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The Ultimate Bottom Line

By the Irreverent Reverend

There are thousands of religions and sects in the world -- some 20,000 in Christianity, alone -- each one assuming, if not proclaiming, that they have the truth.

This leaves us with a major dilemma, especially since some of these religions try to tell us that if we don't believe as they do, we're lost -- even going to hell.

The following concept is consistent with all major religions -- although typically obscured by centuries of religious dogma.

According to the Vedanta texts, the ancient texts that some say lie at the base of all of the world's major religions...

...even though you have not studied religion or philosophy, although you have never prayed once in your life, and even though you don't believe in God...

...if your thoughts and actions in life demonstrate a total selflessness with respect to others...

...you have arrived at the same non-dualistic realization that the devoutly religious are striving to reach with their lifetimes of prayers and religious studies.

Maybe the heart of this can be put in an even simpler way:

We are all here to love each other and all living things.
There is nothing else we have to learn
and nothing else we have to do.

It doesn't get any simpler than that.