Allow me to propose a little exercise of gauging worldviews and understandings of the word "Religion".
Please picture in your mind an ideal yet achievable world. One where religion is consistently expressed in its very best forms with the most auspicious of all conceivable results.
What are those results?
How, if at all, will you know that they are the best possible?
How much of those results is discernible by other people? How much effort, good will and cooperation does it require of them?
What do you see as the way forward from that most fortunate state of things?
I intend to post my answers for these questions in this thread, but not quite yet. I am truly eager to see what others say first.
Please picture in your mind an ideal yet achievable world. One where religion is consistently expressed in its very best forms with the most auspicious of all conceivable results.
What are those results?
How, if at all, will you know that they are the best possible?
How much of those results is discernible by other people? How much effort, good will and cooperation does it require of them?
What do you see as the way forward from that most fortunate state of things?
I intend to post my answers for these questions in this thread, but not quite yet. I am truly eager to see what others say first.