Alea_iacta_est
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Actually religion is revealed by God.
Religion is not for us to pick and choose.
For instance, God revealed the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, and it would be blasphemous to choose which commandments we were to obey.
The Christians have the Apostles' Creed, an expression of faith, so it would also be blasphemnous to pick and choose which parts of the Creed to believe.
Muslims believe the Koran is the literal words of Allah. And to pick and choose which words are Allah's is blasphemy.
So we take Revelation as revealed truth or we reject all of it.
Religion is not like a supermarket or a smörgåsbord.
Based on the amount of different forms of Christianity, I may have to disagree. What of Christian Deism, is that not a basic selection of God (who inevitably left according to deism) but without all of the other stories? No divine intervention?
There's nothing stopping anybody from choosing the parts of religions that they like over others and still calling it a sub-variation of a religion.