nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
I'm sorry, this would take to long to get into... but I guess I could just say that on a lot of traditional levels, practitioners and believers in Animism, Hinduism, Catholic Mass, Hermeticism, Egyptian Magic, Greek Mysteries and Cults, Lutheran Litergies, Shintoism, Chaos Magicians, New Agers, etc etc... are practicing the same fundamentals of ritual based on the same assumptions. It's their values and alignments that are different. Which do happen to be crucial details. Study theurgy, liturgies, etc, and you start to realize that true or not, there are a few fundamental processes these systems work in.
Yes, I agree, I think most religions share certain fundamental characteristics...