The great divide within those who call themselves religious
(whether Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, or Muslim)
lies between those who see their faith as a matter of belief in set suppositions
and those who see the faith as a matter of action, of how they live, what they do.
This division supercedes, in practical terms, the organisational hierarchies
and those based on different regions, practices, or holy books.
A focus on Belief is expressed by the centrality of a Creed or set formulae,
which crystalise and focus the concept of divinity into comprehensible phrases
and thus into a personalised God shaped in human form and sharing much of our nature.
It is a God to worship and adore, trusting that this will open the gates of eternal bliss.
It may also be expressed by an ongoing and constant search for the form of the divine;
for contact with the reality that must, surely, lie behind our verbal explanations.
The alternative focus on Action seeks to express its trust in God through what is done;
how it behaves to its neighbour, how it cares for Creation, for nature, for others;
all the different ways to demonstrate love of God's Creation and of our neighbour.
Some would call this a Liberal version of the faith.
It rejects much of the doctrine of formalised religion, as irrelevant to the purposes of divinity.
It calls for the relevance of our deeds rather than the correctness of our words.