>While it may be possible to find one (maybe not an organized religion but a philosphy perhaps) that abides by most of your listed requirements, I don't think one exists that will abide by the first issue. They may go about it differently (recommendations, guidelines, etc), but I think all tell the individual how to live...

The point was in organized religions, not philosophies or schools of thought or what you may call them.

As to telling a member how to live, I may have a spare request if the first one is impossible: don't tell me what to do, just make an example of yourselves.

>>Actually, I don't have any beef with religion per se. I do have with organized religion. If you ever find one which
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>>- doesn't tell me how to live
>>- doesn't claim to have monopoly on truth
>>- doesn't claim to have monopoly on morality
>>- doesn't claim to have monopoly on spirituality
>>- doesn't tell me what to think about non-members
>>- doesn't tell me what to do with non-members
>>- doesn't claim to have a stake in my marriage
>>- doesn't require my kids to be members
>>- doesn't feel it's its duty to make an eulogy on me from their POV
>>- doesn't ever require any money (peer pressure as a retrieval method also counts)
>>- doesn't ever ask me to help it expand by canvassing/converting new members
>>- doesn't mind if their pontifice maxima's husband is an unbeliever
>>- doesn't have ranks and hierarchy
>>- doesn't try to be richer than their average member
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>>...I'm not promising that I'd become a member, but I would really make an honest exception for them in any dispute of this sort.