Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say “more or less” because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

-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)

What if the road signs themselves specifically say they’re traveling to different places? When religions make mutually exclusive truth claims, they both can’t be true—i.e., they can’t have the same destination.