habit: outward appearance; attire; dress; hence, a garment
If one looks with an unbiased eye as possible at the many different religions in the world and their subdivisions (Garrison Keillor wrote once that his church kept splitting until finally each person was sitting in a room by themselves), one lets go of the extremes of mockery of all religion and its opposite, exclusivity (my religion is the only true path), and can open to the consideration that the cosmos itself is trying on different attire for expression of morality (right relationship), compassion, and wisdom; that the cosmos itself is manifesting in ways that fit the current consciousness of humans. Water takes the shape of its container.
Each religion continues to evolve to greater awareness with the evolution of human consciousness. Smaller consciousnesses (awarenesses) inhabit (are clothed by) more closed-minded understandings and interpretations of their religion than do transcendental awarenesses (consciousnesses) within the same religion. "When I was a child I spoke as a child ...."
Religions that are alive, grow. That doesn't mean get fatter, expand outward. It means grow up, like a tree or lotus, seeking ever more light. Light-seeking increases until there are no more bounds, only light. When there are no more bounds, all religions merge. The cosmos stands nakedly transparent once again.
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George, I think I mentioned this to you before once, but my greatest religious epiphany occurred in Sunday School. My paster felt we should all be familiar with the great religions and I concluded how they were all more the same, than not. So, yes I believe all religions, those of today and those of tomorrow are heading in the same direction and will be one. LG
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