### belief | religion:

Different religion
* Many different religions compromise each other.
* believe in different deities.
* have different beliefs about what happens to people when they die
  - canons
  - dietary restrictions
  - lifestyles, foods and customs
  - positions regarding abortion
* hold different beliefs about a supreme being.
* observe calendars going back to their founder.
* take different views of work, savings, and material goods.
* teach different things about the afterlife.
+ Afterlife: Theology
  * The 'afterlife' is what some people believe happens after death. Different religions teach different things about the afterlife.
+ Deity: Religion
  * Different religions believe in different deities. Since there are many religions in the world there are many different ideas about how many deities there are, what they are, and what they can do. Followers of many ancient religions and some modern religions believe in many deities. The belief in more than one deity is called polytheism. The two largest religions on earth, Christianity and Islam, believe in only one God, which is called monotheism. Deism is the belief that a deity exists, but that the deity seldom or never intervenes in the universe.

### belief | religion:

Eastern religion
* Many eastern religions celebrate the awe of the universe in an incredibly beautiful way.
* Most Eastern religions believe that a loved one is reincarnated after the body is cremated.
* Some Eastern religions have a similar feel
  - seek a goal of non-desire
* accept reincarnation more readily than western.
* are esoteric, understandable only from within by the few who share the experience
  - high on individual liberty and low on individual responsibility
* find salvation in meditation and enlightenment.
* is heavy on the spiritual and weak on the psychological end
  - the only faith represented
* say they are the keepers of the keys
  - hold the power
* teach reincarnation.
* tends to be more spiritually developed than psychologically developed.

False religion
* Some false religions have personal gods.
* causes instability within relationships leading to war.
* feeds the hunger for personal religious significance.
* promotes false faith.
* seek their votaries among the rich and powerful.
* teach that humans can become gods.

### belief | religion:

Fundamentalism
* affects all religions and has a crucial corollary.
* are beliefs.
* arises from a person's general approach to life.
* breeds totalitarianism and intolerance.
* encourages a belief that the world is divided into sinners and the saved.
* frequently grows out of a feeling of being ignored and despised.
* is almost always a fear based faith
  - an awful state of mind, and leads to war
  - characterised by an unremitting hostility to equality, democracy and rationalism
  - legalism, pure and simple
  - mostly mental, concerned primarily with orthodoxy, with having right belief
  - rationalist
  - taken from the Christian use of the word
  - terrorism and terrorism is fundamentalism
* limited slice of religions often exploited for political ends.
* literalist view of things.
* nefarious school of thought manifested as a dangerous political system.
* opposes, among other things, evolutionary biology.
* political expression of spiritual belief, hardened into dogma.
* word that's been taking a beating in recent years.

### belief | religion | fundamentalism:

Religious fundamentalism
* is the highest form of hypocrisy.
* tends to be detrimental to female rights.

Great religion
* All great religions represent the upsurge of religious emotions and religious attitudes.
* have great staying power.

Heathenism
* is religion
* rock harder than any which encases copper.