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I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.