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AS DIFFERENT AS are the many religions of the world, in essence they are all the same. It has frequently been said that they are simply different paths all leading to a common center, and this is true. The basic teachings are all the same; all that differs is the method of teaching. There are different rituals, different festivals, and even different names for the gods notice that I say “different names for the gods” rather than, simply, “different gods."
Friedrich Max Muller traced religion back to “an ineradicable feeling of dependence” upon some higher power that was innate in the human mind. And Sir James George Frazer (in The Golden Bough) defines religion as being “a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to Man, which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.”
This higher power—the “Ultimate Deity”—is some genderless force that is so far beyond our comprehension that we can have only the vaguest understanding of its being. Yet we know that it is there and, frequently, we wish to communicate with it. As individuals, we wish to thank it for what we have and to ask it for what we need. How do we do this with such an incomprehensible power?
In the sixth century B.C.E the philosopher Xenophones remarked on the fact that deities are determined by ethnic factors. He pointed out that the black Ethiopians naturally saw their gods as black, whereas the Thracians’ gods were white, with red hair and gray eyes. He cynically commented that if horses and oxen could carve, they would probably represent their gods in animal form!
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