Guest - If you got rid of the worthless materialist religion that has turned MONEY into the ruling God of society, you would stop almost all the destructive activities and inequalities in this World, because THAT's where they are mostly coming from.

That is the ruling religion of American society...money worship. That is the God your sons and daughters are sacrificed to. Its high priests are CEO's in business suits who make hundreds of millions or billions of dollars a year by impoverishing their own society and enslaving people in the Third World.

And you are worrying about traditional religions? Ha. They are small potatoes compared to money worship. Wake up, wage slave, and look at your chains.

Poppa Gator -

I am certainly practicing a different form of belief to that of my parents...they were either atheists or agnostics (it was a little hard to say). They have broadened their outlook some in recent years. At any rate, my family has belonged to no church or official religion of any sort.

I am someone consciously on a spiritual journey which is not limited to any particular religion. I find something useful in all of them. According to the test, I scored 100% on Mahayana Buddhism, but I have never specifically studied that path as far as I know. I apparently tend to agree with them, though. I have studied Taoism, various forms of Christianity, Hinduism, the Yogic and Vendanta traditions, Native American religion, a little of the Muslim and Jewish religions, and a whole slew of other spiritual philosophies. They all share a great deal in common.