It would be unthinking and wasteful to just disregard and discard old faiths. If they die a natural death due to innate loss of worship and devotion from dwindling numbers of followers due to increasing, historical irrelevancy, that is one thing, and is acceptable. That has been occurring to established faiths for thousands of years.
It is another an mistaken undertaking entirely to abandon existing faiths arbitrarily and artificially because they do not comport with new memes and mores.
Most old faiths are more good than evil, but they are an admixture of both.
We should encourage traditional worshippers to continue venerating and following their deities.
Aspects of the old faiths that are unthinkable to retain, let alone celebrate: brotherhood, altruism, emotionalism, extremism, violent conversion, zero tolerance for free speech and blasphemy.
Proselytizers of new faiths should place a premium on the following concepts: individual rights and sole churches, individualism and individuating as the means to save one's soul, worship God and grow into one's divinely assigned angelic role, moderation, rationalism voluntary conversions, total or near total tolerance of free speech, almost radical devotion to individual liberty.
New faiths will flourish with these elements. New faiths may be able to grow out of old faiths, an updated version of the old faith, etc.
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