Can All Religions Be True Essay

Philosophy of religion is concerned with the philosophical examination of the important ideas and concepts found in religious practices and traditions. The question can all religions be true is indeed problematic as you cannot credit any single religion as being true due to the incompatibility of the religions themselves. If all religions be true then according to the law of non-contradiction it can be rendered false an idea, for nothing can be A and not A at the same time. In this paper I will be addressing the problematic question on religious pluralism; “Can all religions be true”, as well as compare an east and west religion, Christianity and the Upanishads respectively which are quite alike in their ideology of the self. However, my aim is to arrive at a conclusion that shows the flawed concept of religious pluralism. Nonetheless, I will

It is evident that the view of all religions depends on the existence of a God or gods or on the existence of an omniscience divine being; this notion being most prominent in the Hindu and Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam)). In the west, most philosophical focus has been on different versions of belief. Moreover, the monotheistic view of God until recent times, has been wrestled upon by ancient philosophers in contrast with a polytheistic concept in opposition to skeptic views and primitive naturalistic ideologies. For example, Plato argued that the view that God is singularly good should be preferred to the portrait of the gods that was articulated in Greek poetic tradition, according to which there are many gods, often imperfect and subject to vice and ignorance (Taliaferro, “The Concept of God”). However, the development of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam brought about a philosophical enquiry on the view of the idea of theism. When God is discussed in terms of omniscience being, we suppose a proposition considered true by one