Huff Post: Richard Schiffman.
The wrong kind of religion convinces its followers that they alone possess the key to Truth. The right kind, according to Vivekananda, helps to make one more compassionate, humbler in the face of the Great Mystery, and tolerant of inevitable human differences. The fact that so many believers (and nonbelievers alike) fail to live up to these exalted ideals should not be allowed to overshadow the liberating message of Oneness which is at the heart of faith.
….All religions conceive a Divine Creative Principle at the root of things, although they call it by different names he said. They unanimously testify that one can commune with this Divinity through prayer and meditation. And the broad ethical principles to love and to forgive, to be generous and kind are also shared by all faiths.
