Thoughts on religion after a year in Asia: separating “religion” from “Abrahamic monotheism”

I have now spent a year of my life in Asia. I have seen the world’s largest solid-gold Buddha statue (so shinny, I failed to take a glare-free picture of it!): …as well as the largest religious monument in the world (Angkor Wat): Seeing these and other religious monuments got me think: what exactly is [...]