Today, on a global level there are three major religious influences: Mohammedan, Siddhartan, and Yeshuan (it's secularizing to use their real names, reminding us that they were historically human like the rest of us). Of course there are variations, each deriving from a large number of other influences, but these three main influences are what brought them all into synthesis according to what they have in common.
Their main difference lies in their degree of anthropomorphization: Christianity is the most anthropomorphic, seeing God as a benevolent guide; Buddhism is the most abstract, seeing God as the oneness of cosmic consciousness; and Islam sees God as something in between, a determining force of intention. Buddhism is the most individualist, internal, Christianity the most collectivist, external. Concrete and abstract, yin and yang — eternal light on the one hand and void on the other. Whatever truth there may or may not be in them, the confluence of these religious paradigms in a globalised world will shape the future of the human species.
What we saw last century, we now see again in a different context: then, it was nationality that divided people. Now, in a more globalised world, it's culture, and the dangers are just as great. The Mohammedan influence has the most friction with others because of the way it's squeezed in between the other two, and with global warming, it'll be squeezed out: as the Middle East becomes increasingly dependent on the rest of the world, this will force Islam into dialogue with the other religions until the boundaries between the religions blur.
With increasing interaction between the religious, they will keep taking many of their more specific dogmas less and less serious and retain only a more general essence of the religion, but the one thing they will always draw from their tradition is the central concept of divinity: as either a being, force, or concept that is omnipotent and benevolent. As these religions evolve, they will be reduced to this fundamental core. These ideas can't be reconciled in the context of their religion, and will only debouch into a more nuanced paradigm in the wider realm of philosophy.
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