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we have no idea they all had the same delusion.
You have no idea that they did, and you have no idea they didn't.
That's why I said before that if you can see how religions rhyme, you can find a core message in all of them. And that, I think, is the truth.
What's your point? That religion is flawed? Then, yes, I agree, that was what I was trying to convey in my original comment.
The exclusivity is a product of man trying to control others. Just look at early Christianity, which was non-hierarchical and gender-equal. It was only later that it was turned into the power structure of Catholicism.
What if their reported experiences are just delusions?
If people across time and space who have sought the answer to the question "What is the nature of the universe and what is the meaning of life" all came to the same delusion, then fuck it, let's all be delusional together because it's apparently inherent to human nature.
I didn't know that about the Australian Aboriginals, I'll have to learn about them. And what's the difference between god dreaming the world into existence and god making it with their own hands? It's all allegory for creation.
Absolutely, people who achieve enlightenment interpret the experience through the lens of their own culture. Buddhism is that truth seen through the lens of Buddha's Hinduism, Christianity (minus anything Paul wrote) is that truth seen through the lens of Jesus's Jew upbringing.
There's even people who have achieved it nowadays that interpret life as a sort of video game.