I disagree. That might be true of dogmatic religions that require you to have specific beliefs, but there are religions that are not dogmatic, religions based upon common belief, not required dogmatic belief. A couple examples: Hicksite Quaker and Wicca. I can't believe in any religion that requires that you believe what they say blindly without questioning. Both in Hicksite Quakerism and Wicca, participants in the religion are encouraged to form their own individual beliefs. Some other religions do likewise.
Religions that say you must hold specific beliefs to be a good person is extremism. People who choose their religion because it is what they believe morally, philosophicaly, etc., is not extremism.
How about cases in which a religion which has such specific beliefs (e.g., about the nature of God, man's relationship with God, how men should behave toward their fellow man, etc.), and a person discovers that those beliefs match (or at least largely match) what s/he has come to believe in his/her own?
-- Ronn! :)
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