[Mind's Eye] Re: Religion As People In The West and Middle East Understand

Or as religion encompasses any belife in a creative diety or dieties
and includes the dogma or dharma to live by, religion anywhere in the
world can be called by that name.

On Sep 9, 11:34 am, Vam <atewari2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Monotheistic Religions, as they are, do three things :
> 1  Assure salvation, the power for which is entirely with another
> 2  Demand Belief in a defined presentation of thought and ideology
> 3  Convert others to their fold through material lure, physical and
> mental fear and reward.
>
> Atheistic disciplines, pantheistic and polytheistic ways of living do
> none of these.
>
> They are therefore not religions as the people in the West and Middle
> East believe in and understand !