Lewis says in Miracles, “we should prefer to think that all nations and individuals start level in the search for God, or even that all religions are equally true. It must be admitted at once that Christianity makes no concession to this point.”
– Chose for the Unchosen – C.S. Lewis website
This is what I liked about Allah, he makes no difference in which religion. That one God is the same as Allah.
Those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians and Sabians, (star worshippers), whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day and does righteous deeds shall have their reward with their Lord. On them will be no fear nor shall they grieve.
– Qur’an (2:62) / https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_secularism#Scriptural_basis
All religions are equally true and in that turn, equally false. No one religion is perfect, which is why a church can’t claim to have the infallible truth. It can have its approximation of the truth. Science has its own approximation of the truth.
A final note:
“In science we have been reading only the notes to a poem,” Lewis says, “but, in Christianity we find the poem itself.”
I like the idea that life itself is a poem, but I don’t believe that religion is actually the poem, its like a painting of the poem. Maybe not a painting, just what the poem left behind in our imaginations, or the stories we tell of the poem.
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