This is really apropos of nothing but I came up with this fun metaphor, and I wanted to write it down so I don't forget it.
See, religions are like drinks. You've got your Christian martinis, all basically the same just with a few different ingredients or proportions. You've got your gin in the west and your vodka in the east. Maybe Protestantism is all gimlets, I don't know. And then you've got your Islamic manhattans, and Buddhist white russians, and so on.
(These aren't intended to be exact correlations, they're used to illustrate.)
The point is that every religion is a mix of the same basic ingredients, and it's up to each person to find the drink that they like best. And it's okay for one person to prefer a vodka martini to a mudslide, because in the end you get just as drunk.
To extend the metaphor slightly, that makes priests into bartenders. Granted, some bartenders only know how to make a thousand different martinis, but the best are able to mix up just about anything, thereby to help the drinker find something that really satisfies.
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