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Originally Posted by Flames_Gimp
You make good points, my point is they're all BS, sure there are differences but they are all made up.
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I agree, at least in terms of most of the factual claims, and I'd agree on many of the ethical claims too. But even if literally everything in every religion was a lie (that is, Jesus and Muhammad and Moses were made up entirely out of someone's imagination and never existed, and every word in every book is a lie), that would not make the religions equal in any relevant way.
If I make up one story whose explicit moral lesson is that you should be kind to other people regardless of who they are, and another story whose explicit moral lesson is that you should kill people who don't look like you on sight like the North Sentinelese, it's pretty clear that those are not equivalent philosophies even though the underlying narratives may both be made up and thus equally false.