Six Gateways and How the Religions Utilize Them

A little refresher from the first time around:

1. Mind Cultivation - cultivation of insight via contemplation and meditation methodologies.
2. Knowledge Acquisition - Scholarly study of various Natural Law sciences, doctrines, scriptures, teachings, ect.
3. Good Works - Selflessly putting spiritual knowledge and insights to practice in the material world, for the benefit of the community, and sentient beings in general.
4. Devotion - Veneration of higher beings, and the taking of vows, precepts, and/or initiation.
5. Wellness and Purification - On the mundane level, this is the various methods of conditioning of the physical body for optimum fitness, and on the higher levels, this is the various methods of energetic purification of the subtle bodies and its energy centers.
6. Austerity and Renunciation - The process and methodology of withdrawing oneself from the hustle and bustle of worldly life. At the more rudimentary level, this is simply the various practices of moderation in daily living and the cessation of bad habits.

And now how these relate to the various religions, using a 5-star rating system. The overall rating each religion gets here isn't necessarily indicative of how 'good' or 'bad' (those are subjective valuations anyway) a religion is, but rather how much the religion overall is oriented toward spiritual practices (and to a lesser extent, the study of philosophy) for its adherents. The highest ranked on this list excel in what I would term as a 'whole spiritual system'; in other words, it's strongly spiritual and philosophical in focus and includes a number of different methods/practices/approaches to both spiritual attainment and the manifestation of spiritual principles in the mundane world for a mass of adherents. Those that rank lower tend to be religions that are either (a) mostly secular in content, i.e. legalism, fossilized dogma, and dry ritualism, or (b) a spiritually-focused system that's too specialized or overly-focused on just one or two approaches to spirituality.

I've simplified some of the above category names for the purpose of rendering easily-understandable format below.

Greco-Roman Natural Religion (Hellenism)
Meditation: 2/5
Philosophy: 5/5
Charity: 2/5
Ritual & Prayer: 4/5
Wellness: 3/5
Austerity: 1/5
Overall: 57%

Indian Natural Religion (Hinduism/Sanatana Dharma)
Meditation: 5/5
Philosophy: 5/5
Charity: 3/5
Ritual & Prayer: 5/5
Wellness: 5/5
Austerity: 2/5
Overall: 83%

Buddhism
Meditation: 5/5
Philosophy: 3/5
Charity: 4/5
Ritual & Prayer: 2/5
Wellness: 2/5
Austerity: 4/5
Overall: 70%

Judaism
Meditation: 0/5
Philosophy: 1/5
Charity: 2/5
Ritual & Prayer: 4/5
Wellness: 2/5
Austerity: 2/5
Overall: 37%

Catholic/Orthodox Christianity
Meditation: 2/5
Philosophy: 3/5
Charity: 4/5
Ritual & Prayer: 5/5
Wellness: 1/5
Austerity: 2/5
Overall: 57%

Protestant Christianity
Meditation: 0/5
Philosophy: 0/5
Charity: 3/5
Ritual & Prayer: 4/5
Wellness: 0/5
Austerity: 2/5
Overall: 30%

Islam
Meditation: 1/5
Philosophy: 2/5
Charity: 4/5
Ritual & Prayer: 5/5
Wellness: 1/5
Austerity: 3/5
Overall: 53%

Zoroastrianism
Meditation: 0/5
Philosophy: 1/5
Charity: 3/5
Ritual & Prayer: 4/5
Wellness: 2/5
Austerity: 1/5
Overall: 37%

Taoism
Meditation: 4/5
Philosophy: 4/5
Charity: 0/5
Ritual & Prayer: 2/5
Wellness: 5/5
Austerity: 3/5
Overall: 60%

Japanese Natural Religion (Shinto)
Meditation: 0/5
Philosophy: 1/5
Charity: 1/5
Ritual & Prayer: 4/5
Wellness: 1/5
Austerity: 1/5
Overall: 33%

Manichaeism
Meditation: 1/5
Philosophy: 2/5
Charity: 4/5
Ritual & Prayer: 5/5
Wellness: 1/5
Austerity: 5/5
Overall: 60%

Sikhi
Meditation: 2/5
Philosophy: 2/5
Charity: 3/5
Ritual & Prayer: 5/5
Wellness: 3/5
Austerity: 3/5
Overall: 60%

Jainism
Meditation: 3/5
Philosophy: 2/5
Charity: 4/5
Ritual & Prayer: 5/5
Wellness: 2/5
Austerity: 5/5
Overall: 70%

Secular Ideologies that can be said to be religious in function

Western Secular Humanism
Meditation: 0/5
Philosophy: 2/5
Charity: 3/5
Ritual & Prayer: 0/5
Wellness: 0/5
Austerity: 0/5
Overall: 17%

Neopaganism
Meditation: 0/5
Philosophy: 1/5
Charity: 0/5
Ritual & Prayer: 3/5
Wellness: 0/5
Austerity: 0/5
Overall: 13%

Marxism/Socialism
Meditation: 0/5
Philosophy: 1/5
Charity: 1/5
Ritual & Prayer: 1/5
Wellness: 0/5
Austerity: 1/5
Overall: 13%

Neo-Marxism (Social Justice Ideology)
Meditation: 0/5
Philosophy: 1/5
Charity: 1/5
Ritual & Prayer: 1/5
Wellness: 0/5
Austerity: 1/5
Overall: 13%

Overall Rankings

1. Hinduism -- 83%
2. Buddhism -- 70% -tie with- Jainism
3. Taoism -- 60% -tie with Sikhi- and Manichaeism
4. Hellenism -- 57% -tie with- Catholic/Orthodox Christianity
5. Islam -- 53%
6. Judaism -- 37% -tie with- Zoroastrianism
7. Shinto -- 33%
8. Protestant Christianity -- 30%

Dishonorable mentions: Neopaganism and all the secular ideologies