What They’re Really Selling You When They Say “All Religions Are the Same”
Why It Always Ends With You Apologizing for Your Holidays
You’ve probably heard it once or twice:
“All religions are the same.”
Usually delivered with a compassionate smile, a wide-brimmed eco-hat, and a yoga mat rolled up in the background.
The pitch?
All religions aim for love, peace, harmony.
The reality?
Only one religion is constantly graded by impossible expectations, triple standards, and the polite suggestion:
“Your tradition is beautiful – just don’t be extreme.”
(And yes, “extreme” apparently means observing your own heritage without apologizing for it.)
So what exactly are they selling us here?
If you put on tefillin – it’s “intimidating.”
If someone else kneels five times a day on a prayer rug – it’s “authentic spirituality.”
If you fast on Yom Kippur – it’s “nice,” as long as you don’t mention it out loud.
If someone fasts during Ramadan – it’s a “celebration of rich culture we should all embrace.”
See the trick?
We’re all equal – as long as their difference is expressed loudly
and yours is expressed quietly.
Equality? Tolerance? Depends Who’s Asking.
Equality apparently means:
A Jewish kindergarten is asked not to mention Hanukkah –
“just so we don’t hurt anyone’s feelings.”
Secular schools run “Tolerance Week” with lessons on Islam, Buddhism, Christianity…
and everything except Judaism – because “well, that’s already obvious.”
A museum hosts a “World Religions Exhibit” where one faith is portrayed as serene and universal,
and another – yours – comes with a warning label and a footnote on
“incendiary rabbis.”
Meanwhile, across the Middle East…
Jews were expelled from 22 Muslim countries.
Churches are burned across Africa.
Religious minorities are persecuted in Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.
And in Israel?
You are asked to explain why construction in Judea and Samaria endangers “interfaith harmony.”
Now for the Funniest Part
You – the one who puts on tefillin, keeps kosher, prays for Jerusalem,
and lives in the only actually tolerant country in the region –
somehow became “the problem.”
Everyone else?
“Complicated.”
“Victims of systems.”
“Holders of alternative narratives.”
But you?
You need to tone it down.
What Happens When Someone Really Believes There’s No Difference?
They stop believing in themselves.
They start apologizing for their own heritage.
They ask, “Maybe we really are all the same?”
And that’s exactly when they lose the uniqueness, identity, and inner strength
that kept the Jewish people alive for two thousand years.
Final Rule of Thumb:
If someone tells you all religions are equal –
check which ones survive without Amnesty International doing their PR.
Because Judaism isn’t “one of the religions.”
It’s a covenant.
An identity.
A people.
A culture.
A mission.
And it survives not despite being different –
but because it is.
הירשמו כדי לקבל את הפוסטים האחרונים אל המייל שלכם
