Religion - All of these things are not like the others.

[Msterbeau]

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/04/25/separate_truths/?page=full

"At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true. This claim, which reaches back to “All Religions Are One” (1795) by the English poet, printmaker, and prophet William Blake, is as odd as it is intriguing. No one argues that different economic systems or political regimes are one and the same. Capitalism and socialism are so self-evidently at odds that their differences hardly bear mentioning. The same goes for democracy and monarchy. Yet scholars continue to claim that religious rivals such as Hinduism and Islam, Judaism and Christianity are, by some miracle of the imagination, both essentially the same and basically good."

[Rev.Reverence]

Ah...when one studies the schools of thought side by side, one sees the parallels...if you do not look, you will not see.

[torn asunder]

Ah...when one studies the schools of thought side by side, one sees the parallels...if you do not look, you will not see.

agreed - obviously, there are major differences in religions, but i've found that, at their core, they all (or most, at least) have many commonalities in basic philosophy.

it's the differences that create so much uproar.