No. The correct answer is no because the behaviors of different religions show the impossibility of different religions getting along. Sooner or later the differences will go off the boil and clash.
What about people with little or no religion? Is it inevitable they will clash? Not over religion because they have so little of it or none at all.
The problem with religious differences is only among people with different religions. Remember, religion is mystical. All religions are based on a mystical view of existence. If the founding ideas are not mystical we aren’t dealing with a religion. A religion based website states: “Religion doesn’t kill—people kill”.. The error is quite clear. People kill sometimes because of the differences in their religions. One could argue that “Guns Don’t Kill… People kill” but people can and do kill with weapons and guns are weapons.
What about the idea that “Religion is a set of mystical views about the supernatural origins of, workings of, and purposes of reality, and what this implies about the living of life.” That’s the view taken by Dr. John Ridpath in his lecture: “Religion v. Man” Two problems immediately come to hand. First religion is mystical. Second religion is supernatural. These two factors leave the definition of religion up to the unknowable.
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