A Theory as to why All Religions seem to lead to the same place
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Now Playing: "Losing my Religion" - can't remember
Topic: General Religion
People often quip, "how can religion x claim to be the only way to Heaven, Nirvana, etc? They all seem to say the same thing." You'll presently see that I have a very simple answer to the reason why people say this. You see, I feel that there is really only one way to do things most efficiently and so that they provide the most happiness. This is not to say that there aren't many ways to reach the same goals, but to paraphrase Chris Rock, "You can drive a car with your feet if you want to, but it ain't a f*cking good idea." Let me begin and I think that things will be much clearer.

Let's take a simple example. You live in Florida or another warm place and have an outdoor swimming pool. The tiles on such a pool tend to full of algea. There are two ways to clean it. You can use a large brush or you can use a toothbrush. Both will get the job done. In the end your pool will be clean, but clearly there's only one quick and efficient way to do it.

This is very similar to the way life works. There are people who sell drugs for a living and people who have a nine to five. They will both allow a person to have a pension plan, but one will end up in jail a lot more often.

Ok, so you get the point now. Basically I feel that it's the same way with religions. Think about the things that religions ask you to do and see if any of them do not lead to a better and more efficient outcome:
do not kill
do not steal
don't sleep with your neighbor's wife
live a life of peace with others
all creatures are a reflection of God
you are loved
you have a purpose
etc

How many of those tasks are evil or shouldn't be practiced? None of them. Therefore all religions make society a better place (when they aren't fighting with each other).

So where do we go from here? Basically, I believe that God designed certain rules to the universe including the way life and society should best work. However, it doesn't take a direct command from God to tell you how things are supposed to work. It's just obviously. Therefore people are able to independently able to come up with the same rules.

As an example: I may be wrong, but I don't think that Confucious and King Solomon were contemporaries. What's more, I don't think that the Chinese were too keen on Jewish religion when trade went on. Thus, it's pretty interesting that the proverbs of these great men contain quite a bit of overlapping. That's because proverbs are meant to be easy to remember lessons about how society should be.

Again, it doesn't take God telling you that you should be killing each other for you to realize that it's counter-productive to society. With the Jewish people I just believe that he picked a group of people to share his rules with. Kinda like he allowed them to see his hacker sheet of the way the "system" really works. Other groups had to figure it out on their own.

As a final cause for thought here. The diet prescibed by God to the Jewish nation, known to us as a Kosher meal, has been recognized by scientists as one of the healthiest diets in the world. I don't think that's an accident and at the same time I doubt that those who wrote the original scolls were nutritionists. Thus God gave them the secret of a great diet whereas other countries had to figure that out too. (As America is still doing)