Misguided souls like this troika and organisations like the OSA need to understand oneness. They need to be able to see the unity despite differences between Deism that believes religion is rational and Fideism that sees reason as an antithesis of faith, Pantheism that sees everything as an all encompassing god and Heresy that’s always in variance with what’s accepted as authoritative. I could go on, but there are 4,200 known and recorded religions. Hinduism with 900 million devotees is still large enough a religion, the third-largest after Christianity’s 2.1 billion believers and Islam’s 1.3 billion adherents. But what about the smaller ones like Tenrikyo (2 million followers) Rastafarianism (800,000), Neopaganism (768,400)? Are majority religions by the power of their numbers and economic clout going to smother these?

This religious one-upmanship is really a prayer to the god of extinction. The real danger for religious extremists like this troika and the OSA is not that their narrow view of religion is going to be crushed by a mantra or a hymn of another religion but that it’s going to be questioned by a greater force that needs peace to survive: the evolution of man into a cosmopolitan being who can appreciate a Hindu mantra as much as a Christian hymn or a Muslim azaan.