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Ok, I'll be brave & start the ball rolling with my own thoughts on a topic:

Some religions are based entirely on exclusivity (only their members get to 
Heaven, for example)

I'd lkke to suggest they are preaching it wrong: 

It's that those in their group must follow their rules or suffer exclusion
from their group's rewards.

I believe God to be more universal -- after all He/She created all humans,
not  only a single group (unless you count us all as one family, which I do)

God, however you understabd or don't understand God, obviously loves variety, 
so why take away variety, in casing an ephemeral idea of homogeneity?

Certainly some laws are universal, & can be aptly summed up under the Golden 
Rule.  Humanism has develpoed this same framework for defining universal 
commandments.

I think it can be summed up in two: 1. Don't be a jackass.
2. Do good.

I prefer to consider true religions, open to all, as: "To love and to learn"

Everything else is comsmetic -- you go to a church or club you feel; 
comfortable with, with an affinity for the membership/rules.

I believe my purpose on this Earth, in the life, is to make the world a
little  bit better than when I came into it (being born, & also each new day)

I personally feel the most affinity for Conservative Judaism & its 
interpretation of the universal truths, so that's who I affiliate with.  
They've formally accepted & ritualised this membership per their traditions
for such, so I'm officially part of a humumgous family who likewise seeks to
do  good for others & to improve Earth for the sake of all.




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