oh, silly me.. I came to see the continued conversation, and now see how I messed up my paraphrasing - good grief. I even looked it over before I hit submit, but occasionaly cant see the forest for the trees... 

The saying was meant to go 'When one door CLOSES, another opens' That would have made more sense in context of what you started and I was trying to support. 

Anyhow, as you more clearly stated - interesting about seeing things through a different lense, ending with the same view - just what does that mean? I see two possibilities now, and of course there'd be more. 

First I believe it highlights traveling a different 'path' and yet journeying to the same 'end'. What if that could be generally applied to people of different faiths? Wonder how that thinking would impact world thoughts on our sameness/differences. If, at the end of it all we were all in the same place? Does that make sense? 

Secondly, people not following a specific faith can still be 'good' people. I do get the feeling that some people of faith judge others 'goodness' in terms of their faith or lack there of. Of course, I never have that feeling from you, and the way you present your thoughts on faith have opened me up to seeing that not all people of faith are 'judgemental sheep'  :-) In the past, I would have closed my mind and moved on. That says a lot about you personally - but one compliment in a day is enough haha.