The end of false religion is near!!

[Deja Q]

Sigh. I don't even get visits from Jehovahs' witnesses!! But, they did leave a pamphlet under my door.

I just read it.

Definitely not friendly of * as it goes on about committing wars in the name of God and being exploited, and spreading 'false doctrines' and all that... then came the anti-fornication and anti-Gay stuff... it's also ribbing Islam but while the pamphlet keeps saying "Can you name a religion that tolerates _____"(sex, killing, et al) I'd love to say "Can you name a religion that doesn't say all the other religions are wrong and only yours is the right one?" We all know it can't be answered; all religions are in unison on that one... and we all know all but one (if not all of them) are ultimately wrong, thanks to bias on the part of the translators...

I wish we would have chatted...

More importantly, there are 10 people in my apartment complex who are H1B 'immigrants' (at least until they get educated and shipped back...). I doubt they'll have appreciated this litterature shoved under their doorstep, but anything's possible in this day and age...

[necso]

1. I talked to them

when they came by my place (but not for long, as I was making lunch). They said it (distributing this pamphlet) was part of a world-wide effort.

They have a point (in my words: the false practice of Christianity -- and, for that matter, other religions).

...

They're (generally) respectful, and I wish to encourage the practice. (Although, however, I'm willing to deal in the currency required.)

[ashling]

2. I got one of those

I told my wife it was for her ...

[billyskank]

3. It is possible

the problem is sectarianism. I was talking with Jehovah's Witnesses a while ago, and saw that their state of mind was that everybody else was worshipping false gods except for them.

We do not think like that. We believe in one God, and therefore we also believe that anybody else who is worshipping God conceived as the creator, maintainer and controller of the universe is necessarily worshipping the same God we do. They may not be worshipping in the same way, or they may even be worshipping in a totally wrong way, but what we do not think is that their God is a false God.

This is non-sectarianism - it is the refusal to condemn others for not following the same path that we do, even while we follow only our own path and do not adhere to others' tenets. Everybody has acquired a certain kind of faith in accordance with their own nature and it is not for us to criticise anybody, for only someone with Absolute Knowledge can honestly say who is higher and who is lower. And with absolute knowledge there would be no need for faith anyway.

[tjwmason]

4. One doesn't even have to go as far as pure non-sectarianism.

Most religious schools of thought I've seen acknowledge that as God's perspective is far above our own, any interpretation of religion will be less than perfect as we humans are less than perfect (or as St. Paul puts it in one of his Epistles "now we see through a glass darkly").

Therefore even those religions which believe to have received a unique revelation (which is most of them) can accept that they have something to learn from the others, part of whose doctrine it mutually incompatible with their own.

As to the O.P. - the end of false religion certainly is not near, there will be false religion for as long as there are humans walking the planet; false religion is just too easy.