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What is your view on other world religions? I recently made a friend- a mother who is the same age as me and she is a practicing Muslim. We were talking about our differing views on religion and spirituality and she believed that each of us is drawn to God in our own separate ways. Where she was drawn to God through words written in the Quran, she believes that others may be pulled to experience God in other ways. There is also another theory called pluralistic hypothesis, written by John Hicks that seeks to explain the variety of religions that people practice in the world. Here is a summary of John Hicks' pluralistic hypothesis:
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Three blind men were touching an elephant. The first blind man was holding the elephant's leg. He said, "I think an elephant is like the truck of a great tree." The second blind man disagreed. While holding the elephant's trunk he said, "I believe an elephant is like a large snake," The third blind man believed they were both wrong. "An elephant is like a great wall," he exclaimed. He was touching the elephant's side. Each blind man was convinced he was right and others were wrong without ever realizing they were all touching the same elephant. Some believe the blind men in this parable represent the major religions of the world, each in contact with the same "elephant" without knowing it.
What is your belief regarding other religions that have conflicting messages and points of view?
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