Mrrzy: You said you'd like an example of a religion that preaches that other religions are true. I believe Hinduism admits the possibility that other religions contain some truth. I know that Gandhi took a lot of his inspiration from the Christian New Testament, although he remained a Hindu all his life. Maybe it's because Hinduism has so many gods already, that they have no trouble adding a few more!

I think the ancient Romans did the same thing. They easily accepted Mithaism, for example, as long as its practitioners also performed perfunctory sacrifices to the emperor. What bothered them about the Christians was that they refused to perform these sacrifices.

I think I once read where a Hindu explained it something like this: If a Hindu becomes interested in Christianity, he becomes a Hindu AND a Christian. The idea that one must give up one religion to practice another is foreign to Hinduism. It's about as silly as saying you have to give up believing in mathematics if you want to study music.

I once knew a man of Indian origin, who said he was a Hindu AND a Muslim AND a Christian.

I have known Quakers who practiced more than one religion, for example, Quaker and Catholic, or Quaker and Jewish. There is nothing in Quakerism that forbids this. And I've heard there are some Quakers who believe you can be a Quaker and an atheist at the same time, although I don't know how they make that work.

In fact, I think you can find people in almost any religion (a minority, admittedly) who also have high respect for - if not actually practice - other religions. Mystics of whatever denomination often discover that they have a lot in common with mystics of other religions. And every major religion has its share of mystics.

And there are probably a lot of people in mixed marriages who practice their own religion as well as their spouse's.