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Essay on Philosophy of Religion-2
Lots of folks would like to see this happen. They believe humanity desperately needs such a thing in order to rid the world of the hatred and violence caused by the we-have-the-only-truth doctrines of the different world faiths. There is even a current faith that is making inroads to this goal. The faith teaches that God has sent a series of prophets including Abraham, Moses, Jesus Christ and Muhammad to teach God's eternal moral truths. Believing that all the world religions honor the same God, the Bahaullah taught that God wants there to be just one faith based on service to humanity and on mutual acceptance on one another, with no discrimination for age, race or sex. Houston Smith writes that if God is truly a God of love, it is most likely that God would have revealed himself to all his children and not just to any one particular group of his children. Smith believes that such revelation would ``have taken different facets and different forms according to the differences in nature of individual souls and the differences in character of local traditions and civilizations.''
"The World's Religions", by Houston Smith is no pollyannaish romp, it is about religion alive as he says that it calls the soul to the highest adventure it can undertake, a proposed journey across the jungles, peaks, and deserts of the human spirit, the call is to confront reality; and by translating the voices of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Christianity, and Judaism, among others, Smith has amplified the divine call for generations of readers.
Many of the world's religions claim to have the only way and believe in punishment after death for the wicked and for non-believers. The uniqueness of Christianity lies in the tenant of faith that God would love humanity so much that he would become a flesh-and-bones person (Jesus)....................
