Religion like politic is always a touchy subject, with so many different religious beliefs and practices there is hundreds of interpretations and ideas about what is the right/holy thing. Exploring the similarities  and differences between the big five seminal thinkers was a very interesting activity and read. Each had a set of beliefs and followers. Each  also had or has some sort of written documentation for followers or it was a guide on how to be and what to believe in about them and their teachings. Even being so far form each other they all managed to capture many of the same things in practice, vales, beliefs and in the way people interpreted what they were doing and teaching. I believe the similarities came thought in the way  people became connected, traveling for food, trade, exploration,  and religious travels. They interacted with each other, learned about each other and brought that back to their respected homes and communities sharing with them the outside world for them to adapt or not.