Well everyone has diffrent veiws on the world, but I for one don't think that what the world is right now, is not evan an inch closer to equalisim, then it was yesterday.
They are all correct. What is behind a religion other than faith? This is true for all religions, so they must be all right.
Look at it this way, I hate math, but this is the best way to explain it. Let's take a certain value, say 4. This is the value of faith.
Well, if Christianity is X, Judiasm is Y, Hinduism is Z, the list could go on forever. but Christianity, Judiasm, and Hinduism are all held together with Faith, they are all equal to faith, so X=Y=Z=4
To christians this is a fact. I like this idea, it is pretty much what I try to make people see. Because how could millions of people be "wrong", if they believe in something else than Christanity.
Drace, I think I can communicate your point more clearly with some examples:
Specific to most interpretations of traditional Christian doctrine are the specific clauses "I am your one and only God," and "you will have no other God before me." Which is to say that within the definition of various religious is a clause of exclusivity.
Therefore the idea of "equalism", or any kind of universalism (whether it's unitarian or it's the Ba'hai church or whatever) will indeed be at odds with various parts of religious doctrines, and not just the Christian one. This is the single biggest challenge that faces this idea and also the one that sets it apart.
At this point, would you rather claim that a) every deity can be lumped into a single "entity" i.e. all religions worship "the same real God", b) every deity exists as their own real entity, or c) that the quality of being a "deity" is man-made? Equalism, by statement 2, would tend to c). In my view, a) and b) face the difficulty I mention first anyway and are therefore less useful.
