Worship?

[jafar]

I completely agree about the need for discernment for determining which parts of each religion are designed for serving others and which are designed for serving the self. But I think it's important to not limit the idea of a religion to just dogma, control, and exclusivity. That's giving the service-to-self faction full control over the word religion (and thus religious people) which is what they want as opposed to helping religious people choose to serve others within their chosen worldview which will naturally dismantle the religious control structures in the world

Exclusivity
There's an easy 'recommendation' for it.
Recommend 'religious' people to also join other religion, as many as they can.
Or ask the 'religious people' whether it's 'allowed' to also join other religion, especially the 'rivalling' religion.

Control and Dogma
Dogma = Idea that must not be questioned or challenged.
Dogma is basically a tool for control so let's combine this into one.
Questioned the person's idea, and see how she/he react.

In "Not Religion" free will is paramount, in "Religion" free will must be controlled or abolished.
In "Not Religion" blasphemy doesn't exist, in "Religion" blasphemy is punishable, often by death.

Some people uses 'different name' for 'not religion', they call it "Spirituality".
And has created quite good summarization to define the difference of characteristic..
https://divineintelligenceinstitute.com/...b90092.jpg

STS is basically based on the idea of "Separation", the one characteristic that easily gives them away is "Pride".
A strong sense of 'self superiority', as in order to be (self) 'superior' then the 'inferior others' must exist.
That's the driver why the STS social structure tends to be 'hierarchical'..

The "Not STS", named as "STO" is basically the exact opposite as it's based on "Not Separation" labeled as "Unity".