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Form independent opinions on the basis of your own reason and experience; do not allow yourself to be led blindly by others. Question everything. Dawkins uses these proposed commandments to make a larger point that "it is the sort of list that any ordinary, decent person today would come up with".
Open-source religions employ open-source methods for the sharing, construction, and adaptation of religious belief systems, content, and practice. [1] In comparison to religions utilizing proprietary, authoritarian, hierarchical, and change-resistant structures, open-source religions emphasize sharing in a cultural Commons, participation, self-determination, decentralization, and evolution.
[6]: 162 [8] [12] M. A. R. Barker, a linguist and game designer (creator of the Tékumel setting), wrote an article Create a Religion In Your Spare Time for Fun and Profit (1980) which presented his detailed guidelines for the construction of fictional religion for games, effectively recommending that any fictional religion that is to be taken ...
Theological fiction is fictional writing which shapes or depicts people's attitudes towards theological beliefs. [1] [2] [3] It is typically instructional or exploratory rather than descriptive, [4] and it engages specifically with the theoretical ideas which underlie and shape typical responses to religion. [5]
[11] [36] [37] In 2018, Florida eased restrictions on HCSMs, changing the criteria from mandating that an HCSM have people of the same religion to having people who "share a common set of ethical or religious beliefs". [36] Due to the lax requirements, Oliver founded the church Our Lady of Perpetual Health, which owned the HCSM "JohnnyCare".
"Viruses of the Mind" is an essay by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, first published in the book Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind (1993). Dawkins originally wrote the essay in 1991 and delivered it as a Voltaire Lecture on 6 November 1992 at the Conway Hall Humanist Centre.
Further examples in North America are the Ghost Dance, and the religion of Handsome Lake. Santo Daime is a syncretic religion founded in Brazil that incorporates elements of several religious or spiritual traditions including Folk Catholicism, Kardecist Spiritism, African animism, and indigenous South American shamanism, including vegetalismo.
In expressing God's intent, these manifestations are seen to establish religion in the world. Baháʼí teachings state that God is too great for humans to fully comprehend, nor to create a complete and accurate image. [10] Bahá'u'lláh often refers to God by titles, such as the "All-Powerful" or the "All-Loving".