Reply #86: ‘Different’ things?.

[ironbark]

Perhaps ‘Education’…Can’t be all one thing ?…
“Different names”- Kindergarden, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary?
“different books that are deemed authoritative”… Different education for different age/requirements?


Extending as religious/education analogy-
“different books that are deemed authoritative”… The books received in primary school are no less “authoritative”/important than those received in university.

“different mythologies”…Among the Major Living Religious Traditions?...No…Same story told in different ways.

“different rules”… No the ‘Golden Rule’ is universal to all major faiths…only the minor/social rules change in accord with time and place (ie Prohibition on eating pork).

“different, different, different.”

Not at all. An examination of the worlds major faiths that is other than cursory and shallow reveals not only deep/central ‘Golden Rule’ commonality but a sequentiality of teachers that is beyond statistical probability-

Abraham, Moses, Zoroaster, Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Muhammad…….

“Different names”?
Yea…Different teachers at different times using different languages to describe the >same< thing.

Problem is…Athiests demonstrate the same dogged disinterest in the commonalities in religious evolution as Christian fundamentalists demonstrate towards human evolution.

Go figure.