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| A HINDU CALL FOR RELIGIOUS
PLURALISM |
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| Pluralism
allows the clash of paths, not as an outer battle, but as part of a spirit of free
examination. This clash of paths is as important as any unity between paths for helping
the human spirit grow. We grow spiritually more from dialogue with those who disagree with
us than from having our beliefs unquestioningly affirmed by others. This requires that we
are willing to have our own views scrutinized as well as being willing to examine those of
others. Yet though creating a forum for possible debate, a
pluralistic tradition does not seek to finalize that debate or even insist that people
partake in it. Pluralism asks that we maintain tolerance in spite of such disagreements
and debates. It means that we should accept religious differences as a fact of life, like
other natural variations, even if all such variations are not entirely wholesome.
Pluralism does not require that we make all religions the same, it doesn't even require
that we like all religions.
It allows us to have our own judgments, however narrow or wide these may
be, as long as we allow others the same freedom of opinion. Nor does pluralism try to reduce one religion to another. It doesn't say that
Buddhism has to become a form of Hinduism regardless of what Buddhists might think, that
Christianity and Judaism must reunite, that all religions have to become sects of some
greater religion, or similar attempts to equate or unite different religions. |
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