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It suggests a way to bring religions together for the benefit of humanity as a whole. It is about broadening minds with an additional way of looking at religion and its role in society. We can all believe in life but religions in the past have not always put much value on human life. Thus, life and humanity go together as far as life-belief is concerned.\u003cbr\u003e Life-belief or \u003ci\u003evivodoxia\u003c\/i\u003e (to give it a fancy name) consists in believing in the value of life itself. \u003ci\u003e'Vivodoxia'\u003c\/i\u003e means 'life believing', and it is surely something we may all agree with. We can all be vivodoxians believing in life above all else. It is more about living life than just life in the abstract.\u003cbr\u003e Life-belief is the most basic faith of all. We can believe what we like, but it is not necessary for a vivodoxian to believe in God, Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, the Buddha or any of the many entities, prophets or belief systems inflicted on humanity over the ages in religion's name. If we want, we can simplify our view by ignoring other religious beliefs. All our beliefs can be boiled down to a simple belief in life for its own sake and for nothing else. But other religions are not being jettisoned in favour of life-belief as it is entirely compatible with other faiths.\u003cbr\u003e Life-belief is not a fixed body of doctrine; it is a dynamic, dualistic and interactionist belief that is about helping people to make the most of their lives. This dynamic orientation towards people saves it from the extremism, dogmatism and narrowness to which religions are often prone. 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