United New England wrote:Dogmeat wrote:The thing is though, when we're dealing with things like that - things that are real, but difficult to understand - then despite the inherent difficulty of these topics, over time experts begin to converge on consensus. Quantum mechanics is tricky and counter-intuitive, but vitally nobody who studies particles these days really disputes that, "this - apparently - is the way particles behave."
That's the opposite of what happens when it comes to God or religion. The "experts" only diverge. If they were all studying the same thing from different angles, they'd converge towards similar conclusions. But they don't.
Actually, many religions around the world share important ideas about morality and spirituality. Mystics is particular tend to demonstrate similarities regardless of culture. Of course they sometimes disagree, but people aren’t perfect.
Two things:
1) Humans being human are going to automatically share some ideas about morality. We all have the same intrinsic social instincts. Having said that,
2) Cultures tend to be pretty divergent unless and until they rub up against one another. The Mesoamericans didn't move towards monotheism at all, and didn't approach a deeper knowledge of God's love and the oneness of being so much as they moved towards, "Blood for Huītzilōpōchtli!"