Veganism doesn't promise to save your soul but you do come across a lot of characters in veganism, some of whom enthusiastically preach the good news of veganism as often as they can. They witness to the truth of veganism in their life and how it can change yours for the better.
And veganism is fairly splintered, just like a lot of religions are. Not quite as splintered as some religions are, but there is more than one way to be vegan. It's not quite as simple as not eating animal products and not using animal products. Well, basically, yes. That is it in a nutshell. But just as a religion can be summed up in the words of a creed, it's not as simple as that. The doing it part is a bit more complicated. The same goes for veganism. The doing it part of following a vegan diet is a bit more complicated. There are various ways to actually do it. And whichever you decide to do it, someone somewhere will think that you should be doing it their way. Or disagree with some aspect of what you do. But whichever way we do it, we're all vegan.
We're all vegan but are we all united? Is that true for religions? Not really. I have come across groups of vegans arguing with other groups of vegans over the stupidest details of following a vegan diet. Who cares as long as we are following the basic principle of not eating animal products? Does it really matter, for example, if someone is fully raw or not? No. It matters if they are eating animal products or not. But, just like people who follow a religion, vegans can be prone to get bogged down in minutiae.
I just get on with it. I follow a vegan diet the way that I want to do it and it works for me. And I do it quietly (no preaching).
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