World Religions Reconciled

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This will be a real challenge to fill out! I see myself as a rather complex person who enjoys the simple things in life and who also enjoys a simple life. I like to think that I have a low threshold for satisfaction (meaning, it does not take too much to make me happy) except in one key area: I am very judicious and choosy about the women who I spend my quality time with and I readily admit that, rightly or wrongly, I possess the 'flaw' of allowing only attractive, intelligent women to get close to me. Although my preferred way of being is humorous, I can be serious with the best of them. Conversely, although people who know me well know that I am bright and somewhat intelligent, I'd much rather be silly! As I told my family doctor a few years ago, "When I look back on my life, I see that I've had a charmed life, with a few stresses." Also, I can tell a lot about a person from what newspapers and magazines they subscribe to. In my case: The Wall Street Journal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, NEWSWEEK, U.S. News & World Report, ASTRONOMY, Sky & Telescope, The Planetary Report. Today, I am adding a blog of my favorite poem, 'Desiderata', which I believe was inspired.

Thursday, June 23, 2005

My Attempt to Reconcile the Religions of Man

The narrative below is from one of my many letters to the embassies of the Mideast nations since 1992; this is from a letter dated April 13, 2005:


During my ordeal during 1989-1991, one great stressor for me was that it seemed self-obvious that I was to reconcile or explain the existence of the several religions of man. My first thoughts on this were at age 13 when I read the book, 'A Gift of Prophecy' by Ruth Montgomery, a book about Jeane Dixon. Near the book's conclusion, Ms. Dixon describes a vision that she had on February 5, 1962 of a baby boy born in the Middle East who would grow up and "before the close of the century, he will bring together all mankind in one all-embracing faith,....the foundation of a new Christianity."

As an avid 13-year-old amateur astronomer in 1967, I reasoned that since there is one Creator who created the entire human race, there should be a way to do this but how, exactly, will 'Jeane Dixon's boy' do it?

After I had become settled down and had mulled this question over, in May, 1992, I wrote:



*****************World Religions Reconciled*****************

All major religions believe (or should believe) in a, or a manifestation of a, Supreme Being.**

1) Worship the Supreme Being
2) Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself*
3) Jesus is the only Son of the Supreme Being

*Great emphasis on this point. God already knows that He is God.
**Jesus teaches that the Supreme Being is a monotheistic entity.

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I was surprised by the brevity of what I had written and would view this as mathematicians view elegant equations.