[religion] my principles of spiritual governance

Earlier I ran a piece on the state and sane principles for its governance. Given my view that state and religion are separate, these then are my religious principles:

1] The separation of state and religion should be sacrosanct. There is no place for any religion to be aggressively and temporally enforced. Religion is a personal belief. That’s all. Better one person who truly believes than a billion who are coerced;

2] In Christianity there is no coercion, no state interference. It involves personally, each individual, one by one, if he or she chooses, accepting the teachings of a man called Jesus, whose guiding principles were three:

a] In all religions and societies there has existed the principle of sacrifice, more often blood sacrifice, to atone and appease. Man doesn’t understand any of this spiritual stuff but it seems to exist. The coming of the Christ eliminated the need for such sacrifices and ‘to believe’ is thus the only criterion, which I think is a cool idea;
b] Man should love his neighbour as himself;
c] This has annoyed and stymied a certain coercive dark entity out of his brain;

3] Christianity, having no secular basis, therefore cannot be a state religion. Thus, to compare adherents of different religions, as if numerical supremacy has anything to do with it, is illogical. On the other hand, the state can claim to nominally support a certain religion, e.g. Christianity but that’s as far as it goes. This was clearly demonstrated in the discussion with Pilate - JC was the first to argue for the separation of Church and State;

4] The Christian approach to other religions can only be tolerance [Good Samaritan], as He himself operated by persuasion and example, with a few miracles thrown in for good measure. There was almost no coercion, save the overturning of the money lenders’ tables at the temple;

5] Finer points of theology are garbage, such as con and transubstantiation – there is no record in the Gospels that anything was stated about those. Therefore, to coerce anyone on the basis of fine points of theology, as interpreted and decreed later by humans, is contrary to Christianity. In fact it works for ‘the other side’;

6] You ignore the existence of the coercive dark entity at your peril. Far be it for me to try to convince you, though the Sudan, Algeria, Rwanda, Star Wars, the Matrix and Lord of the Rings should be an indicator. You’ll know sooner or later, through his minions;

7] Even JC liked a drop of the vino and was partial to changing water to wine. To suggest that because a person adheres to the principles of Christianity, there’ll be no more cakes and ale, was never suggested by Him. Ditto for sex. Also, I believe He had a sense of humour though I can’t prove it, except that it exists within us.