Are All Religions the Same?

You hear more and more today that all religions are about the same. Are they? There are basically two types of religions -- those that adhere to a "book of rules; principles; laws; and those that adhere to a higher consciousness. In the first category ae religions like Judaism and Islam. In the second category are religions like Buddhism and it's offsrping, New Age. In this second category would also be ancient mystery religions where you drank something or took something (alcohol and drugs for example) to get you to the "higher plane." It's almost impossible to "fuse" these two categories together as they are so opposite of each other. Either you are trying to keep rules, or you are trying to go to a higher consciousness. Now, you might have a religion that proposes a lot of rules to get you to a higher consciousness, but when the rules fail, which they ultimately will, that particular religion will fail and fade away.

There is also a third category with just one religion in it. This category is a strange one and really cannot be fused together with any other one, although many have tried it in the past and also now in the present. This religion is Christianity where rules don't need to be followed to get into a "higher consciousness;" things done't need to be meditated on, drunk or taken to get you there; keeping rules doesn't get you in "good with God, god, or the gods and goddesses;" but only receiving what the God has provided through His Son Jesus Christ. This is received by faith alone and grace alone--not by rules and laws and mystical practices.

Today, with Georg Frederich Hegel the most popular dead guy in evangelcial seminaries (along with Kirkegaard and certain postmodern philosophers) you have once again a fusion or "synthesis" (as the phlospher Fichte named the Hegel's fusion in his dialectic) of Christianity with (name of other religion, practice, mystery). It has never worked in the past and it won't work now. Let's put out a call to purify Christianity from Buddhist, occultic, Catholic and every other unChristian thought out there, shall we?