Many people in the west believe "there is something out there" while others affirm with conviction that they know there is no God.
Eastern religions teach that "everything" is God and through meditation we can come to realise our inherent divinity. Those in the Judaeo-Christian traditions believe that the creation is not part of God at all.
Islam teaches the oneness of God and denies the Trinity, while Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and the majority of protestant churches affirm the doctrine of the trinity.
Buddhism teaches that the question of God's existence is not very important - what counts is following the eightfold path for right living. It teaches that through earning merit in this life we will reincarnate to a better state.
Satanism and high-level freemasonry teach that Lucifer (Satan) is the true God we must worship, while to most people Satan is an evil enemy - not a friend. The New Age movement however, in its upper echelons embraces Lucifer as a friend, and teaches that every religion except evangelical Christianity (and possibly Judaism) must unite for world peace.
Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and other cults teach that man must work his way to acceptance with God, while evangelical Christianity teaches that salvation is a gift and can't be earned.
So many fundamental contradictions exist between different religions on every major point, yet many want to believe that many if not all religions are all ultimately ways to God. But what kind of "God" would change his mind about who He is and what He wants from us? Only some kind of imaginary wishy-washy, confused, schizophrenic deity, unworthy of our worship, would think like that. So why should we? Away with this nonsense about the inherent unity of all religions. Any religious movement which claims this, such as the Bahai faith, has already separated itself from any other religious movement in order to maintain its distinctive doctrines
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