The Inherent Commonality of World Religions

For hundreds of years, the greatest subject for debate has always been an argument of faith: “My God is better than your God.” Adults turn into children when it comes to religion, arguing over the smallest details and bickering over events that occurred more than two thousand years ago. Even denominations of the same religion can’t get their stories straight, creating division over the interpretation of a text that is obscure to begin with.

When it comes down to it, all religions have something in common: they are all about the celebration of faith. Whether you worship one deity or many, or whether you accept the possibility of reincarnation should not be a reason for fighting. Taking joy in the differences among peoples and nations should be an object of beauty, because our differences are what make us unique from one another.

The real fact is that none of us knows what happens to us in the afterlife, and that is the major source of our divisions. Will we go to heaven or hell, and who will we meet when we get there? Since no one has ever died and returned, we can’t possibly know what will happen after death, and I can’t for the life of me understand why it creates so much controversy.

The definition of a religion is the ardent belief in something that cannot be proven to exist. No one in the world has the right to tell you what or how to believe, so why the arguments?

When we trace religions back to their origins, we find that most of them began according to the same theory. Religions are used to describe creation, the afterlife, and the values and morals that a society should adopt in order to remain in good favor with the Powers That Be.

The Basic Characteristics of all Religion

Creation 

According to Christianity and Judaism, the world was created in seven days by God, who is the only deity that matters. They take their beliefs from the first chapter of the Bible, Genesis, which chronologues the beginnings of the world.