Man has been worshipping God for thousands of years, and will continue for more thousand of years as long as earth is revolving and sun rises. For God is embedded and branched into man's soul and psycho like veins into 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 provides and disproves, and no matter what school curriculum teaches, whispering the name of God in the early morning fills me with peace, and His 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 inpouring of a new life into the soul. For humans are Divine beings and live by Divine just as sheeps 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 sweetshop with arrays of candies, each of different forms and each is sweet.
For followers of religions reach out to the same God, all cry to Him and so He responds. God is impartial, He is all-seeing and knower-of-hearts. He sees this man is calling to Him and He visits him, whether he is christian, muslim, or follower of any myriad religions on earth. So you see christian and muslims both have visions of God and their religions are diagonally opposite. So you see healings take place both in catholic church and protestant church equally.
God is everywhere and responds to any sincere prayer. Even a man who prays to ghosts or trees may obtain some favours, even though not the highest ones. Any act of devolution and worship is acceptable.
The vastness of Divine and His limitless potencies is what produces all these different forms 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 His power and becomes a ruler, one perceives His wisdom and becomes a learned man, one perceives His kindness and becomes a charitable man, one perceives his beauty and becomes an artist, and one perceives some aspects of Him not utterable 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, 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 ground in prostration, and again the same when sitting in a buddhist temple meditating on the vision of Buddha.
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 christian, 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 worshipping and approaching God, but in different forms and manners. Christian do so by bowing head to cross, and Muslims do so by prostrating to ground and Buddhists do so by following the eightfold path and developing the eight virtues.
All do the same thing. And are forms and examples of the perennial and pure religion, the religion of adherence to one true God, the God of wisdom, of light and beauty, and worshipping Him by developing virtues which make us like unto Him.