Religious diversity is cool. I’m all for it, but I want us all to respect one another.
However, what looks like brainwashing of certain religious sectarians (unable to accept plain, simple facts about other faiths, willful distortion) is just downright scary for what it implies about the vulnerability of the human mind in the hands of unscrupulous manipulators. 
consider this:
how is religion defined? is it the escense of God, or the worshiping of Him?
religion is man trying to discover God, not so much God trying to discover man. the question is not whether or not its the same God, its whether or not the aim of all religions is the same.
as all religions are attempting to learn and live in the teaching of God, then we can say that we all have the same aim. i like to think that there is one true God, and the various religions are merely mans’ misinterpretation of His message.
we know that christianity and judaism are very closely related. furthermore, islam evolved from some of the same major characters. so consider that God began to spread his word, provided the initial spark, and left the rest up to man. perhaps the major prophets of all religions were speaking for the same God, just at different times and in different places. perhaps moses and muhammad were both communicating the will of God, though they did not know it was the same God.
this is hard to explain in text, so let me just close with this…every major religion teaches the same basic principles. they all have the same sense of morality, love, and tolerance. these common aspects are those that God intended us to know…the rest, the religion, is what man began to believe on his own.
Out of idle curiosity, lekatt; exactly which deity were those Buddhists, Shintos, Muslims, Agnostics, and Atheists who fought for the United States during World War II fight to defend?
Please be so kind as to demonstrate that a being of truly transcendental reason and mind must necessarily be limited by human logic.
What is this phrase ‘human logic’ ?
There is no such thing, it is a stupid as saying ‘human mathematics’, logic like mathematics is a well defined set of rules for getting from a starting set of conditions to a new set of conditions. Their power is in that if the starting conditions are correct then the ending conditions are correct. This is independent of whose logic (or mathematics) it is.
akrako1’s statement could be attacked from many different angles, but to say that logic is somehow different for God than for humans is as foolish as saying math is different for God than for humans.
Nor am I. Why bother wasting your time, believing in something, so trivial, so broad, so…unproved? Just because someone told you to when you were younger? Because you have to have faith in something or you can’t live life? Who is to say what sinning is? Who is to say you will go to Hell for enjoying life to the fullest? If there were a God, would he not want you to have fun? I believe he would.
Look at how silly the ideas of the ancient Greeks and Romans seemed. Their beliefs were called “mythology,” the root word being “myth.” Anyone with half a brain in their head knows that a myth is nothing more than a fiction, a half-truth, forming part of an ideology, or a fictitious story, person or thing.
Now, if you really need it to be spelled out, fictitious is derived from the word “fiction,” meaning (by exact dictionary definition), “an imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented” or “the act of inventing such a creation or pretense.”
And yet you still believe…?
The Baha’i Faith submits that all religions are revealed in a progressive revelation. From Adam to Abraham to Buddha to Moses to Christ to Muhammad, God has revealed a single religion in progressive stages. No single Manifestation of God is superior, yet each has His own purpose and message for the time and culture that existed at that point.
God is beyond being One or Many, God is God. But there are no different Gods only one God, to whom all religions worship. The Baha’i Faith also believes that humanity is one people living in one country, Earth.
For More Information:
http://www.bahai.org/