The main purpose of 3rd Millennium Gateway is to promote a spirituality of openness and tolerance, based on understanding and awareness, and capable of changing with new learning and new discoveries. Recognizing that organized religion is often a major source of prejudice and tyranny, 3MG encourages spiritual freedom and independence from religious authoritarianism, dogma and moral absolutism. To that end, 3MG suggests the ancient and modern teaching of Nonduality, the realization of universal consciousness as one's true identity.

3MG agrees with the common assessment of many spiritual leaders, such as Confucius and Jesus, that genuine morality is based on empathy and compassion, on treating others the way we want to be treated (see Shared Belief in the Golden Rule from Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance). That is the only universal morality, and it undoubtedly evolved as a product of humanity's evolution and interaction as a social species. (See What Makes Us Moral: "The deepest foundation on which morality is built is the phenomenon of empathy, the understanding that what hurts me would feel the same way to you. And human ego notwithstanding, it's a quality other species share.")

There is no evidence or proof to support religion's many different and contradictory claims of an objective or divinely enacted moral law. Morality is a human interest, not a divine one. It is written in our genes, not in the universe. (See Research On Human Nature Is Cause For Optimism: "...sophisticated studies within biology suggest that large-scale cooperation within the human species, including with genetically unrelated individuals within a group, was favored by group selection. There were clear evolutionary benefits in coming to grips with others.")

In line with a morality of compassion, 3MG holds that all religions have an obligation to be tolerant and not impose their values on anyone, just as they would not want someone else's values imposed on them. Intolerance disguised as morality or "principle" is still intolerance. Those, for example, who try to rationalize that they love the "sinner," but hate the "sin," inevitably end up hating the "sinner." Jesus himself, the paragon of Christian morality, clearly condemned those who judge others.

Intolerance includes discrimination or second-class treatment based on gender, gender identification or sexual orientation. These groups are specified, not because of a limited concern, but because they are the ones currently attacked most frequently, and often viciously, under the justification of religion and morality. Witness, for example, the current attempts by organized religion to undermine the dignity and rights of gays, or to prevent women from becoming ministers or priests, or to be fully equal to men.

3MG is also a portal for people who are alert to the danger posed by the worldwide rise of authoritarian religious values, particularly Christian and Islamic fundamentalism, and who want to build a lasting foundation for spiritual freedom through spiritual awakening. To that end, 3MG disseminates information, it questions religious authority, it encourages individuals to look to their own internal authority to discover true spiritual understanding.

Finally, 3MG anticipates major changes in spiritual expression as humanity leaves its earth-bound frame of reference to explore space and, possibly, encounter new life forms. For example, such planetary-based concepts as heaven above and hell below will dissolve in the gravity-free void of space. To adapt, spiritual teachings will need to be as flexible, objective and rational as possible. Like Buddhism, they should be open to or, at least, not contradict an understanding and acceptance of well-established scientific knowledge.