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Love, Religion, and Nonviolence (Pt.2)
Or the lack thereof…
Coming clean…
To come clean, I will tell you exactly where I stand when it comes to the issue of world religions. As Vedanta teaches, I believe that truth is one, but that it is called by many names. In short, I am a Perrenialist. Pereniaism has been around for centuries. A brief discussion might help. So, I will begin with a definition:
The perennial philosophy (: philosophia perennis), also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a school of thought in philosophy and that posits that the recurrence of common themes across illuminates universal truths about the nature of reality, humanity, ethics, and consciousness. Some perennialists emphasize common themes in and across time and cultures; others argue that religious traditions share a single truth or origin from which all esoteric and knowledge and doctrine have developed. ()
I wasn’t always a follower of the Perennial Philosophy. I really only became so as time passed. The convetional Christiian (I do not claim the name) has dissatisfying. And it’s vision for most of humanity. I have written about this before: My argument is mathematical:
