IMO, which is certainly not the yet the norm, a religion grows up & becomes a mature spiritual movement only when it sees its place as integrated into the entirety of spiritual evolution. An acknowledgement that God (or gods) speak in many ways to many people, and there can be no one religion which speaks to everyone until and unless a syncretic religion organically evolves from the little tribal religions (like Christianity, Buddhism, Voudoun, Wicca, etc.) at a grass-roots level -- rather than at the church hierarchal level.
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