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religious as morality is independent from religion. They further claim that his interpretation of world-religion may be the definition of universal morality but not of the universal religion. According to them faith in the supernatural power and religious rituals are the necessary components of religion, in the absence of theses religion will lose its originality, peculiarity and dignity.
My observations regarding the possibility of world-religion and peace is some how affirmative and based on a positive approach towards the religion. This approach in its essential nature is ethical and value based. Hoffiding has rightly defined, "religion as a faith in the conservation of values."10 I think no religion can survive in the absence of virtues and values. According to Prof. Flint, "there can be no religion where feeling and affection are not added" "Mathew Ornold has also defined, "religion as morality touched with emotions' The ethical or the moral aspect of all the particular religions can be accepted as a uniform or common characteristic of all religions. We have seen earlier that the opponents of this view have rejected this idea on two grounds: one is that morality independent from religion and the other is that morality based concept of world-religion can be treated as worldmorality not as world-religion.
As a response to these objections I would like to mention three arguments in support of my thesis:
1. Firstly, if the spiritualistic and ritualistic part of religion creates hatred, violence and conflicts among the human beings and is a danger to world-peace and unity, we should outreadly reject this. We have to seriously think whether;' Theistic and ritualistic religion is acceptable at the cost of world unity and peace ?
2. Secondly, if morality based world-religion is treated only as world morality, then I would like to prefer the practice of this kind of religion without assigning any name to it or call
