All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

Framed as a stand-up aphorism, the line compresses a skeptical view of organized religion into a punchy formula: beneath doctrinal differences, many traditions rely on moral accounting—sin, repentance, obligation, and the anxiety of falling short. The tag “with different holidays” adds comic deflation, reducing rich theological and cultural systems to a shared emotional mechanism plus a calendar of rituals. The humor works by exaggeration and flattening: it critiques how religion can be experienced less as transcendence than as social pressure and internalized shame, while also acknowledging the visible diversity of religious life through the harmless, even festive, marker of holidays.