There is only one common factor that unites every religion that has ever existed into one group

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I’m tempted to say “faith”. However, you could name other properties as well, because every religion began as a cult. They all had charismatic leaders, emphasized personal revelations, practiced discretion with sharing their beliefs to outsiders, etc.
 
TEPO said:
Can you guess what it is?
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Actually, there are 3.
  1. Creed
  2. Code
  3. Cult
That is, all religions profess to believe something (creed), proclaim a moral law (code), and express a way of worship (cult).
 
Okay, my terminology was flawed.

What is the only ‘belief’ that all religions share and have faith in. I’ll give you a hint, lad’s. It’s the last part of the 2nd of three. 😃
 
Okay, I’ll give 15 more minutes, first one wins… It’s 12:45. You’ve got until 1:00. 😃
 
Beep. Times up!

It’s LAD. Life after death.

That was the last part of the second sentence of the three sentence paragraph in post number 4…😃

All religions believe in life after death.
 
TEPO said:
Beep. Times up!

It’s LAD. Life after death.

That was the last part of the second sentence of the three sentence paragraph in post number 4…😃

All religions believe in life after death.
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Ah, very punny indeed! 🙂
 
TEPO said:
Beep. Times up!

It’s LAD. Life after death.

That was the last part of the second sentence of the three sentence paragraph in post number 4…😃

All religions believe in life after death.
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Not necessarily. Some religions (such as Jehovah’s Witnesses) don’t believe everyone gets an afterlife.
 
Yes, life after death truly is the one belief that all religions share. It was believed by the Egyptians, Jews, Roman pagans, Greek pagans, Gaulic and Celtic Pagans, Zoroastrians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and many more.

…It’s amazing really.
 
TEPO said:
Yes, life after death truly is the one belief that all religions share. It was believed by the Egyptians, Jews, Roman pagans, Greek pagans, Gaulic and Celtic Pagans, Zoroastrians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and many more.

…It’s amazing really.
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Could you also throw in some type of angelic beings in that mix as something in common?
 
Razanir said:
Not necessarily. Some religions (such as Jehovah’s Witnesses) don’t believe everyone gets an afterlife.
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But they still do believe that life after death is possible. I wonder if there are any ecumenical benefits to concentrating on this common trait.

I also wonder where such an ancient and accepted common belief could come from if it were not simply engraved into our conscience.
 
TEPO said:
Beep. Times up!

It’s LAD. Life after death.

That was the last part of the second sentence of the three sentence paragraph in post number 4…😃

All religions believe in life after death.
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I don’t believe the jewish Sadducees believed in an afterlife. Caiaphas, the high priest was a saudducess.
*According to Josephus, the Sadducees believed that:
There is no fate
God does not commit evil
man has free will; “man has the free choice of good or evil”
the soul is not immortal; there is no afterlife, and
there are no rewards or penalties after death

The Sadducees rejected the belief in resurrection of the dead, which was a central tenet believed by Pharisees and by Early Christians. This often provoked hostilities.[11] Furthermore, the Sadducees rejected the Oral Law as proposed by the Pharisees. Rather, they saw the Torah as the sole source of divine authority.[12] The written law, in its depiction of the priesthood, corroborated the power and enforced the hegemony of the Sadducees in Judean society.*
google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CDsQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSadducees&ei=BIDIUs2_NKPB7Aaz4YGADw&usg=AFQjCNGpTKGL1r0jM24sVsXP6gliOrGG_g&sig2=LwAWegwhGPuNWkjiEwH5og
 
MarcoPolo said:
Could you also throw in some type of angelic beings in that mix as something in common?
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I’m not so sure. I’m under the impression that some Protestant sects believe that angelic beings from the bible are figures of speech for being ‘enlightened’ -not to be taken literally.

…on the other hand, life after death is serious business.

Some Deists might also fall within that category.
 
The Epicureans also didn’t believe in any sort of immortality. They were pretty strange, though. I think they conceived of gods as physical beings.
 
Oreoracle said:
The Epicureans also didn’t believe in any sort of immortality. They were pretty strange, though. I think they conceived of gods as physical beings.
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I would not call the Epicureans a religious group.
 
nothingeasy said:
I don’t believe the jewish Sadducees believed in an afterlife. Caiaphas, the high priest was a saudducess.
*According to Josephus, the Sadducees believed that:
There is no fate
God does not commit evil
man has free will; “man has the free choice of good or evil”
the soul is not immortal; there is no afterlife, and
there are no rewards or penalties after death

The Sadducees rejected the belief in resurrection of the dead, which was a central tenet believed by Pharisees and by Early Christians. This often provoked hostilities.[11] Furthermore, the Sadducees rejected the Oral Law as proposed by the Pharisees. Rather, they saw the Torah as the sole source of divine authority.[12] The written law, in its depiction of the priesthood, corroborated the power and enforced the hegemony of the Sadducees in Judean society.*
google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&ved=0CDsQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSadducees&ei=BIDIUs2_NKPB7Aaz4YGADw&usg=AFQjCNGpTKGL1r0jM24sVsXP6gliOrGG_g&sig2=LwAWegwhGPuNWkjiEwH5og
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Are you suggesting that the Sadducees believed that life after death was not possible at all for anyone ever, or just that most would not experience it?
 
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