Are all religions the same, basically guilt but with different holidays?

Answer 1

I agree with that.
The essence of religion seems to be that we want some big Body to think for us. It's so much more comfortable if we don't need to make awkward choices. But in exchange "they" keep telling us how wrong we live. And then we can repent again.

Answer 2

almost no religions are based on the concept of guilt, although most of us do have different holidays. just because the religion you encounter the most seems to you to be a "guilt religion" doesn't mean the thousands of completely different religions out there are the same.

Answer 3

No, and I'll give you 3 good examples:

A)Christianity believes in love, and doing good works.

B)Muslems Koran actually teaches its OK to kill, rape, pillage as long as its not from your own tribe. (Don't believe me? Then why hasn't a single Muslem said anything about killing children or bombings? Not a SINGLE WORD OF REGRET!)

C)The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster ("FSM")- well here is the Wikipedia's short defintion ok?

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a parody religion founded in 2005 by physics graduate Bobby Henderson to protest the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. In an open letter on his website, Henderson professes belief in a supernatural Creator that resembles spaghetti and meatballs called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and calls for Pastafarianism to be taught in science classrooms, essentially invoking a reductio ad absurdum argument against the teaching of intelligent design.[1][2]

Followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) call themselves Pastafarians, a portmanteau of pasta and Rastafarian


Now, no mater how you look at this, these religions have NOTHING at all in common- theres no guilt in eating your "God" of pasta is there? Nor is there guild in eating Christ (A form of canibalism!) in the form of the Euchrist (Catholic) or Communion (Protestant) beliefs?

Muslems say if you're caught with alcohol, you are to be killed. So much for drinking the wine of communion eh?

The bottom line is, NO to answer your quesition

Answer 4

Absolutely not! You have to get away from those Christians that beat you over the head with your guilt all the time! Find a church that believes that you can be forgiven, set free, filled with joy and no longer walking in condemnation. I would have never made it in my Christian walk if I'd stayed put in The First Church of the Condemned.

Answer 5

...No, they are not all the same as you suggest.
...Religion is man's attempt to make himself right with God.
...Christianity is God reaching down to man in his need, and providing salvation in Jesus Christ.
...1. Christianity is the "DONE" faith. In 1 Corinthians 15 we read,
"3 For I passed on to you first of all what I also had received, that Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for our sins in accordance with [what] the Scriptures [foretold],
4 That He was buried, that He arose on the third day as the Scriptures foretold,
...Christianity is based on the finished work of Christ - what He has already done, and we are called to trust in Him alone for salvation. When He died, Jesus said, "It is finished", meaning the debt is paid, or paid in full. The Bible says, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved."
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2. All others faiths are "DO" faiths - that is, they count on some type of works-based salvation program, to become right with God, whatever they think they can do to get right with God.
...The Bible says, "by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified".
...Proverbs 14:12 says, "There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

Answer 6

Some are crazier than others, like the Church of Latter-day-Saints and their insistence that Jesus and Lucifer are brothers, and that all Mormons can become Gods.

Answer 7

Some religions try to keep the black man down

Answer 8

Religions are different but GOD is the same---

Answer 9

LOL
good one
yes I guess that is all the basis of religion.
So the preacher can have his big fancy house and car.
bratty kids
homely wife
sexy mistress
hookers
drugs
booze
STD's
should I go on?

Answer 10

Nope its not all the same. theres different believes in each religion. But they do have one thing in common, and that is they believe in a higher being....