Are you really so narrow and petty as to believe that all religions practice such deliberate deception?
Yes.
We are all entitled to our beliefs, no matter how narrow and petty those "beliefs" might make us.
But if you have ever studied comparative religions, you might not be quite so quick to assume that all religions are fraudulent at their core.*
They might be wrong, but that's another matter entirely.
* For example,
http://www.letusreason.org/Buddh1.htmGenerally Buddhism does not believe in a personal God or a divine being, it does not have worship, praying to, or praising of a divine being (although some sects do.) It offers no form of redemption, forgiveness, no heavenly hope, or a final judgment to those practicing its system. Buddhism is a moral philosophy, an ethical way to live for the here and now of this world to gain the ultimate state. It has more in common with humanism and atheism than its original religion Hinduism it separated from. But Buddhism is not atheism just because they don’t believe in a personal God. It is more like pantheism, there is a impersonal force the void which is the ultimate.
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