The future of religion is in following Jesus’ humanitarian morality, in seeing all human beings as being equal in the need to have their basic needs met. The following precepts, that Jesus promoted, is really the ultimate moral end for all religions:
a. All humans are equal
b. All humans are to be ultimately punished by God, not humanity
c. Varieties of ideal communities should be established, having no authority except over themselves
d. Leaders should be chosen, not because of their capacity to collect power to themselves, but because of their ability to assist the most people of any kind, especially those under their care
e. Humans who harm community should be separated from the ideal community
f. It is the noblest ideal to meet other’s needs no matter the harm they do to oneself or one’s community
g. We change the world through accepting suffering, not by forcing suffering
h. The greatest sin is harming others and teaching young people to harm others.
If only we could always remember "b"!
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