starting a new religion

[skyblue]

you have to take parts of existing religions to make it work.......what would you do?

 

[Peter Parka]

Sorry, I'm already committed to a religion

 

[HK]

Any excuse to whip that picture out Peter :ninja


I don't know about creating a whole new religion. I like the idea of karma, and being Jewish is also somewhat fashionable right now.

 

[Siphorous]

Anyone can follow a set of rules religiously, but without faith - it's kind of pointless.

That being said - the provision of meals in Sikh gurdwaras for whomever may wonder in is pretty decent so put that on the list.

 

[BornReady]

Aand being Jewish is also somewhat fashionable right now.

I think you need to be born Jewish for it to be fashionable though.

First thing you need to start a new religion is a prophet. This prophet must have something to offer that a group of people need. And he must not be so crazy as to be dysfunctional but not so sane as to be unable to hear the voice of God.

 

[All Else Failed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_Neopaganism

 

[Codrus]

you have to take parts of existing religions to make it work.......what would you do?

the same thing i always do.....

 

[Johnfromokc]

This one works for me. It's new, or one of the newer religions anyway::



They even have their own car decals:

 

[Johnfromokc]

Oh, and their missionaries are quite delightful.





Check 'em out:



May you be touched by His noodly appendage

http://www.venganza.org/2010/10/halloween-evangelism/

 

[Minor Axis]

Anyone can follow a set of rules religiously, but without faith - it's kind of pointless.

Imagine starting a new religon.... how exactly would you figure out what divine entity holds dominion over your Earthly body, just what are it's rules and expectations, how does it feel about you, and what kind of rewards would it hand out? If your plan is to talk about specifics, what specifically would you talk about?

Of course it would help immensely if one day you stumble across this book that some people wrote up as stories several thousand years ago and that a group of religious devotees got hold of, restructured, rewrote it and then published it as the "word of God" The long lost rules of God! Again, who put this stuff into writing and what gives it the authority of truth? What differentiates it from a comic books?

My illustration demonstrates that making up stuff is hard. Latching onto some ancient story is convenient, but does it inherently contain truth or just a bunch of ancient superstitious mumbo-jumbo? The answer is unknown. Just because it makes you "feel good" does not qualify as truth. You may be gladly kidding yourself.

the same thing i always do.....

Hey, your not fooling me. That's a bad dude from Superman...