Ideal Religion

Ideal Religion

One of the most divisive yet common idea to human experience is the concept of Religion. While there are so many religions around the world they all serve the purpose for mankind to help us live in our world. Anyone who has considered the thought of religion has always asked the question which religion is correct? The answer to this question does not necessarily need to be an endorsement of any particular religion, instead I will approach the answer with what qualities an ideal religion should have. The ideal religion should be in touch with the human reality we relate to by our senses, further it should also be as ordered, consistent, and applicable to everyone, and finally it should give insight in making choices and resolving conflict.
An ideal religion should be in tune with our reality because religion's purpose is to help us live in our world. Therefore human explanations for worldly experiences based upon empirical findings should not be held against religion, nor should religion hold itself above the human examination of the world around them. If the ideal religion is true, then explanations for the world would not contradict religious teaching on how to live in the world. It has been shown that our world operates in a regular way, predictable – hence, explanations backed by empirical evidence in ways such as our modern scientific method would never be in conflict with the ideal religion, since the ideal religion would always hold true. In our world, we could say that our religion is less than ideal if this idea does not apply. This first concept however leads religion to have a consequence of having a worldly attribute: order.
The ideal religion is in agreement with the natural order of our world as we observe (and as we observe more remains in agreement thereof) and thus must be consistent. The ideal religion could be practiced globally, not confined to one region or nationality. In addition ideal religion should be ordered insofar as to maintain a consistent belief among its members. If an ideal religion is the true religion, then everyone's truth would remain consistent, even globally. Any religion that claims a relativistic truth can/will be in conflict with itself since the differing truths are not reconcilable and can be described as less than ideal. In a world such as ours, differing truths is not applicable since people are constantly moving and being displaced. If truth is bound by region, then people would have to re-learn the truth applicable to their region. This is an arbitrary distribution of truth and is the result of people who have not taken the time to be orderly or consistent for I would take as personal reasons. Several different answers with different results are not correct for the same problem, they are in conflict with each other. The ideal religion would offer insight to the ideal answer to any problem.
The ideal religion would be enlightening when it came to making choices. As human life is a conflict of choices, religion in its job to help people live in our world would offer assistance in making choices. Normally religion narrows its scope of accountability to the morality of a person's decisions for the reasons that most other decision are arbitrary choices with no cause to harm*. Since people's moral choices are of interest to the ideal religion, ideal religion would offer an orderly, consistent way for people to discern morality from immorality. Additionally, this would remain consistent from person to person. The ideal religion's inheritance from our world can lead us to believe in a natural morality since our world is orderly, causing religion to be consistent in agreement with it, and applicable everywhere—hence we can infer that morality is relatively natural. This consequence leads us to see that morality, a natural part of our world, can be achieved by individuals outside the ideal religion, however, we can say that individuals within have better chance through religion to achieve it.
The ideal religion has relatively simple requirements, yet, we know that this is a complex issue, since there are a multitude of religion's around the world. The most pervasive religions all also claim two more properties –divine intervention and divine knowledge. Divine intervention into the lives of humans is a property claimed by most of society's religions. It is what gives religion its authoritative appeal, since if divinity has be the causation of religion it must be something that humanity must consider. A whole number of religions claim this, most share some of these basic characteristics, but the truly ideal religion would claim all of these characteristics. By judging religions around us by their closeness to the ideal, we can determine which religion would have had divine intervention and revelation. If no religion can claim this, then perhaps, religion is just a product of mankind. It is from my own personal revelation though that I can believe in a deep way that true religion does exist.