Of Religion and Belief

I speak when there is a need for me to,
Other times I just sit and observe.

Something was brought to my attention recently, the concept of a singular good in a singular world. What was preached was not aimed at propagating the true religion, but instead they were propagating the fact that though there are numerous religions practiced throughout the world, they all promote the same beliefs, the fundamental concepts are that of the same. That all these religious teachings propagate a moral life and that we should do no harm to another person and other things as such.

I am of the opinion that the statement is partially true, I agree to the fact that the fundamentals of which these religions were built on are morally upright and that they preach for the betterment of humanity – the more modern and contemporary of religions I believe are rather focused on a more hedonistic aspect of life whilst teachings in which I consider to be archaic I see to be the vain attempts of men to immortalize themselves and to be remembered.

The fundamentals of what religion preaches, what I believe, is one of a universal concept, but I am of the belief that these religions are not one. The main reason to me believing such is that as much as we would like to believe that religion is one of a universal nature, it is still culturally affected. The concept of morality is one that is tangible and subjective, it differs demographically, hence our believes are shaped to conform to our cultural aspect of life. The belief that religion is a universal constant is an idealistic one to say the least, what happens is that the fundamentals of these religious teachings are preserved yet the fidelity, and the level of rigor in which we follow the doctrine differs demographically.

Such a phenomenon can be seen in various states, when you carefully observe the more rural and conservative states, such doctrine is followed almost closely to the letter, whilst in more urban areas, religion has turned into no more than an all you can eat buffet where you have the luxury of choice as to what you want and don’t want to do, and there is always the extremists in which they practice for more than what is expected of them.

Yet these religions are one and the same, regardless of which religion we are discussing, this is a common phenomenon.

SO are all religions one and the same? I put it to you