These are, however, only Abrahamic based religions. There are many others such as Buddhism, Taoism or many Indigenous religions that don’t follow the same template.

All of these are somewhat similar and some depend on what you think about some of the others. It just depends on which denomination or sect you are coming from. The bad thing is that in every one of them YOU have no life. All you have is servitude to something invisible and imaginary, and this is supposed to make you happy.

In a nutshell, jews do not see jesus as the messiah, they are still waiting for this figure to come, they've been waiting for a fucking long time, that should give them a hint or two, but nooooooo! All religions are bullshit!

A good summary for a nutshell. Well done for not including the ones not worth bothering about.

110% correct, and I too would steer clear of anything to do with that totally whacked out Scientology bullshit, just as I do with ALL other religious twaddle and utter 'dickwad' belief systems.

"Jews believe in God but not in a divine Jesus. They're also not really down with the whole Heaven/Hell thing. They believe they were chosen by God because they best personify the moral and ethical behavior God demands." the last sentence is incorrect. the chosen people thing has a single source, and it is that (i am talking from within the jewish belief system now, not from my own belief) god offered abraham, and through him the jewish people, a covenant. abraham had a choice whether or not to accept the covenant. he accepted. i have always thought the term should be "choosing" rather than "chosen" but the "chosen" comes from the choice god made to offer the covenant to the jews. had abraham not accepted, presumably god would've gone on to his second choice. it is not about best personifying the moral and ethical behavior god demands. naturally, the follower of any religion follows that religion believing that is what god wants, so EVERY religion believes that god has chosen them because they best personify the moral and ethical behavior god demands. that is not unique to the jews and therefore cannot be what being the chosen people means. if that is what "chosen people" meant, every religion's followers would be, in its own view, the chosen people.

i'll also add that "chosen people" in terms of judaism means that god gave extra commandments to the jews. i don't know why christians refer to the 10 commandments; jews have 613. i forget how many god demands of nonjews -- and the fact that they have fewer (WAY fewer) commandments, according to judaism, does not make jews superior. it makes them more obligated.

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p.s. judaism also is not defined by NOT believing in the divinity (or necessarily the existence) of jesus (not his real name in any event). judaism is a lot older than christianity, and jesus, if he existed, was jewish.

To be any follower of Jesus you also have to believe judiesm is true, but not follow it yet follow the commandments that you feel like from the old testament.