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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by simonh on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:31PM (#26626206)
>Also, if someone else came up to you from Egypt and believed in an entirely different pantheon you respected their opinion and could see similarities in your own religion.

More than that, they believed each others gods were cultural representations of the same actual gods. After all there is only one sky. It doesn't make any sense to think that our sky god is different from their sky god, or our sun god is different from their sun god, though being gods they can manifest in different forms.

But then it's shocking how many people seem to think that Christians, Jews and Muslims worship different gods. There's only one god of Abraham, which arguably Hindus call Brahman. They're all just names and stories, there's only one reality*.

* citation needed

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by krapp on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:07PM (#26626752)
>More than that, they believed each others gods were cultural representations of the same actual gods.

Ironically, Christianity kind of did the same thing, rather believing everyone else's gods were just demons or sorcerers in league with Satan. In further irony, this led to a lot of syncretism of pagan beliefs and rituals into Christianity.

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