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People make the mistake of treating religion as an absolute when it should be viewed as a modifier stacked on top of a people's preexisting culture, which it then absorbs and rearranges with some adjustments. Judaism permits very deceptive practices because it absorbed the oral traditions of ethnic Jews who are a very deceptive and conniving people. Islam permits pedophilia and goat fucking because that's who Arabs already were, or some Zoroastrian ideas in the case of the Shia Persians. Christianity is a weird mixture of Judaism with the martial and honor-based culture of Europeans and filtered through over a thousand years of European scholars trying to reconcile Christianity with Platonism, Stoicism, Liberalism, Fascism, Communism, and who knows how many other European ideas. Latin American Catholicism has some weird traditions because of Aztec and other native influences.