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If you could form a new religion, what would it be like? Would you be a new Christ or re-introduce pagan gods?







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Personally, I would re-instigate all the pagan deities of ancient Greece, since religionwould be considerably more fun if it consisted of a plethora of squabbling, entirely human in nature, deities who demand reverence in return for intercession, in contrast a morose old fart in the sky exerting himself to make life no fun.

It would be mostly a tax-free money making scheme. I would convince dumb people that I'm channeling Jesus prior to the second comming and that they can only be saved by contributing money to prepare the way for Jesus' physical return to Earth. I'd also stockpile weapons and hot, gullible women.

If you could form a new religion, what would it be like? Would you be a new Christ or re-introduce pagan gods?







PS: wanna try this out? go to www.particracy.net (http://www.particracy.net)


I would be god! I could do no wrong! :D

It would be mostly a tax-free money making scheme. I would convince dumb people that I'm channeling Jesus prior to the second comming and that they can only be saved by contributing money to prepare the way for Jesus' physical return to Earth. I'd also stockpile weapons and hot, gullible women.

My point precisely, become an oracle or priest of Dionysus in my new pagan faith, and drink, quaff, screw and glutton upon fine food for life!!!!!!!!! :p

I would make a God that is perfect and doesn't need people to worship him. When you die, you suffer all the happiness and pain that you have caused others willingly. Then, you start another life, with your knowledge of the past life completely gone.

It'd be sort of like Islam, but with more beer and nudity.

no central church structure and the only sin would be stupidity and everyone can do whatever they want

I would probably concoct a religion that actually works for the US. The sabbath would be the night of whatever TV show was most popular (you have your friends over and watch it together). The holidays would be Independence Day, Halloween, and Christmas, the latter of which will be reduced to a celebration of childhood materialism. It basically has anyway. The whole community would come together to buy the disadvantaged kids toys, but only to baptise them into capitalism. Such altruism is rare here among adults because we figure they ought to fight for themselves instead; we should make sure we instill that spirit into the children.

The whole religion would be built upon America's favorite values: all men are created equal, then they duke it out severely to find their place. Marraige and family would not be considered important.

no central church structure and the only sin would be stupidity and everyone can do whatever they want

That's like the Church of Satan with no central church structure. Kind of.

It'd be sort of like Islam, but with more beer and nudity.

Don't forget the bacon.

My religion would have a prohibition on talking about religion. To anyone, at any time, for any reason other than to tell people that my religion prohibits me from talking about it.

Other than that, it would be sort of like buddhism, but with more strippers.

id go with a totally "in the house" religion. no outside worship at all. just house shrines to individual gods who have influence over whatever issues you might have in life.

If you could form a new religion, what would it be like? Would you be a new Christ or re-introduce pagan gods?







PS: wanna try this out? go to www.particracy.net (http://www.particracy.net)
What does particracy have to do with religion?

A religion focusing on enjoying and preserving and learning about life on this earth! Booyah!


:headbang: oh for f*cks sake, why don't I just join Greenpeace already?!!!!

you do that: Green Peace rules :cool:

I'd make Universism but some one already did that.

http://universist.org/universismintroduction.htm

It would be like Wicca but postmodernist and highly allegorical, not to mention very far left wing. There would be a beautiful temple in remote mountains and awesome hymns that are comparable in quality to the works of Bach.

I'd promote Ethics of Choice, and of victimless crimes - if it's consensual and harms no-one, it's always okay. I'd also teach people to think for themselves, and not use any parables to get my point across because of misinterpretations that result.

Most importantly, I'd make it clear that the religion would cease to exist after my death, to stop people doing things I didn't like in my name and my religion like what happens in Christianity and Islam, among others, nowadays. I'd encourage people to keep the ethics and ideals I taught alive, just not to use their religion as a weapon.

My religion would be like Rastafarianism.
Except without the God talk.
And you wouldn't have to wear dreads.
And you could just speak whatever language you wanted to as clearly as you wanted to.
And you wouldn't have to wear hats.
And you wouldn't have to like reggae.
But yes. Pretty much exactly the same.

My religion would be based on accomplishing greatness. Basically, think heavily watered down and modified Cthulhuism. From THE MAGNIFICENT URGHL perspective every human being is worth nothing when they are born. From that point on you must accomplish something worthy of your talents (biggest sky scraper, greatest army, large business empire, great cathedrals, most money, most toys, commit the greatest atorcities, most infamy of a certain) that pleases THE MAGNIFICENT URGHL at that particular moment.
Regretfully, THE MAGNIFICENT URGHL is only interested in something for a couple days, because he is so monumentally brilliant and complex that he has thoroughly seen all the potential in a given avenue of humanity by then, and not because he has the maturity of a spastic four year old.
As a result, wealthy people will pay large sums of money to priests of THE MAGNIFICENT URGHL in order to see if he cares about what they've done yet, in order to "get out ahead" if you know what I mean. And I mean inflict violence on their own heads in order to die and gain eternal life.
As a result, their is no such concept as sin, there is simply worthiness and the rest of the chaff. Survival of the fittest, THE MAGNIFICENT URGHL style.