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Home Theology Do all religions essentially come down to the same thing (part II)
Do all religions essentially come down to the same thing (part II)
Written by Division by Zero   
Sunday, 25 April 2010 10:43

In a earlier article I wrote about this question. If I have this discussion with someone, most of the time she/he only has one argument: all religions aim to give guidelines to live tBeach - original by Hakahonuhe best life possible. For example: most religions will tell you to live in peace with other people or even love them. This is true, but the question remains if this will make all religions essentially the same. The results are the same, but the intentions behind them aren't.

To address this ethical argument I need to answer the question if a good deed is still good if the intentions behind it aren't. For a pragmatic ethicist this question is irrelevant, because no-one can know another one's intentions. Then it's only the result that counts. From a pragmatic point of view ethical result of religions can be the same.

Although as human beings we can't know the intentions of other individual human beings. But we're talking about religions. We are able to study the "intentions" that religions have behind ethical rules. These intentions differ from each other. In these intentions religions are very different, though the result might possibly be the same.

Looking from an ethical point of view practical results of different religions can be the same, but this doesn't mean that the intentions are. These are different, therefore it's not possible to make this abstraction of equality based on ethics.

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