h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

After the first couple of paragraphs, in order to check the 'facts' on this (I'm a sub-editor) I'm going to have to spend a couple of years swotting up on Joseph Campbell and Thomas Aquinas. Because I'm almost totally religiously illiterate at the same time as seeking SOME spiritual dimension to this lunacy, I can't even begin to follow some of the dissertation you've presented.
The other drawback is that to fact-check, a bit of time-travel is necessary because so little information is available from the origins of these religions that interpretation by the already-devout is close to the best knowledge I'm likely to come across....and I don't trust any of them because of the on-going collision between the my-god-is-better-than-your-god attitude.

The first phrase that comes to mind as a possible heading is: All of this material is subject to interpretation without reason.

This posting alone is going to set off a firestorm...so I'm leaving for higher ground.

Fruitbat

I don't offer anything here as 'fact'. I offer it as research, as in re-search-er. Why on earth would I expect you to be able to verify what I'm saying, especially as you admit up front that you don't really understand it?

The bit about "so little information is available from the origins of these religions that interpretation by the already-devout is close to the best knowledge I'm likely to come across" is sort of foolish. There's a ton of information, history, exegetical literature, and scholarly writing on the topic(s) at hand available to anyone with a library card. You might have noticed some universities devoting entire departments of highly-trained, highly-intelligent people to figuring all of this out, even.