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Originally Posted by Black Peter
When you take a religion and alter it to fit your needs, is it still a religion? Or has it become a philosophical way of life? Or something else?
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Originally Posted by spanktehbadwookie
Kindness fulfills human need. So as far as I understand your question, the answer is kindness.
To give more of an answer I have considered that this question is made up from at least several questions.
1. How does religion or a religion change?
2. Why do some members of religions share their viewpoints and practices freely?
3. What happens when a religion shares it's knowledges and practices freely.
Very large questions IMO.
Still, beginning with kindness, it's a simple and plausible impetus for sharing anything which fulfills a human
need and changes cruelty.
For question 3, more kindness can happen from kindness. So when a religion shares the value of kindness, what happens is kindness.
So I think kindness is a good short answer within the answers of all three questions.