The Extraneous 12

12 extraneous rules NOT to live by ... courtesy Alternet

1. Chosen People
2. Heretics
3. Holy War
4. Blasphemy
5. Glorified suffering
6. Genital mutilation
7. Blood sacrifice
8. Hell
9. Karma
10. Eternal Life
11. Male ownership of female fertility
12. Bibliolatry aka book worship

In a world that is teeming with humanity, armed with pipe bombs and machine guns and nuclear weapons and drones, we don’t need defenders of religion’s status quo—we need real reformation, as radical as that of the 16th Century and much, much broader. It is only by acknowledging religion’s worst ideas that we have any hope of embracing the best.

The Golden Rule works for me. 

Book with "Dieu, la Loi, et le Roi" ("God, the law and the king") 

on one page and the golden rule on the other, by Bernard d'Agesci.