No one hates a particular religious group quite like the people whose own religion is 99.9% identical to theirs (e.g. Catholic vs. Protestant)

58008@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

No one hates a particular religious group quite like the people whose own religion is 99.9% identical to theirs (e.g. Catholic vs. Protestant)

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 3 days ago

Then they don’t understand them at all.

There are very foundational differences between them.

I say this as an irreligjous person who’s studied world religions.

They only appear similar when viewed through a very low resolution/highly abstracted perspective.

thallamabond@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

As far as I’m concerned, Religions are categorized first by who their god is so I’d lump these and more together.

Abrahamic Religions: The most prominent Abrahamic religions are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.[3] They—alongside Samaritanism,[4] the Druze faith,[5] the Baháʼí Faith,[3] and the Rastafari movement[3]—all share a common belief in the God of Abraham. Likewise, the Abrahamic religions share similar features distinguishing them from other categories of religions:[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Abrahamic_religions