My sentiments exactly

-Mahatma Gandhi (via libbylovesnyc) (via lrusso) - with all due respect to Gandhi -he did some powerful work for human rights & peace- i can’t totally agree with this statement. the second part, i can handle though i’d say things are already broken, we just make them more broken. but to assert the first part, “different roads converging on the same point” requires that one can see all these different roads. it’s like you’re looking at a map that nobody else can see. it assumes the level of knowledge you’re saying nobody has. such sayings have the appearance of humility but arrogantly dismiss any other perspective simply as “a different road.” (via hilker)

Where I disagree with Mahatma is his assumptions about the word “goal”. He assumes that all religions drive towards the same goal. Hilker is arguing against the blind man/elephant illustration, where it is seemingly pointed out that we can each only grasp a part of the elephant (truth), but ironically implying that the one giving the illustration is the only one who isn’t blind. However Ghandi’s point is not so much “No single religion can see all truth”, but “All religions do the same thing”. But what is that “one thing”? To better myself? To provide positively to a community? To become more happy? My religion does this, but secondarily. The goal of my religion is to come to know absolute truth and become connected to the Giver of truth. All religions cannot achieve this same end if they disagree on fundamentals of said truth, such as the existence of a Creator, his character, and the means of becoming connected to him.