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Originally Posted by sleepy jack
Don't you think the ability to be so selective with religions says something about its validity? It's not like all religion are just a different path to heaven (I'm using heaven to refer to whatever the climax of the religion is) or different paths to different heavens but rather that there is one true path to the one true heaven. So if we had some internal compass telling us which one was correct wouldn't everyone be of the same faith? And if it's merely pointing to which religion is right for you personally, then doesn't that have more to do with your own personality and upbringing as opposed to the validity of the religion?
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I think that different religions manifest the same universal truths about the nature of transcendental reality in different ways, which is to say that, yes there really is more than one path to "heaven".
Yes a lot of the primary distinctions between religions are cultural and often one's chosen religion is a direct result of one's upbringing, though that's not always the case.
The unfortunate truth about religion is that spiritual truths are often hidden within culturally or mythologically inspired allegory which makes it hard, especially for the average zealot to make the distinction between spiritual truth and the peripheral structure in which that truth is embedded.