What Does It Mean To Transcend According To Your Beliefs?

What does it mean to transcend according to your beliefs?

Some religions do, and some don't. The pagan religions of the ancient Romans, Celts, Aztecs, etc. were tightly bound up with their cultures. Their gods were anthropomorphised expressions of the hopes, fears, daily and seasonal aspects of life in that culture, such that the two concepts are inseparable. The case of Christianity is different. The earliest debate in the Christian Church was between those who insisted that Jewish culture be followed and those who did not. The ones who didn't won out in the end, and Christianity took a number of different forms in different cultures. Some of those can be seen today, for example, in the Syro Malankara Church in India, which received its faith not from Western colonial missionaries but from the apostle Thomas in the 1st century, or the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which maintains a uniquely African expression of Christianity, with circular churches, liturgical dancing, and unique dietary laws. As the forms of Christianity that established themselves in Greece and Rome spread, however, t took elements of the culture with them. This is why so much of contemporary Christianity in the world today is bound up with Roman traditions, but even there it is expressed very differently depending on culture. An Irish Catholic and a Brazilian Catholic will have very different ways of celebrating the same festivals. I don't feel qualified to answer about any other religious traditions, though I can see that there are very diverse ways of expressing Muslim and Buddhist faith around the world.