determining similarities between languages are the grammatical patterns, the ways of referring, the semantic and syntactic structures. Something at least remotely analogous can be said to hold in the case of religions. The datum that all religions recommend something which can be called “love” toward that which is taken to be most important (“God”) is a banality as uninteresting as the fact that all languages are (or were) spoken. The significant things are the distinctive patterns of story, belief,
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