What is the most liberal religious group in America?
What is a "liberal" religion? The word "liberal" has different meaning depending on the context. Liberalism is usually a political doctrine rather than a religious one. If you are referring to the classic understanding of liberalism, the best I can guess is that you are asking which religion provides the greatest amount of individual liberty and freedom. This religion would champion the self and the conscience over that of a God that oversees and micromanages your life. In that case, Zen Buddhism, or maybe the church of spiritual humanism would probably be the closest things to a "liberal" religion.Dividing religion by using the word "liberal" creates some interesting divisions. For example, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Nazism (totalitarian) and Satanism all would fall into the category of least liberal since they all focus on obeying a single higher authority rather than the individual liberties of the human being.Meanwhile, atheists and Buddhists get grouped together with spiritual humanists and transhumanists and communists (not the totalitarian kind because that is anti-liberty) since they are all less focused on a supreme being and more on the individual human being's liberities and personal freedom.Once you split things that way, it makes you really think. I never really thought in this direction before and it's quite interesting.The Reasoner - http://un-reasonable.blogspot.comHINDUISM - THE MOST LIBERAL RELIGION:Hinduism is the most liberal religion, even theoretically. One reason for the great freedom is the absence of a code of conduct. However, the more important reason is that Hinduism enables us to have control over our thoughts and activities even under extreme conditions.In Hinduism there is three dimensional freedom.1. DIMENSION ONE/ VERTICAL DIMENSION - THE DIMENSION OF GODS:In this dimension are the seven Hindu gods.They are,1. Indra - god of dreaming -32. Shakti - god of illusion -23. Brahma - god of creativity -14. Vishnu - god of stabilization -1+1=05. Shiva - god of determination +16. Shani - god of status change +27. Yama - god of compulsion +38. Brahman -3-2-1+0+1+2+3=0(-) indicates facilitation of action and (+) indicates retardation.Vishnu is the default Hindu god, to be used under normal conditions. The peripheral gods are used as things become worse.The supreme Hindu god Brahman opposes change of any kind while Indra and Yama take activities to their extremities.DIMENSION TWO/ LATERAL DIMENSION - THE VARNAS:In this dimension are the four Varnas.1. Brahmana Varna - enables us to merge all the activities into a single activity called life2. Kshatriya Varna - enables us to keep all activities between an upper and a lower limit3. Vaishya Varna - enables us to have just the lower limit4. Shudra Varna - enables us to have absolute freedom by disconnecting all the activities of our life. Then each activity can have a different status.DIMENSION OF TIME/ ANTERIOR POSTERIOR DIMENSION:In this dimension are the four kinds of time1. Brahmana/ eternal time - there is just one activity that starts at birth and ends at death.2. Kshatriya/ Natural time - all activities have an upper limit and a lower limit of time for execution3. Vaishya time - all activities have a lower limit of time but no upper limit for execution4. Shudra time - all acvities are transient. Since all activities are independent of each other the duration of each of them can be varied at will.Put together, the three dimensions give a Hindu unlimited freedom.Thus, Hinduism is more liberal than any other religion. A more liberal religion is beyond the imagination of any human being.
