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[–]ActuallyNot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Right. But if one of the religions were a product of divine inspiration and not "the crowd", you'd expect it to pop up in geographically diverse regions. Which would mean that "the crowd" should already have it in more than one place.

But we never see Islam or Christianity or Hinduism or Shinto or Buddhism popping up anywhere except where the already faithful have travelled.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No, but you do see the same divine revelations everywhere. There's always an evil polytheistic camp in support of the natural order, and there's always a spiritual monotheistic "gnostic" camp. There's always divine judgement and reincarnation, which the former group supports and the latter opposes along with the world itself. These two groups share very similar concepts all over the world, even the native Americans had them before the pilgrims showed up. But both of these are usually only a very small sliver of society, the rest forming an organized religion based on their ideas.

If you consider what some of the gnostic sects said, things will suddenly start making a lot more sense. It's even hidden in the media, along with prophecies (most famously 9/11). I don't know whether someone is trying to tell us something or of they think it's funny how they can hide the truth right before our eyes. But it's there.

[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, but you do see the same divine revelations everywhere. There's always an evil polytheistic camp in support of the natural order, and there's always a spiritual monotheistic "gnostic" camp.

Surely there's no spiritual monotheistic camp in Polynesia or pre-columbian America?

There's always divine judgement and reincarnation

Fair call. I can't think of a religion without some form of afterlife, where it is at least possibly affected by how you lived. I wonder if that is a constant theme.

It's even hidden in the media, along with prophecies (most famously 9/11).

What?

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Monotheism pops up everywhere. But genuine monotheists are very rare because it goes against human nature. They tend to be anti-world basically.

Look up all the television that predicted 9/11. There's lots of gnostic themes hidden in it too.