Man has been worshiping God for thousands of years and will continue for thousands of years as long as the earth revolves and the sun rises. For God is embedded and branched into man's soul and psyche like veins into a heart, like ivy into walls. Those who try to separate them are destroying them both.
No matter what the TV says, no matter what science proves and disproves, and no matter what school curriculum teaches, whispering the name of God in the early morning fills me with peace, and Divine remembrance rejuvenates my heart and soul.
God appears in different forms to different people and religions. In some, it is a ruler; to others, it's a kind father; yet to others, it is the abstract existence and the first cause. The form is different, but the effect is the same: peace, exaltation, strength, healing, and the pouring of a new life into the soul. For humans are Divine beings and live by the Divine, just as sheep live by grass.
As the old song proclaims: "Sweet is your name in whatever language it is uttered, and sweet is your path in whatever manner it is trodden." Religions differ in language and manner, yet all are sweet, like a candy shop with arrays of candies; each has different forms, and each is sweet.
For followers of religions all reach out to the same God, all cry to the Divine, and so It responds. God is impartial; God is all-seeing and knower-of-hearts. God sees this man is calling to It, and It visits him, whether he is Christian, Muslim, or a follower of any myriad religions on earth. So you see Christians and Muslims alike have visions of God, while their religions are diagonally opposite in terms of philosophy and eschatology. So you see healing take place in the Catholic church and the Protestant church equally.
God is everywhere and responds to any sincere prayer. Even a man who prays to ghosts or trees may obtain some favors, even though not the highest ones. Any act of devotion and worship is acceptable.
The vastness of the Divine and Its limitless potency is what produces all these different views of God and different religions. God is infinite, but man's mind is finite, and the ocean cannot be poured into a cup.
The mind of each man perceives God in a different way; each perceives one aspect and one ray of this eternal sun. One perceives Its power and becomes a ruler; one perceives Its wisdom and becomes a learned man; one perceives Its kindness and becomes a charitable man; one perceives Its beauty and becomes an artist; and one perceives some aspects of It not possible to explain by word of mouth.
The waves of the ocean reflect the sun, and it is like thousands of suns dancing on water, but there is only one sun, which is high above them. So is true for all these religions and theologies.
I pondered on different religions, and in the beginning saw contradictions. But then attended their temples and churches and began to have the same experience in all. The same solemn feeling in the church when raising hands to Christ also happened in Muslim mosques when bowing to the ground in prostration, and again the same when sitting in a Buddhist temple meditating on Dharma.
The experiences seemed different in the beginning, but converged in the end. It became evident the same entity is behind all. The Jehovah of Jews, the Father of Christians, the Allah of Muslims, the Nirvana of Buddhists, the Sunyata of Zen, the gods and ghosts of primitive tribes are all the same and one. The same reality appears in different mental formats.
Some are deceived by these differences. Some say this religion talks about God and that religion rejects God. But all religions are about God, and about the same God. They are all about worshiping and approaching God, but in different forms and manners. Christians do so by bowing their heads to a cross, and Muslims do so by prostrating to the ground, and Buddhists do so by following the eight-fold path and virtues.
All do the same thing, and are forms and examples of the Divine path that we preach, the perennial and pure religion, the religion of adherence to one true God, the God of wisdom, of light and beauty, and worshiping It and developing virtues which make us like unto It.