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I know the 4 universal religions are Judaism, hinduism, Christianity, and Buddhism..
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Tribal religions are those where belonging to the religion is based on tribe or nation -- Marduk is the god of Babylon and the protector of Babylon.
Read the practical, philosophic meaning of this in The Trojan War -- you have gods battling for their cities and their heroes.
So religion is only about morality only within the "favored group" -- but outside of the group it is just "my tribe" vs "your tribe" -- without any moral component.
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The true "world" religion - Buddhism, Christianity, Islam does not have a tribe or nationality --
These religions claim to have one universal truth and demand that the whole world follow their religion. As Christianity expresses it "Jesus said 'you can only come to the father through me'"
Islam made the demand quite aggressively - making religious war from the very begging.
Christianity started out politely if somewhat snidely (Jesus said something like "if they don't listen, walk away and let them see the dust of your shoes") but once it became a political power about 300 years after Jesus, it too became quite aggressive.
Buddhism is the most polite of the three - but it too basically says that it is the only way to go.
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Judaism is tribal in the sense that it believes that the specific laws of Judaism are meant only for the nation of Israel. But it is also universalist in that it believes that there is only One God and it believes that the purpose of the Jews following the Jewish laws is to be a "nation of priests" --
ie: Just as INSIDE one nation there are priests, and there are warriors, and there are peasants, etc. -- and interconnected tapestry of sub-societies working together for the one goal of the welfare of the tribe,
Judaism conceptualizes the whole world as one social entity with different sub-entities that have different roles -- with the Jewish nation having the role of "priest".
(Judaism can be sub-classed as "universalist / covenantal" -- ie: the Jewish worldview allows that different nations may have their own equaly valid covenants with God)
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