Worship?

[MonadicSpectrum]

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".

I believe that this is an over-generalization and over-simplification of the complexity and uniqueness of religious belief and practices, but I can imagine this information is helpful to some religious folks who are confused about how to seek their religious ideal of unconditional love which respects free will. It's kind of like saying 'sports' is all about dominating others, crushing opponents, and following strict rules while 'not sports' is about learning to work together, helping others improve their skills, and creating new experiences where 'not sports' is something like theater. When in reality, both sports and theater have groups of people that focus on each of the six areas mentioned.

I appreciate this message from Abraham Hicks that talks about how the world is divided into many different groups of people across countries, religions, and politics and how many groups are not happy about others being in other groups (such as spiritual people not being happy about religious people). When in reality, there are only two groups of people that actually matter: those who are under the influence of source energy (or Higher Self) and those who are under the influence of something else, those who are connected to infinite intelligence and those who are blocked from it, those who are flowing through life with joy and those who are not, or those who are on the path of learning to polarize and those who are not. Compared to this, whether one is religious or not or in this political group or that one isn't so important. https://youtu.be/K1YYe9k-e7Q