All Religions are paths to god

It seems to me that all religions are paths to god, which means that all religions are equal in a sense.
Thoughts?

no necescarlly budisim doesn't belive in a god and it is one of the top five religons in the world, they belive in enlightenment. also some people could descrpe atisem as a religon but that doesn't belive in a god so umm yeah im going to have to politlly disagree with that statment.

Not all religions entitle a deity. Buddhism (as eliasan mentioned) and Taoism for example.

why is God limited to religions with a deity? If God is the existance of faith, regardless of your interpertations, i do believe all religions are the same.
well except for religions who idolize death, destruction, hatred. etc.
God to me is the fact of life, the ability to will, my guiding conscience.

I would argue that all the religions, including the destructive ones, are paths to something higher than oneself. In Buddhism it's enlightenment, in Christianity it's God, Islam is Allah, Satanism is Satan and so forth. You might not agree with what that person is trying to get close to by following their path but they are on a path of some sort.

all things are paths to something i agree. but beliefs that are not grounded in the idea of good will and humility arent on the same path to the same god. woudl you agree?
however i do feel that ALL religions that promote self worth and peace are of the same god. woudl you agree with that?

I would say that no religion is on the path to the same god as any other religion. I think everyone has their own personal god that they strive to reach throughout their life. While organized religion provides archetypes and ideals for people to strive for, they are only generalizatoins. Everyone takes those ideas and processes them on their own to come up with their own unique deity. I would say that all those religions founded on the so-called virtues are leading towards similar gods, while the same holds true for the so-called vices.

so you believe God is the whole religion. God is every aspect of belief that is caused by analysis and study of the word? i highly doubt that God is not attained purely in this form. if God is not the whole religion and just the ideal moral guidance and if religions all hold this same ideal then what is different from their gods?

not all of them ask that they be worship/belived in they just let the people know that they are there the people then chose what to do.

No I don't believe that God is a religion. I think that all religions, both personal and corporate, are pathways to some deity or ideal that we consider to be higher than ourselves. The deities and ideals that each person strives to attain, are all unique in that they all serve that person specifically. No matter how much the corporate religions like to spout it, there is no handy one-size-fits-all god. Every goal is personalized for the person chasing after it.

i must wholeheartedly agree. there is no singular god, there is a god for every single one of us, or if not a god then an ideal. i disagree with navin that a religion wihtout a deity is a path to god, because the term god means a deity.

the difference between the god of the assorted religions is the the difference in their moral guidance. there are certain things that are done in one religion and not in others. not all religions have the same ideals.

All religions are paths of their own.

Interesting. If all religions are simply paths, they must all lead somewhere. Paths by nature have to be a path to something. So could we perhaps say that religions are paths that lead to other paths? Or is there an end point that these paths eventually reach?

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So could we perhaps say that religions are paths that lead to other paths?

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Not really. Most religions don't lead to other religions.

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Or is there an end point that these paths eventually reach?

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Yes as that is the nature of paths although some maybe more or less travelled, some confusing and some dangerous. But these paths do not all end in the same place

that is dependant on the subject allowing these paths to exist. the ideal end of any path regarding religion is to mindfully exist as a peaceful person, regardless of where that ends up. Goals and Products are two very different things but the product is attained through strive for a goal even if the goal isnt reached.
The whole point i guess im trying to make is that all religions, regardless of where their followers end up have the same goal. to find god, either as a diety or a state of mind. i just feel that God, which can not be proven to exist, is simply the need to answer and cope with the stress of life. so to me every God is the same God because there is no such thing as a defintion for God.