My Idea For A New Religion

[StarryStarryNight]

Hello to all the members of Religious Forums, I have just joined and would like to know your opinion on my 'Idea for a New Religion' which I've posted on the ABCtales website. (Unfortunately, I can't post a Link to it but my name is Well-Wisher on ABCtales)

I will sum up the core beliefs of my religion:

1) The Universe is a living being, God.
2) Since we are all part of God (Limbs of God) then we
a) Have a duty to behave morally and serve the common good
b)Respect all people and things in nature (Because they are also part of God)
3) Demons/The Devil are an other dimensional psychic parasite that feeds
upon suffering and thus generates suffering in the world
4) Angels are psychic symbiants that feed upon happiness and thus help human kind and try to generate happiness in the world.
5) All souls are part of one soul, the Soul of God (Oceanic Soul) when we die, our separate, individual souls flow back into the one soul of God.
6) There is no Hell. Instead, all that is evil within us is separated out and discarded
like a poison while all that is good within us is reborn.

 

[StarryStarryNight]

I'd also like to add that, in my religion, Diversity is sacred (all races,genders, faiths, creeds, abilities) and Homosexuality is considered a sacred part of the natural order (Sexual Symmetry).

Democracy, Socialism, Civil Liberties, Equality and Environmentalism are also considered sacred and the goal of my religion is just to make a better world/reduce the suffering in the world to a minimum. The People are God and the power of God is within them.

 

[Iti oj]

How did creation happen? Does it allow room for evolution? Is their a holy book? Holy services? How do you worship?

 

[StarryStarryNight]

Evolution is considered a process within the universal anatomy, just as there are biological processes of the human body.

The universe is constantly changing and life continuously branching out, exploring every direction. In my religion this is the result of God/The universal organism's self exploration. God wants to be a more efficient organism and evolution is part of its quest for self-improvement.

Just to clarify, in my religion "Universe" actually means "multiverse". What we consider the universe is actually part of a larger cosmic being and rather than a creator it is a 'Mother'
or 'The Womb of Creation'.

The 'book' is 'Idea for a new religion' that I posted on ABCtales under the name of Well-Wisher . All information regarding customs and practices of the 'religion' are contained there.

It is only a hypothetical religion. Perhaps its better to call it a belief system. It hasn't any followers

 

[zenzero]

Friend SSN,

Whatever you have stated are already there, no need to formalize anything except each individual to realize TRUTH and by doing so they become enlightened individuals and just merely by being enlightened they become that part or medium for existence to evolve.

We already have enough ways and paths labelled religions t reach the state of enlightenment and few more or less is not going to change anything much but surely if one more individual reaches to enlightenment surely the whole existence evolves.

Love & rgds

 

[StarryStarryNight]

FriendZZ,


"Whatever you have stated are already there, no need to formalize anything"


Life is formalized. Look at a flower. Form is part of the 'Truth'.


"We already have enough ways and paths labelled religions t reach the state of enlightenment and few more or less is not going to change anything".


Perhaps or perhaps old religions must die and new ones be born as everything in nature.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Starry, I was just wondering, do you believe God's main focus is Earth?

 

[Quintessence]

1) The Universe is a living being, God.
2) Since we are all part of God (Limbs of God) then we
a) Have a duty to behave morally and serve the common good
b)Respect all people and things in nature (Because they are also part of God)

I don't see how 2 follows from 1. Why do we have these duties because we are all parts of God? What is it about God that demands these kinds of duties? This is not made clear in what you've posted so far.

 

[StarryStarryNight]

"I don't see how 2 follows from 1. Why do we have these duties because we are all parts of God? What is it about God that demands these kinds of duties? This is not made clear in what you've posted so far."

All of the parts of my body serve a function. They exist to serve the whole. If I am part of the anatomy of God then is it not logical that I should serve a function?

 

[StarryStarryNight]

Starry, I was just wondering, do you believe God's main focus is Earth?

No. The universe is a big place and the Earth is only a small part of it. I think that similar religions probably exist wherever there is intelligent life.

 

[Quintessence]

All of the parts of my body serve a function. They exist to serve the whole. If I am part of the anatomy of God then is it not logical that I should serve a function?

This kind of functionalism can be contested, but I'll run with that for the moment. There's another question that is begged here if we grant this functionalistic philosophy: how is the function of something known and/or discerned? In other words, how do you know what the correct "role" or "function" is for something in the universe? How do you know it ought to be THIS instead of THAT?

 

[StarryStarryNight]

This kind of functionalism can be contested, but I'll run with that for the moment. There's another question that is begged here if we grant this functionalistic philosophy: how is the function of something known and/or discerned? In other words, how do you know what the correct "role" or "function" is for something in the universe? How do you know it ought to be THIS instead of THAT?

Quintessence this is not just a philosophy, its a faith. My mind communicates with my hand unless there is some injury or illness preventing it doing so. Some instinctively know the will of God and others do not because, as I also mentioned
in the core beliefs, there are demons that prevent the human race from functioning properly. This is the religion of a sick, disabled, malfunctioning world that needs to unite and heal itself.

 

[Quintessence]

Okay. I ask these questions because I'm trying to grasp your angle on this here and how you decide you know certain things. Intuitive or gut feelings - faith if you want to use that word - is one way of going about that. Your intuition (or what have you) tells you the world is dystopian and ought to be some way other than what it is. Because I disagree with that, I'm trying to understand where that perspective is coming from; how you come to "know" this as it were. Your knowing is a gut feeling, right?

 

[StarryStarryNight]

Okay. I ask these questions because I'm trying to grasp your angle on this here and how you decide you know certain things. Intuitive or gut feelings - faith if you want to use that word - is one way of going about that. Your intuition (or what have you) tells you the world is dystopian and ought to be some way other than what it is. Because I disagree with that, I'm trying to understand where that perspective is coming from; how you come to "know" this as it were. Your knowing is a gut feeling, right?

Well, its a combination of things. It started as a search for a meaning to life.
I saw that all living things were dependent upon one another for their existence
and so that seemed to me a 'purpose' that was observable in nature; serving
all of life.

Then I started to feel a connection to nature and not just to nature but to the distant stars aswell and the oneness of everything became more than just an idea to me, it became an awareness.

Then I began to notice parallels between the body and my individual life with the wider world and it seemed like there were clues everywhere to solving somekind of enormous puzzle.

The eventual conclusion that I reached was that I was part of a vast living organism but then I had to make sense of the scale of suffering in the world, things like genocide and world wars and that is what led me towards my conclusion that it must be a kind of sickness.

And I also thought about Jesus; the wounded man and thought; perhaps he symbolizes the wounded body of our world and then I started to see the divisions
between people as gaping wounds.

Gut instict was part of it but, Quintessence, my feeling that the world could be better is a common feeling felt by the majority of people, both people of faith and atheists and my 'belief system' also grew out of a frustration with existing 'belief systems', I didn't feel that any of them really explained anything to me about
the purpose of my life.

 

[Storm]

In all honesty, I don't think anything in the op is original enough to warrant calling it a new religion. It's basically just pan(en)theism with a Christian devil grafted on.

 

[Quintessence]

Okay. I follow you for the most part, though my beliefs are a bit different (particularly the suffering bit). Storm's description sounds pretty accurate: that you could be classified in a pantheistic & Christian context in developing this religion. Unlike Storm, I don't think the fact that what you do could be categorized under pre-existing belief systems means it isn't a new religion. I also don't think the label "new" and "old" means much of anything either.

 

[StarryStarryNight]

Well, I'm thankful for the opinions of everyone whose commented. One thing I forgot to mention about my belief system is that its really supposed to be a peoples religion. It has a system of elected priests. Democracy, socialism and freedom of speech are sacred; it allows followers to add to and change the religion; it encourages political demonstration and a belief that the power to change things
rests in the people united.

To be honest, I also wanted a religion that would get results/ motivate people to change the world because existing big wealthy organized religions didn't seem to be doing enough.

I agree that much of my belief system may not be original but surely all the big world religions have borrowed ideas.

 

[Storm]

We don't need new organizations so much as new ideas, imo.

 

[Lentity]

In all honesty, I don't think anything in the op is original enough to warrant calling it a new religion. It's basically just pan(en)theism with a Christian devil grafted on.

In fact more are finding common ground among all defined religions. While the details may be quite diverse, there's a similar thread running through all established religions. Even among the known versions of Pagan Pantheons there is essentially a chief Godhead overseeing all the dieties or gods. Both monotheistic and polyistic, though this sounds contradictory initially. Consider the opening line of Gen 1:26 that depicts Yahweh or Jehovah as both One and, "Us" or a, "We". A sort of massive and all encompassing multiple consort of singular intent, despite the half witted theo-logic surrounding the Trinity concept that saw Jesus alone as somehow Father, son and Holy Ghost all in onebodily form. Jesus was either a real human being or not. There's no such thing as some pseudo human/divinity form potential that would have any viable meaning in terms of real human suffering or the Crucifixion. Regardless of what the Bible states as supposed fact. Or who's Jesus praying to at the Rock? Himself? Why would Jesus even need to pray if he and the Father are already one? Finally, evil, Satan or anything of the sort can't just happen out of nowhere all of it's own accord or free will. God also created the realm of what we perceive as free will too. 'They' Who would know the end before the beginning by continuance of connective logic would also have created the provision for evil to exist as well.
"God, oh our God. Why hast thou forsaken us?" Ponderous...

 

[Lentity]

"...Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. On earth as it is in heaven."

WE THE LORD
"We The People"
With liberty and justice for all!

It's inevitable and unavoidable. Faith or no faith. But before the concept can spread over the entire earth as a single united sovereign, functional time for capital markets and conflicting sovereign interests will become exhausted and things will certainly get ugly indeed.