activities and so forth, that are in one another's chuches. She pays her tithing, he pays his offering. Her home teachers come and visit them both, his Catholic friends as well. It works, if you have love and respect.
I think I heard it put best by the mother of a son who was about to leave on a Mormon mission. The mother was Mormon, the father was not. He was there to support his son though, and the wife said he may not believe in his son's cause, but he believed in his son.
That's all we can hope for out of life, a little understanding and acceptance that we are all different in many ways, and yet we are all just trying to accomplish the same good, worthy things.

Answer 2

I also find that with so many of our current mainstream religions starting with the old testament (islam, judaism, christianity), there is a starting place to compare morals. Where we have problems is where we refuse to consider the validity of those morals. When you start looking at why those rules and morals were developed, and the society that uses them, it makes it a lot easier to respect the individual. I just came back from 6 months in Afghanistan, immersed in Islam. If you make the effort you can learn to respect the people, but only if you make the effort to respect their culture.

Answer 3

yes and both people really have to be open minded to do that, but yes it can be done, i have seen people who have religious believes totally different from the other, an not push it on their childern, to let the childern decide when they are older which if either they will follow, and to let the childern live a normal life, without cutting birthday parties out, and holidays, now to me that shows love, and respect, and two very open minded people that r not trying to influcence their childerns choose in life.

Answer 4

I dont see a question here. But i think the touched ones, who believe in teh love of God, will go behind the feeling that faith brings inside; and the ones who are yet to discover that feeling go for the rituals.

Once we get touched, i dont think the religious tag on you matters. If you see someone to whom it matters, i think we shouldnt compete, we should rather think that he is at a stage of development, where yet he hasnt been touched and wish him luck.

Answer 5

You make a good point, except for nutter types, people from all religions can get along and appreciate each other.

--That Cheeky Lad

Answer 6

The prophet Hosea was inspired to write: "two cannot walk together, unless, they agree."

Answer 7

They already do with the exception of Islam. This is what's the problem.