Finding My Religion / February 6 2008
For a while now, I have been toying with the idea of starting a new religion.
It isn’t that I feel inadequately provided for or spiritually bereft in any way, neither am I living in purgatory or suffering any kind moral agony - it is simply that I think the time is right for a creed that is innovative, clean and fresh.
I am as entitled as the next man to invent and describe the divine and I am tempted to do so sometime in the near future. But, for the time being at least, my theological course - and indeed the very nature of my beliefs, is slightly inchoate.
I have no idea what the ethos of my religion will be, what fundamental elements it will encompass, what it will be called, or to what universal truths it will eventually aspire, only that it will endeavour to be benign, compassionate and all-embracing. More significantly, it will be uncorrupted by centuries of extremism and abuse.
My religion will be liberal and civilised and ultimately objective in essence, unlike most of the established faiths which seem to me to be handicapped by atavistic barbarism.
Love is all you need. Who’s in?
Filed under Extremism / Faith / God / Hope / Life / Religion / Thoughts
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2 comments on “Finding My Religion”
Nelson Galaxy / February 6th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I’m in. Love is all I need . . . oh and money . . . and clothes . . . and booze . . . and this lampshade
Napoleon Fantastic / February 6th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
And a frozen lake with humming birds whispering in your ear.
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