Friday, August 3, 2007

Universalism

"After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that [1] all religions are true; [2] all religions have some error in them; [3] all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives. My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible." ~Gandhi

Universalism. We all get saved. Even after death.

I think it's a great idea, but it is a human thought, a human thought blended with wishful thinking. Though I'd love it so much to be true, for universalism to be real, hell must be dismissed. Without hell, there is universalism.

However, if hell was in fact purgatory, universalism is as real as God.

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