@Kiman
Apologies for being blunt. I would like to be more helpful than that.
It seems, like me, you had a very moral upbringing, probably a religious one. Correct me if I am assuming wrongly.
It’s very easy from that past, infact, probably inevitable, to really struggle with what Actualism is about.
Indeed, the AFT is specifically written for the “spiritual seeker” rather than “religious survivors” or “scientific atheists”.
Because of that particular framing, with that audience mind, it doesn’t address the transition from traditional religion to actualism. It addresses the transition from aspiring for “enlightenment” to actualism.
That is of course because it’s main 3 authors, were either enlightened, or aspiring towards enlightenment.
For the Hindus carefully observing their beliefs, or the Christians (who mostly think enlightenment is an ancient myth) there is nothing to designed on the site to really get through to religious people.
As many in the world will say these days “I am not religious, but I am spiritual”.
This is the culture in Australia. Most will say the above, in some manner or another.
So, what to do about this?
The religious person is mostly concerned with the state of the world at large. Religion, all types, generally believe that if everyone converted to that particular religion, the world would be at peace.
My Hindu friend says “it’s not a religion, but a way of life” then goes on to essentially say that if everyone was Hindu we would all be harmless.
India has had 5000 years to prove that.
Buddhism 2500 years
Christianity, 2000 years
Islam 1300 years.
No peace.
So the universal belief in morality, and specifically the morality of one’s own religion, had seen to be ineffective in all cases.