Religions
Personally, I believe that religions are nothing more than philosophies with cultures stapled to them. For example, if you strip Christianity, Judaism and Islam of all their cultural references, you end up with something similar. Any mutations between the philosophies could have been caused by Chinese Whispers or independent philosophical developments. If you dissect them on a deeper level, you can also see connections between these 3 religions and Buddhism, Wicca, etc.

Personally, I came to the belief that everyone should invent their own religion. I later discovered that this was similar to the philosophy of Taoism.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 8 May 2008, 11:34, Reply)