#make itstop

ALL RELIGIONS ARE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME.

As different as the many religions are in this world; they are all essentially the same. It has been said frequently that they are just different paths leading to a common center, and this is true. The basic teachings are all the same; all that differs is the method in which they are taught. There are different rituals, different festivals, and even different names for the gods!

Friedrich Max Muller* traced religion back to “an ineradicable feeling of dependence” upon some higher power that was innate to the human mind. And Sir James George Frazer*(in The Golden Bough) defines religion as being “a propitiation, or conciliation of powers superior to Man, which are believed to direct and control nature and human life.”

In the sixth century BCE the philosopher Xenophones* remarked on the fact that deities are determined by ethnic factors. For example; the black Ethiopians naturally saw their deities as black; whereas the Thracians saw theirs as white with red hair and grey eyes. He also made a comment that’s pretty fun to think about, in my opinion; “If horses and Oxen could carve, they’d probably see their gods in animal form!

”Friedrich Max Müller (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmaks ˈmʏlɐ]; 6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic disciplines of Indian studies and religious studies ('science of religion', German: Religionswissenschaft).[3] Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology. The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations, was prepared under his direction. He also promoted the idea of a Turanian family of languages.”-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Müller#Anti-Christian

”...accusations had already led to Müller's exclusion from the Boden chair in Sanskrit in favour of the conservative Monier Monier-Williams. By the 1880s Müller was being courted by Charles Godfrey Leland, medium Helena Blavatsky, and other writers who were seeking to assert the merits of "pagan" religious traditions over Christianity…”-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Müller#Anti-Christian

“Sir James George Frazer (1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion. His most famous work, The Golden Bough (1890), documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science.”-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_George_Frazer#Theories_of_Religion_and_Cultural_Evolution

“Among the most influential elements of the third edition of The Golden Bough is Frazer's theory of cultural evolution and the place Frazer assigns religion and magic in that theory. Frazer's theory of cultural evolution was not absolute and could be reversed, but sought to broadly describe three (or possibly, four) spheres through which cultures were thought to pass over time. Frazer believed that, over time, culture passed through three stages, moving from magic, to religion, to science. Frazer's classification notably diverged from earlier anthropological descriptions of cultural evolution, including that of Auguste Comte, because he claimed magic was both initially separate from religion and invariably preceded religion. He also defined magic separately from belief in the supernatural and superstition, presenting an ultimately ambivalent view of its place in culture.”-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_George_Frazer#Theories_of_Religion_and_Cultural_Evolution

Xenophon of Athens ( 430 BC[2] – 354 BC) was an Athenian historian, philosopher, and soldier. Xenophon became commander of the Ten Thousand at about 30, with noted military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodgesaying of him, “the centuries since have devised nothing to surpass the genius of this warrior.” He established the precedent for many logistical operations and was among the first to use flanking maneuvers and feints. Briefly a student of Socrates, Xenophon is best known for his historical writings (late-5th and early-4th centuries BC), in such works as  Anabasis and Hellenica, which covered the final seven years and the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), literally a direct continuation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War from Thucydides’ final sentence. The Hellenica ended in 362 BC with the decisive second Battle of Mantinea the end of Spartan dominance of the Hellenic world.”-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon

With this being said; your religion is NOT, and will NEVER BE, the “one true way.” I’m sick and tired of hearing this from my own family, and strangers I meet at work.