studying comparative religion

There is a statement here which I find appropriate from my youngest daughter which is: 

"Either all religions are right or they are all wrong."  At the time my daughter was about 13 years old but I will never forget the logic of this statement because the logic in some ways is flawless.

I can also remember after being raised in the 1950s which was a very religious era in our history and a time of great changes especially from the 1950s through the 1980s from my perspective. I can remember being around 18 years old and wondering whether I wanted to continue to believe in God and Angels given how crazy the world is. I experimented with not believing in God and my response was I wanted to commit suicide.

After this experience I realized my best interests (if I wanted to stay alive) was to believe in God  (a higher power) and at this point I believe that mass murders are mostly committed by people who don't believe in anything including themselves. So that murder suicide is an act of a non-believer it is an act of unkindness towards oneself and all others that could only come from a non-believer in the first place, especially one raised in a Secular Christian country like this one.

But, often I am haunted with my daughter's prescient 13 year old statement of "Either all religions are right or they are all wrong."

So, when you study comparative religion I think it is important to understand this. It's not really about Your religion, it's about all religions. They are either ALL right or they are all wrong. This is only logical and reasonable.

From my personal point of view I took Christian Mysticism which I was raised with and added parts of other religions as they seemed practical and useful to me.

To me, Religion is a tool to maintain one's center and to stay calm enough through all the deaths of loved ones through time and all the wars in the world. 

It's true that each culture tends to be based in a different religion or different set of religions. But, they are important in keeping civilization alive as long as they don't outright cause the death of too many people for one reason or another.

To me, what is more important is that people create their own individual religious philosophies that personally suits them. This is what I do when I write. I'm writing about what I believe reality actually is.

So, in this sense I am writing my own Bible as I move through life as God Gives me utterance.

Teaching Kindness and Compassion for all beings is the essence of my personal religious philosophy.

But, from a logical reasonable point of view this is also the basis of all civilizations on earth.

Kindness and compassion keeps people alive when  other things do not. Without Kindness and Compassion all civilizations die slowly or quickly. This is just a fact.

By God's Grace