Yes, the intent is to demonstrate to each individual my knowledge of the tradition(s) with which they are most familiar. In so doing, I am showing them that I have studied the same things they have studied and I don’t think it was a waste of either of our time to study that particular tradition, -ism, person, etc.
This is meant to keep the peace with respect to their ego. When people are confronted with information that suggests they have spent some amount of their time in this life unwisely, they tend to get defensive and irrational. That’s the ego.
Dogmatists won’t like me because dogmatists are closed minded and defended by invincible ignorance, i.e. “All I need is (Jesus/the Bible/the Quran/etc.)” Their unwillingness to study other traditions leaves them mired in darkness. They can’t see the connections because they only see part of the puzzle. It’s like they’re looking at the puzzle through a microscope…tunnel vision kind of a thing.
My goal is to become deeply “multi-traditional” in my religious and esoteric knowledge so that no matter who I happen to be communicating with at any given point in time, I should be able to “speak their language” and, in doing so, establish bona fides with them, build some rapport, and pacify their ego.
The goal is to show each individual the bridges that exist between the religious tradition to which they’re most attached and all the other religious traditions out there. The goal is to unify people. It sure would be great if we could bring about an end to religious wars, just for starters. It would be great if everyone started doing past life regression and we could rediscover our own past.
There’s lots of things we could do if we got on the same page.
I want THAT future for humanity, our neighbors cohabitating with us here on Earth, and Earth itself.