### belief | religion:

Various religion
* divide the commandments differently.
* exert different influence on different ethnic groups
* have rules governing the killing of animals for food.
* publish their scriptures, and religious books and journals.
* view salvation and sin differently, too.
+ Ten Commandments, Differences in teachings and interpretation, Different numbering: Old Testament
  * The commandments passage in Exodus has more than ten important statements, there are 14 or 15 in all. Various religions divide the commandments differently. The table below shows those differences.

Western religion
* Most Western religions regard such a practice as contrary to gaining eternal life and happiness
  - western religions approve of organ donation and view it as the ultimate act of kindness
* are esoteric, public, democratic, open to all.
* focus more on order while other religions see the void as the ultimate.
* say they hold the power
  - yes, and every mechanism has a creator

World religion
* Many world religions emphasize confession
  - use fasting as a tool for spiritual advancement
* Most world religions teach that when people die they become spirits.
* are well represented.
* encountering one another and listening and sharing wisdom can indeed save the world.
* seek their version of contentment.

### belief:

Religious belief
* Many religious beliefs decline as education level rises
  - disagree with channeling or such communication as works of the devil
* Some religious beliefs contradict science
  - do make predictions
* are VERY sensitive and create visceral feelings
  - a function of the culture in which one lives
  - accidents of birth
  - against common sense
  - at the core of our life choices and our lifestyle
  - important correlates of behaviors and attitudes
  - only one way of describing a deeply held set of values
  - personal
  - still an important motivation for being involved in philanthropy
  - the bedrock on which free society is built
  - under the protection of laws and regulations in China
* can also play an important role in vegetarianism
  - be a positive force for people facing death from a terminal illness
  - have a strong influence on views about health and illness
  - never be coterminous with political ideologies
* cause the patient to refuse allogeneic transfusions.
* come in more shapes, sizes, and flavors than cups of coffee.
* cross political and geographical lines
  - party and geographical lines
* form the basis for almost all of the discrimination against gays and lesbians.
* interact and reinforce other cultural sources of gender stereotypes.
* is based wholly upon faith and proof comes from revelation or religious authority
  - filthy and gross beyond words and involves child abuse, bestiality, sodomy, etc
  - one very important way in which many people express their spirituality
  - simply an irrational deception of the unconscious
* play a large part in medical treatments, as do social customs.
* powerful motivator for the individual person.
* prevent battering.
* provide shape and meaning to one's perception of the universe.
* remains a significant component of human existence in the modern world.
* tends to be inversely correlated with what most scientists say is simple fact.

### belief | spiritual being:

Aeon
* are companies.
* spiritual being