Rev. John Dear has this up on Sister Anne Montgomery, and her work for peace.
I was raised to believe that peace would only be attained if we were all Christians. After studying Buddhism, Hinduism, Tao and Confucious in college, I discovered that all religions said the same thing–they all say, in so many words, “Do unto others as you would have done unto you.” All of them say it…so in my view, it isn’t that we should all have the same way that we worship, but that we actually follow that simple sentence.
I think peace will only be attained when we put it into action…not as easy as it seems…it takes actively thinking about it with every action/every decision we make–and not believing that we all have to have the same religion. I truly believe that we are individuals led along a certain path and those experiences along that path lead us to our spirituality–and no one has a right to interfere with that or impose their own beliefs upon another. That’s just wrong to me.