Necessity of Religious Unification

Young Tyang Chang
June 1971

"The actual is not the true." This is a famous one in a letter written to Barrie, the dearest friend of Robert Louis Stevenson by him. We are inclined to regard scraps of our thoughts or a part of what we have experienced as absolute one and it is true for it to be the basis of our persistence. But asked whether our experience or knowledge is based on the truth, we are diffident.

Since we have different opinions and protests one another and the spiritual decisions through the same experience mutually clash with, there should be any standard to judge, but there has never been found such a standard yet.

Scientific and objective method can hardly be expected to adjust spiritual matters whereas attaching great importance to subjective one, it comes to be out of controlling the external fields. This may be the very reason why man seeks after something above him! It may be the starting point for God to be invited.

It has been long since we thought about God. However, due to the different conceptions about the existence of God and His Providence, there have come to appear various religions and a lot of denominations in one religious sect. Accordingly there is a necessity of religious unification and for the sake of true salvation of mankind, the unification can and should be done by all means.