Steps to Becoming Anti-Dogma

Now, please understand that these are not commands. I am not trying to proselytize here. It's is merely one route upon many possible ones, and my steps reflect , in part, my journey through philosophy as well as as a skeptic.

Step#1:
Move away from your religion. See the bullshit for what it is - become, through one or more phases, an atheist. It's OK to use a different word for it. Don't let anyone define you for you.

Step#2:
Recognize the harm of your religion. Be careful, this part is fraught with possible error. There will be a real temptation to entertain the notion that minorities can do no wrong, and so support other, minority, religions regardless of that religion's content. Millennials get caught on this one all the time, it seems. Of course the newer not-necessarily religious ideologies are pushing this craziness.

Step#3:
Recognize the harm common to all religions (become an anti-theist). Yes, this is the definition of an anti-theist. It's not about being anti theists, despite the wails of the people who oppose you. Instead, understand that they are victims of indoctrination and/or brainwashing.

Step#4:
Start digging deeper (intense skeptical inquiry), until you hit the prime content of any religion, which is to subjugate humans beneath dogma, beneath a narrative. The primary weapon for this is prescriptive normative "morality," which has no basis.

Step#5:
Proceed through the nihilist phase until you realize that you are still defining things as the religious want you to. Leave the religious definitions in the dust. Start learning and developing more human centered definitions, and leave nihilism in the dust of learned, necessary transitions, and overcome experiences.

Step#6:
Start exploring all the new potentials and possibilities of life post-dogma.