ONE GOD OF THREE RELIGIONS?

Course they are and it’s all down to the increase in fundamentalism due to the continued encroachment of secularisation.If you look through the lens of comparative mythology you will see the same stories and themes emerging time after time after time. You will find in disparate cultures stories of great beasts being slain by man (man’s conquest over nature) and so on. There is little point in arguing which version of the dragon myth is the real one because they all tell the same story at their core. It similar to having three brands of vanilla ice-cream. You may prefer one over the other , either because you consider that it tastes better or that was the brand your mother always used to buy, but in the end they are all vanilla, so why bother to argue the toss?All three religions at their core are focused round the same entity and it’s only the trimmings and tales that differ. But the faithful will always argue in desperation to protect their 'territory', and it’s because of that tendency to fight for what they see as their ‘patch’ we see the problems and antagonism that this generates. It is painfully clear to see that all three have many large areas of mutual overlap. With such overlaps conflict is inevitable when it comes to a theological turf war. (Which sadly spills out in to the real world as we see in the middle east, just look at Jerusalem.The three religions have so much in common yet chose to focus on their differences and that is what is so fundamentally sad.This message has been edited by ohnhai, 04 March 2005 11:05 AM