This is NOT true for poetry which often dies in translation. Like a dried flower. Still beautiful yes, but often lacking something vital.
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A religion is just a language/library/framework to make sense of God. A Christian, Muslim, Hindi, Buddhist can all believe in the same God just like you can use any language to express any thought.
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If I were to learn other languages, my main goal would probably to understand its poetry. To learn a new way of dicing up the world to see how it attempts to understand the divine.
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The more difficult it is to translate poetry, the more another’s cultures feels alien and robotic. E.g. Chinese.
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There’s also huge benefits to english cultures in a world where english is the primary language. There’s natural intuitive understanding of the framework. There’s “mimetic resonance”
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You don't think religion carries the same cultural resonance as poetry? Just look at Christianity! It has foundations in Persian (Zoroaster) and Hebrew (Jewish) culture, but then is heavily informed by the entire Roman Empire, and then again by Enlightenment Era Europe.
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I do agree most religions point vaguely in same direction, but cultural interpretation and application of these principles means that what people imagine when they say "God" actually varies quite widely and we just use the same term because then we don't have to argue about it.
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