Many wars have started with that thought. It won't happen. In the Bible, 'Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.' (John 14:6, NASB) That's pretty clear and excludes the possibility of going to heaven by means of faith in anyone else. No mixing allowed.

Won't happen - man can rationalise away ANYTHING if it conflicts with his core beliefs and/or values. Even if the 'True' god appeared in person - there would be those muttering 'It's an Alien trick - I bet the Saucer is parked over the hill!"

Only way to unify religions, would be not to have any religions at all, but sadly that will probably never happen, seems that some people can not function and have moral values without the fear of eternal suffering...

One religious book for all religions (calling it a mix to try and convince ppl to follow it) maybe the un should come up with something like that and try to make the member and non member nations follow that......i feel religion is just a path to god... just a thought.

I doubt anything could. Maybe the denial of all god-based religions would do it.

Open mindedness. Religions cannot exist in peace as long as each thinks they are the only one who is right and that everybody else should agree with them.

I think to unify all religions you'd have to take faith out of the equation. You'd have to have incontrovertible, consistent hard evidence that there is a god, what this god's rules of human behavior are and the role this god has in the universe. In other words, it would not be a "belief" but a fact, as obvious as a corporeal object.

Most religions go around the fact that every other one is wrong, and a lot of them try to convert others, too. As long as religions are like that, it's not going to happen. It's impossible.

Alot of marijuana. Just kidding. Seriously though, I don' t think such a feat will ever be accomplished. People are very firm with their beliefs.

Love...

"Trying to control isn't the answer. When we find the true `God Experience', the fight over whose religion is best--it fades. There's just one truth." It would take a true God experience. Said experience of course does not exsit.

The major world religions actually have a lot in common already, in ethical values, an emphasis on service and caring for others, providing pathways for a more meaningful and compassionate life, etc. The thing that stands out in your question for me is the word "belief": ironically, beliefs are what DIVIDE us and serve as the boundaries for conflicts between religions. So the notion that one would attempt to unify them by settling on a single set of beliefs is quite strange. The interesting thing from my perspective is that if you factor out beliefs, you find a lot of commonality in the qualities that religion develops in people. Using your first-semester algebra, it's not hard to imagine that beliefs simply factor out of the equation: they're not all that relevant to the outcome and purpose of religious practice: to produce better humans! This is consistent with a Zen orientation, which encourages holding beliefs at arm's length to avoid becoming so enamored of that forest that one can no longer see the trees.

Second coming of Christ...

That's like doing the impossible. It will never happen unless there really is a God(s) and he/she/it will finally help us after all these years. I personally don't look to world peace as hope as some other do. Why believe in something that will never happen? If it makes someone feel better, than believe away. I'm not against making people feel better.

Jesus Christ

Maybe too much emphasis is placed on religion altogether, that people are paying far too much time thinking of there religion, and there religions beliefs and following what there religion states, that i believe religion is what is stopping a united faith. To unite faith, would be to unite all religious books and contexts, as these are all sections of history divided amongst nations of the world, and thereby unite people to share and discuss the opinion of religious history.

It would take everyone in the world dying with the exception of one. And even then, you might have some trouble.

Religions are mainly composed of beliefs (lines of reasoning), rituals, meditative practices (clearing the mind of thought/emotion) and charity for others. Beliefs and rituals divide religions but meditation and charity can unify religions. So, one method to bring world peace would be to require society to have two characteristics. 1. It can only accept those people who accept all other beliefs as being true (and therefore that no one true belief exists). 2. It can only accept people who are willing to perform the rituals of all the religions. If everyone in society can do those two things then it seems we would have peace between the religions, but at the price of giving up the concept of truth. People from different beliefs will naturally meditate and do charitable works together, so that should help unify the religions. A better alternative is to have all religions agree that people can hold whatever belief they want to, even if their belief is thought to be wrong. That works somewhat, except for the belief systems that ultimately require the whole world to get rid of "false" beliefs. So this method can easily slip into requiring people to belief than all beliefs are true in order to avoid problems (that seems to be where America is today). Another alternative scenario would be for one religion to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that their beliefs were true, and then to exclude from society those who still will not accept the truth. That would bring peace too. The big question in that scenario would be whether the winning belief system was actually true or not. Any of the "world peace" scenarios assume people who are altruistic and willing to self discipline themselves rather than requiring the external discipline of police/soldiers. So everyone would need to be well training and sincerely follow their mostly non-violent beliefs in practice. So, the three ways seem to be to 1. train everyone to tolerate all other beliefs, even wrong ones 2. basically to figure out which belief system is true and have that system rule the world, or 3. give up on the concept of truth. I'm not sure there are other options that would bring lasting peace. We could try separating the religions into different areas, but I'm not sure that would be successful (the different areas would fight each other). And we could try to do away with all "belief systems", but Atheism is a belief system in and of itself, so doing away with all "belief systems" is logically impossible. Note that each of the options would require excluding from society those who disagree, so we may have "thought police" and some sort of separation of those with different belief systems in our future if we really want to press for full world peace... So, unless the truth can be figured out and win worldwide in the marketplace of ideas, it may be better to have some conflict between the religions rather than having some sort of "thought police". http://www.chooseyourbeliefs.com