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It's a great achievement for Islamic leaders and scholars as well as Newsweek and the Washington post to present this imperative opportunity for inter cultural and global philosophical dialogue. What's important is that by exchanging our ideas and comments regarding inter religious relations and world events that affect our views of each other as fellow human beings. Since the advent of humanity, We strove to make sense of the world we live in and the lives we've experienced. Worldwide curiosities to learn the true nature of life and our universe is an exceptionally rare virtue upon life on Earth. In other words, we're the only known species on the planet who've pursued to unravel these great mysteries and developed written philosophies based upon our understanding of the world around us.
One such philosophy that lasted throughout the ages of humanity is commonly known as religion and spirituality. Ever since our early belief in the Sky God and the God Mother from ancient Pagan times, we vigorously pursued to unravel the truth about our most profound questions. As any educated person would know that religion and their core beliefs or faith have evolved over time. Paganism, Monotheism and Polytheism have been influenced by humanity as these great philosophies have influenced our perceptions and decisions in life over the ages. Over time humanity has embraced diverse religious faiths and spiritual convictions that continue to influence our behavior in our times and most likely beyond.
What's vital for humanity's progress and even survival is to know the true nature of faith itself. To understand the true origins of faith. But most of all, is to accept the truth for whatever it may be. Each one of us will learn the absolute truth once we die. But until that time comes for anyone of us to depart this world, we really don't know the answer to God's existence nor do we have the absolute truth in regards to the true nature of God. Besides if we did possess the truth, there would've been only one religion on Earth with no diversification of any way, shape of form. There would only be one holy scripture written throughout human history.
Considering one's religious faith to be absolute, while considering others to be false would be ethnocentric at best. While collectively searching to unravel the mysteries on nature, life and the universe through sincere reasoning and serious research would be enlightening at its worst. Most importantly, we must accept the fact is that none of us have conclusive evidence to confirm our core beliefs and there's always an immanent change that our most cherished beliefs could be wrong. Our greatest challenge would be to tolerate the truth no matter what it may ultimately be. With such an open mind, we would be able to overcome any future discovery that would contradict our faith regarding the true nature of life, spirituality and divinity.
Humanity does have the ability to achieve such a social achievement. However, it's solely up to humanity and not any other entity or groups of entities to decide our destinies. Each one of us has a choice to make; either hopelessly engaging into meaningless inter cultural conflicts or combine our scientific and cultural gifts to thrive into an enlightened global civilization that could ultimately expand beyond our solar system. The choice is yours, and the time to make it is now!

TO Jacob JOZEVZ On: MAN Made OR MADE for Man ?

Whoever you are: GROW UP!!!

"Many of us believe that “Other” is shaped like the mind and heart of Jesus of Nazareth."

Watch out for the naysayers who will tell you that this is also imaginary because science cannot proof IT.

Short and sweet, Sir. I think you did an excellent job with your discription of religion, and even spirituality.

I like the spiritual part of your post, reverend.

The problem is when you start defining the "other" in more detail, disagreements WILL occur. There are thousands of even Christian sects who can't exactly agree what this "other" means and its relevence to humans.

PS. It bothers me (I will let you be the judge for yourself) how the Bible historically was used as justification for racially-based slavery (the Ham story) and the last Iraq War (our President was talking with God about the invasion you know -- his "other" father).

I think these people (slave holders and Dubya) were really talking to themselves-- Just my take... I see little spiritual inspiration from this....

You say:

"The systems of religion and explanations of religion are man-made, we being partners with God."

You mean, of course, "since we created God". Since "God" is man-made, all religions are also man-made, and "for profit" institutions, providing some good and far more evil, in every man-made culture on the planet.

It's a good thing we have a first amendment, isn't it? It protects us from this jibberish.

Thank you.

Bob

Well, Scotty, it's not supposed to be. Like many an administrative superstructure, the man-made institutions too easily become self-perpetuating. That is the part that costs money, and it has nothing to do with faith.

Yes, religion is certainly NOT about seperating man from his money.