Similarities between religions...?

Question

Can you tell me similarities between different religions?
I want to know similiar stories, gods, and whatever else there is. For example, there's both creation and flood stories from different religions. I want you to tell me as much as you possibly can about this.
Whoever comes up with the most similarities gets 10 pts. Good luck.

You don't have to go into detail. Just mention similiar stories, beliefs, etc...

Answer 1

Too many to list but I will find a link.

The flood story is Sumerian by the way.

Screw it. here are the details of a few of the more similar ones:

Attis of Phrygia
--Attis was born on December 25 of the Virgin Nana.
--He was considered the savior who was slain for the salvation of mankind.
--His body as bread was eaten by his worshippers
--His priests were “eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven.”
--He was both the Divine Son and the Father.
--On “Black Friday,” he was crucified on a tree, from which his holy blood ran down to redeem the earth.
--He descended into the underworld.
--After three days, Attis was resurrected on March 25 (as tradition held of Jesus) as the “Most High God.

--Dionysus was born of a virgin on December 25 and, as the Holy Child, was placed in a manger.
--He was a traveling teacher who performed miracles.
--He “rode in a triumphal procession on an ***.”
--He was a sacred king killed and eaten in an eucharistic ritual for fecundity and purification.
--Dionysus rose from the dead on March 25.
--He was the God of the Vine, and turned water into wine.
--He was called “King of Kings” and “God of Gods.”
--He was considered the “Only Begotten Son,” Savior,” “Redeemer,” “Sin Bearer,” Anointed One,” and the “Alpha and Omega.”
--He was identified with the Ram or Lamb.
--His sacrificial title of “Dendrites” or “Young Man of the Tree” intimates he was hung on a tree or crucified.

--Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Merion December 25 in a cave/manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men.
--His earthly father was named “Seb” (“Joseph”).
--He was of royal descent.
--At at 12, he was a child teacher in the Temple, and at 30, he was baptized having disappeared for 18 years.
--Horus was baptized in the river Eridanus or Iarutana (Jordan) by “Anup the Baptizer” (“John the Baptist”), who was decapitated.
--He had 12 desciples, two of who were his “witnesses” and were named “Anup” and “Aan” (the two “Johns”).
--He performed miracles, exorcised demons and raised El-Azarus (“El-Osiris”), from the dead.
--Horus walked on water.
--His personal epithet was “Iusa,” the “ever-becoming son” of “Ptah,” the “Father.” He was thus called “Holy Child.”
--He delivered a “Sermon on the Mount” and his followers recounted the “Sayings of Iusa.”
--Horus was transfigured on the Mount.
--He was crucified between two thieves, buried for three days in a tomb, and resurrected.
--He was also the “Way, the Truth, the Light,” “Messiah,” “God’s Anointed Son,” “the “Son of Man,” the “Good Shepherd,” the “Lamb of God,” the “Word made flesh,” the “Word of Truth,” etc.
--He was “the Fisher” and was associated with the Fish (“Ichthys”), Lamb and Lion.
--He came to fulfill the Law.
--Horus was called “the KRST,” or “Anointed One.”
--Like Jesus, “Horus was supposed to reign one thousand years.”

Mithra of Persia
--Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25 in a cave, and his birth was attended by shepherds bearing gifts.
--He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
--He had 12 companions or disciples.
--Mithra’s followers were promised immortality.
--He performed miracles.
--As the “great bull of the Sun,” Mithra sacrificed himself for world peace.
--He was buried in atomb and after three days rose again.
--His resurrection was celebrated every year.
--He was called “the Good Shepherd” and identified with both the Lamb and the Lion.
--He was considered the “Way, the Truth and the Light,” and the “Logos,” [Word] “Redeemer,” “Savior” and “Messiah.”
--His sacred day was Sunday, the “Lord’s Day,” hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ.
--Mithra had his principal festival on what was later to become Easter.
--His religion had a eucharist or “Lord’s Supper,” at which Mithra said, “He who shall nto eat of my body nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him, shall not be saved.”
--“His annual sacrifice is the Passover of the Magi, a symbolical atonement of pledge of moral and physical regeneration.”

Furthermore, the Vatican itself is built upon the papacy of Mithra, and the Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version it replaced . . .
. . . Virtually all of the elements of the Catholic ritual, from miter to wafer to altar to doxology, are directly taken from earlier Pagan mystery religions.

Zoroaster/Zarathustra
--Zoroaster was born of a virgin and “immaculate conception by a ray of divine reason.”
--He was baptized in a river.
--In his youth he astounded wise men with his wisdom.
--He was tempted in the wilderness by the devil.
--He began his ministry at age 30.
--Zoroaster baptized with water, fire and “holy wind.”
--He cast out demons and restored the sight to a blind man.
--He taught about heaven and hell, and revealed mysteries, including resurrection, judgment, salvation and the apocalypse.
--He had a sacred cup or grail.
--He was slain.
--His religion had a eucharist.
--He was the “Word made flesh.”
--Zoroaster’s followers expected a “second coming” in the virgin-born Saoshynt or Savior, who is to come in 2341 CE and begin his ministry at age 30, ushering in a golden age.

Answer 2

1. All have prayer, meditation, or address to a supernatural being.
2. All believe in a non-physical/ spiritual world.
3. All have birth, marriage & death rituals.
4. All have creation myths.
5. All have either a written book or an oral tradition to maintain their beliefs.
6. All believed that at some point in time, the god or gods or some universal/cosmic consciousness was incarnated in human flesh as a person.
7. All have stories of an afterlife to give comfort to the living.
8. All have sacred places or places or worship or places considered holy.
9. All have sacred times, or sacred days or times or seasons considered holy.
10. All have some object or objects of worship or adoration or veneration or of some sacred value.
11. All are products of the human mind/brain.

Answer 3

1. okay all true religions say not to kill or harm any living being.
I'm not talking about satanists or any so -called followings of extremists where people are depraved and practice intolerance because that is called insanity, not religion.

2. all true religions put u on the path to truth, love and knowledge, by teaching compassion, honesty and wisdom.

3. myths in all the religions like the different stories are irrelevant, because all true religions teach u to lead a good decent simple life, so that u don't develop attachments, therefore u will be able to help each other better.

4. all true religions say to be happy and positive, because negativity leads to evilness, or evil-doing.

there are too many different religions with different sects or denominations, to list here, but that is the basis of all true religions.
not one is better than another, it's the type of person that has to find and follow the one that works best for him or her, that's all.

p. s.---it's not religion that is responsible for war--- it's people's misunderstandings of their own as well as other people's religion.

Answer 4

The greatest similarity is that no religion is the correct one, and all religions have got it wrong.

There are many major religions in the world, such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, and so on. Within each major religion there can also be many minor religions. For example, within Christianity there is Catholic, Protestant, Anglican and so on. Within Islam there is Shiite, Sunni etc.

In summary there are many hundreds of different religions in the world all with their devoted believers and followers. Talk to any devout religious person and they will almost emphatically insist that their religion is the right one, it’s fact, and any non-believer is doomed.

Commonsense and logic would suggest that if there was any truthful or factual basis to religion, then only one of these religions could be correct, not all of them. However, in my view, it’s highly unlikely that any of these man-made religions bear any resemblance to fact or the truth, and are more likely to be the result of simplistic human intelligence looking for an escape from reality.

Religion is responsible for the majority of wars, conflict and murder of innocent life since humanity began. There is considerable evidence to classify religion as evil, and talk of religion (Gods etc) should be banned. Because the records prove over and over again throughout humanity that religion is clearly responsible for crimes against humanity, taking part in any religious activity should also be outlawed and made a criminal offence.

The world would be a much happier and peaceful place if religion ceased to exist. Although there are some decent religious believers and preachers, they are unwittingly spreading evil around our world, and that they should simply keep their beliefs and thoughts to themselves in the best interests of humanity, or suffer the consequences for their actions.

People should consider that the world would be like Heaven if religion ceased to exist, but all the believers and preachers have turned the planet into Hell.

Answer 5

I definitely believe that most religions and all of the major religions are talking about the same Infinite One. This is such a huge question that It would take a book to go into it. The best book I know on it, if you seriously want to understand this very important issue, is THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY BY Aldous Huxley. Best wishes and may you be blessed.

Answer 6

ALL RELIGIONS:
HAVE A GOD (or more)
OBEY A CERTAIN SET OF RULES
ALL HAVE ADAM AND EVE


but i want you to know this is not the point. every religion there is BUT Christianity calls for you to do something for that religion. im sorry this is hard to explain. for example, hinduisim calls for you to go on certian days to the temple n you must pray and do certian different things. but in christianity,the lord wants you to just believe that Jesus died on the cross for you and rose up again and went to Heaven. Then, you will have eternal life. Please email me back. I would like to to talk to you more.

Answer 7

... I'd rather not.

The Pagan religions had mainly the same beliefs and creation stories, with different God names.

Christianity just copied every religion before them.

- 16 yo Pagan

Answer 8

since when is this a contest site?

Answer 9

all r similar when ur unbiased.humanity