Can authorities of world religions find a healthy way of competition for better human living?

Question

There is somehow unhealthy competition growing between religions.All religions are promoters of love and peace.Then the question is WHAT'S WRONG?Why can't all the authorities of so called world religions come together and find a solution?
If United Nations has a Security Council,it can also have a Human Safety Council! How do you take it folks?
Damodar B.

Answer 1

Not today, such a "Parliament of Religions" did happen a 110 years before from now at Chicago, USA. There were hundreds of representatives from all over the world to represent their religion and find a solution. It was part of another big fair. Many of us in India still remember that fair, just because a Hero of this land surprised the world by demonstrating his oratorical abilities and utter knowledge on the nuances of world religions. He was a sage from India by name Swami Vivekananda. Well, that was history. But it is said, even before there were numerous efforts big and small to achieve harmony. But most of those efforts were keeping a Christian mind in the background. And uniting all religions under the Christian banner.

The problem is basically this, If you take all the major semitic religions of today, Judaism, Christianity, Islam. All these three absolutely negates Idol worship. Which to a modern Hindu mind looks absurdity. Because no where in India we have a temple where we worship the formless god as they do it in Mosques. We are bound to worship beauty and nature. Therefore, we need form, color and want to feel and express love. This is possible only if we assume that GOD has form or forms. Otherwise, we could have loved the air, the atmosphere, the clouds and the ether (so called) the most than loving a man or woman or animal. Prophet Muhammed was utterly against any form of image worship. He even wanted to destroy them calling it heathen and therefore evil worship. Well, that is highest form of religion to love and worship a formless GOD. Which in Hinduism we call "Brahman" the supreme. But Hindus growth is by stages. From childhood to manhood and then to old age in religion. You are a bud first, then flower then slowly you become a fruit. This approach of gradual growth is absent with the semitics. Therefore, it is highly impossible to unite all religions under Christianity as others thought in those days.

Problem with Buddhism is that it has no GOD. But still not an atheistic religion. Buddha was against any formal GOD. But was not against the highest realization that any religion under the sun could offer. So you can't unite Buddhism with any religion either.

All these arguments looks deeper in one sense, but still superficial. As almost any form religion has borrowed many of its similarities from ancient Hindus approach towards religion. When Aryans spread across the globe. But we have no known records to prove these things. Therefore, if you look at, some where archaeologists and historians, when they speak of fire worship in Turkey and middle east during the Pre-Christian era that means they had some relationship with at least the nomadic Indians moving across the continent. They had a good knowledge of Astronomy and Religion borrowed from people living near the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan (then India).

Now all my arguments might make you believe that Hindu's religion is the greatest as it engulfs numerous sects and unites them under one banner and makes them feel comfortable. But that is not the fact. If you look at Islam and their Holy Quran you might find numerous contradictory ideas. Which might be new to us.

And therefore, there is no authority to any religion today. An authority is the seer, a rishi of that religion. But once the seer is dead and gone the real authority is missing. Once they are dead and buried, the authority is just a mere human power monger or power handler. That is it. From then on all that remains is only the narrowness.

Answer 2

I believe that fundamentally, most religions are too narrow minded to allow room for true peace. Please don't get me wrong in thinking that is my view of religious people, it is the doctrine that is in need of reviewing. According to most of them, there is no other religion and anyone who doesnt worship their god is a misguided fool who needs to be converted. When Religion realises that there are Billions of individuals who have the right to choose, then maybe the peace process will truly begin. Many wars are fought over two sides views of the same religion. This unhealthy competition has been around for several thousand years, it is nothing new. Look at the crusades of a thousand years ago.

Answer 3

Absence of religion from the international isn't a answer for the ills from which the finished humanity suffers. All relgions contain elegant truths. it is the lack of expertise of adherents and followers and likewise the leaders of various religions that attempt to tutor the prevalence of their faith over different faiths that motives strife between people premiere to hatred and bloodshed. all the international religions of their organic variety are divine and can instruction manual humanity on the course to peace and progression however the vested pursuits contminate the nectar of organic faith and convert it right into a poison of greed and closed mindedness. If in basic terms the believers of all the faiths learn how to comprehend each and each others religions could the international be a much better place to stay in any different case the failings will bypass from undesirable to worse.

Answer 4

Because every religioin believes theirs is the only religion ,and every other religion is wrong.

Answer 5

They can if they honestly try it.