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Why Do We Miss Our Common Humanity and Make People Religious Scapegoats?
 "Have you ever thought about the fact that “religious” people all over the world – I mean everyday people, not elite thinkers or those who use religion to push their career and political agendas – care about the same things when they practice their religions?
I’ve been observing that in my formal studies and teaching as a historian of religion for over fifty years. The religious thinkers, philosophers, theologians, and organizational leaders can give us all the great theories, scriptural quotations, logical cosmologies, and great doctrines all they want. And when these experts talk about various religions, that’s usually what they tell us theirs is.
Likewise when people refer to other religions they like to speak in terms of those doctrines when the majority of the people who visit their shrines, temples, mosques, and churches couldn’t care less....
But, everyday people have different ultimate concerns than those who need to keep an “ism” with all its creeds, doctrines, and orthodoxies going to preserve their livelihoods and self-being. To define someone’s religion as what is of ultimate concern to them, not in terms of “the Great Religions” talk, is not only to see where people are but to actually see where people have something very important in common that’s deeper, I think, in the human condition than all the creeds in the world..."
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