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

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 !