Bhairitu: > If you want to be democratic about it, get rid of all religion. > What we have to do is get rid of the inappropriate violent tendencies in religions through consciousness expansion techniques. What's needed is the implementation of a consciousness-based education that is rational and middle way between conservative and radical. What we should aspire to should be neither violent nor pacific, nor both, nor neither.
In order to see in the dark you bring in the Light. According to the ancient enlightenment tradition, people suffer due to ignorance and not being able to discriminate between the real and the appearance of reality. It should be understood that "enlightenment" depends SOLELY upon the discriminative knowledge of the individual in order to reveal the true nature of things.