It is not possible that these religions cannot share some commonalities, since all religions are made up of members of the same species. Although he claims that all religions are different, Prothero still easily composes a four-part study of all of them, identifying in all religions a problem, a religious goal, a technique for achieving this goal, and examples that chart the path to this goal ( 14 ). Although Prothero created this method to demonstrate that all religions have different motivations behind them, he also shows that all religions have a similar structure in which they address the problems they identify. Next, Prothero creates a sports analogy to highlight the different goals of each religion. In this analogy, he asks which sport is the best at scoring runs, and says the answer "is baseball, because racing is a foreign term to basketball, tennis, and golf (22)." Although the specific term runs is specific only to baseball, the idea of scoring runs is the same in every sport he lists. Similarly, in religions, although the specific names and attributes of the religious problems and goals proposed by different religions may be different, the basic ideas behind these things are similar, since human beings have asked themselves these questions.
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