omnism

Contemporary usage has modified "belief in all religions" to refer more to an acceptance of the legitimacy of all religions. The Oxford English Dictionary elaborates that an omnist believes "in a single transcendent purpose or cause uniting all things or people". Omnists interpret this to mean that all religions contain varying elements of a common truth, that omnists are open to potential truths from all religions.

The Oxford dictionary defines an omnist as "a person who believes in all faiths or creeds; a person who believes in a single transcendent purpose or cause uniting all things or people, or the members of a particular group of people".{{cite web|publisher=Oxford dictionaries |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/omnist|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705180307/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/omnist|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 5, 2018|title=omnist}} Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, considered the first Deist, argued that all religions were true.{{cite book | last=Idinopulos | first=T.A. | last2=Wilson | first2=B.C. | title=What Is Religion?: Origins, Definitions, and Explanations | publisher=Brill | series=Numen Book Series | year=1998 | isbn=978-90-04-11022-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9xd5pTt82aEC&pg=PA144 | access-date=2023-02-12 | page=144}} In the poem All Religions are One, William Blake professed that every religion originated from God's revelation.{{cite book | last=Summerfield | first=H. | title=A Guide to the Books of William Blake for Innocent and Experienced Readers: With Notes on Interpretive Criticism 1910-1984 | publisher=C. Smythe | series=Colin Smythe Publication | year=1998 | isbn=978-0-86140-408-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XEJaAAAAMAAJ | access-date=2023-01-18 | page=}} Henry Stubbe and other Socinians synthesized a form of Muhammadan Christianity.{{cite book | last=Shah | first=Z.A. | title=Islam and The English Enlightenment: The Untold Story | publisher=Claritas Books | year=2022 | isbn=978-1-80011-984-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ec5yEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT110 | access-date=2023-02-18 | page=110}} Unitarian Universalism, which grew out of the Protestant Reformation,{{cite book | last=Bramadat | first=P.A. | title=The Church on the World's Turf: An Evangelical Christian Group at a Secular University | publisher=Oxford University Press | series=Religion in America | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-19-535059-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3p98dZaaWOAC&pg=PA152 | access-date=2023-01-16 | page=152}} practices omnist beliefs.{{cite book | last=Davis | first=H.A. | title=Gambling With Your Soul: What Is Your Best Bet? | publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers | year=2021 | isbn=978-1-6667-0185-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=stEvEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT106 | access-date=2023-01-16 | page=106}} Other notable interfaith organizations include the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples{{cite book | last=Andrus | first=M. | title=Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr. | publisher=Parallax Press | year=2021 | isbn=978-1-946764-91-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I8YbEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 | access-date=2023-02-12 | page=46}} and The Parliament of the World's Religions was the first organization with the goal to unite all religions.{{cite book | last=Lehmann | first=K. | last2=Brodeur | first2=P. | title=Talking Dialogue: Eleven Episodes in the History of the Modern Interreligious Dialogue Movement | publisher=De Gruyter | series=KAICIID – Beyond Dialogue Series | year=2021 | isbn=978-3-11-052917-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l4cgEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 | access-date=2023-02-17 | page=22}}

• Philip James Bailey, who first coined the term.{{cite book|author=Herbert F. Tucker|title=Epic : Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910: Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CXeybhiRmagC&pg=PA344|date=17 April 2008|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-923298-7|page=344}}
• Kyrie Irving, who stated that he is an omnist in response to condemnation of his promotion of the documentary Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America.{{cite tweet |author=Hélà |user=KyrieIrving |number=1586419512538451968 |date=29 October 2022 |title=I am an OMNIST and I meant no disrespect to anyone's religious beliefs. The "Anti-Semitic" label being pushed on me is unjustified and does not reflect the reality or truth I live in daily. I embrace and want to learn from all walks of life and religions. Hélà🤞🏾♾ |language=en |access-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129170129/https://twitter.com/KyrieIrving/status/1586419512538451968 |archive-date=29 November 2022 |url-status=live}}{{cite tweet |last=Tsai |first=Joe |author-link=Joe Tsai |user=joetsai1999 |number=1586196102126391296 |date=29 October 2022 |title=I'm disappointed that Kyrie appears to support a film based on a book full of anti-semitic disinformation. I want to sit down and make sure he understands this is hurtful to all of us, and as a man of faith, it is wrong to promote hate based on race, ethnicity, or religion. |language=en |access-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221127231318/https://twitter.com/joetsai1999/status/1586196102126391296 |archive-date=27 November 2022 |url-status=live}}

• Bahá'í Faith
• Blind men and an elephant
• Religious pluralism
• Syncretism
• Universalism

• {{cite book|title=Confronting the Idols of Our Age|author=Thomas P. Power|chapter=6 Omnism|pages=30|isbn=978-1532604331|publisher=Wipf and Stock|date=February 20, 2017|series=Wycliffe Studies in Gospel, Church, and Culture}}
• {{cite web | last=Ruoch | first=Beni | title=Omnism: The One World Religion | website=Goodreads | date=2022-06-27 | url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/98569216-omnism-the-one-world-religion | access-date=2023-02-19}}

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• "Omnist", Oxford English Dictionary, draft revision June 2004, retrieved October 6, 2005.

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