One perspective on this topic is that religions may appear different and have different cultural trappings associated with them, but all religions are the same in their essence. Given the role of religion in history, culture ethics, and more, what an important topic!
There are at least two things someone might mean by saying all religions are the same in their essence.
One person would assume there is no supernatural reality and so all religions are equally invalid because they are all basically a cultural construct.
Another person would assume there is only one supernatural reality and all religions get there, and so they are all equally valid.
And which do you think?
All religions are the same because they are all equally true
The parable of the elephant is used to teach that different religions just have different perspectives on the same spiritual reality. But if that is the case, there are challenging questions the story-teller (and the one who holds that position) must answer, such as:...
All religions are the same because they are all equally false
Based on what we know from other disciplines, it appears that all religions are equally invalid because there is no supernatural anyways. What disciplines do you have in mind? Well, science for one. I think most scientists would agree that something supernatural...