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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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