Are all religions both true and false?

[Creator]

Is it possible that all religions are both true and false at the same time?

Imagine viewing God/dess as a multifaceted diamond, and each religion only focuses on 1 of those facets with the exception of polytheistic religions where each deity represents a single facet of God/dess.

The thing is that God/dess might be so far beyond what we can comprehend that no religion is the complete truth on its own (therefore they are all false) while every religion represents a small part of the truth (therefore they are all true).

Your views on this?

[Thorn]

You've pretty much summed up my views on the matter. Though these days, I'm more of a hard polytheist, so I'm not as comfortable with the "represents a facet" concept as I used to be.


However since religion, unlike the divine itself (themselves), is a creation of humanity, it's quite possible for some religions to be completely off the mark. So, my "yes" is qualified: All religions that aren't absolute rubbish have some amount of truth and some amount of falshood.

[Summer]

I believe that God/Goddess at it's highest aspect is above all religion. Therefore there is no religion that can encompass all of the truth that God/Goddess is. I believe that when one becomes truly enlightened, one will know this.

But in the meantime, while we are searching for enlightenment, these partial truths that are religions, can really help us to find enlightenment. That is why I believe in belonging to a religion.

[jimmyRRpage]

Religion is only as good as it's followers make it.

But I also believe in the same concept. All religions have a semblance of truth to them. God/dess is too enormous for any living mortal to grasp. I do not believe we can ever know the full truth until we die. Granted, I also believe in reincarnation. And even after you die, if you have time before being reborn, you have to still search to truly grasp God/dess in His/Her completeness.

The truth all of the religions share is that there is a higher power and that power is the reason for the existence of every living and, yes, nonliving thing. The differences are what begin to show where the falsities lie. No one religion has the Complete Truth, because we can never know while we are alive. The concept is truly beyond a mortal life.

I believe that the Greek/Roman religion had as much truth and falsities to it as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. And, of course, everything in between.

Even the darker/"evil" religions believe in a higher power, so they do grasp that truth. Their interpretation of it is about opposite of ours, but they do still have that one overlaying truth.

[Thorn]

I don't know that the higher power/creator god is the key.

Some Satanic sects believe that we are the higher power. That humanity is as good as it gets. Though I'm not really sure this form of Satanism is a religion or a philosophy.

And some pagan paths believe that the gods aren't any more responsible for the existence of the universe than we are. There are paths that don't try to come up with a creation myth at all.

But they've still got part of the truth.

I really don't think we're capable of grasping the whole picture in this form. I think what makes the gods gods is that they can either see the whole thing, or at least a much bigger chunk that mortals can.