Mr Khan said:
It's somewhat incorrect to assert that. Some modern religions are really based on "belief," moreso than the old mythologies are, in that you have to really "believe" the religion for it to impact you; namely Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. Confucianism and Daoism are more philosophies than religions, while Shinto, Hindu, and, i would argue, Judaism, are more mythological in their focus (though Hinduism and Judaism have adopted more elements of the "faiths")
With the three "faiths" (Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism to a point), it was about "the way to eternal salvation has been revealed to mankind, and ye shall participate in it or risk eternal damnation," the Chinese religions just make the simpler claim that "this is the best way to live in harmony with the world," and the "mythological" religions are more like "this is how the world and the cosmos are," and are more impersonal and based on a perceived cosmological history
Greek, Roman, and Norse mythologies were very much like Hinduism, Shinto, and Judaism, Judaism just being unique in that its mythology bred two of the big revelatory religions, where Mohammed and Jesus made competing claims regarding how man shall receive the favor of God, whereas Judaism doesn't really address salvation or even promise much about heaven or hell (note also that Judaism in ancient times had no provision for conversion into the religion, Judaism was bound to the Jewish ethnicity strictly), and really "Christian mythology" is really just a subset of Jewish mythology, that this guy existed who was the son of Yahweh and who was crucified, died, and rose again, but the "myth" of Jesus is not what being a Christian is all about, as it's about knowledge and participation in the divine philosophy that Jesus preached.
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