So I'm starting my own religion today. I'm using a rather loose definition of religion, "A pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance".
My religion does not subscribe to any supernatural deity. There could be one or there could not be one. It doesn't really matter.
However, my religion does place importance on morality. I'm also using a rather loose definition of morality, "human conduct".
In my religion there is an assumption that most human beings possess 3 tools. Not all human beings do, but certainly most do. These tools are knowledge, reason, and empathy.
Knowledge is awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation.
Reason is the process of thinking, understanding, and forming judgements.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Based on these three tools, human beings can discern good human conduct from poor human conduct.
For example, if I hit you, then my knowledge tells me it probably hurt, my empathy tells me that you probably didn't like it, and my reason tells me that you will probably want to hit me back, hence I know that hitting people is probably not good human conduct.
It really is that simple.
From these premises of my religion, I have discerned what I consider to be among the poorest forms of human conduct. When an individual chooses another authority to decide for them the difference between poor human conduct and good human conduct, then they have abdicated what has ultimately made them unique and special as a human being. In a sense they have enslaved themselves to the beliefs of others.
What do you think of my religion? Obviously I'm not looking for converts.
My religion does not subscribe to any supernatural deity. There could be one or there could not be one. It doesn't really matter.
However, my religion does place importance on morality. I'm also using a rather loose definition of morality, "human conduct".
In my religion there is an assumption that most human beings possess 3 tools. Not all human beings do, but certainly most do. These tools are knowledge, reason, and empathy.
Knowledge is awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation.
Reason is the process of thinking, understanding, and forming judgements.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Based on these three tools, human beings can discern good human conduct from poor human conduct.
For example, if I hit you, then my knowledge tells me it probably hurt, my empathy tells me that you probably didn't like it, and my reason tells me that you will probably want to hit me back, hence I know that hitting people is probably not good human conduct.
It really is that simple.
From these premises of my religion, I have discerned what I consider to be among the poorest forms of human conduct. When an individual chooses another authority to decide for them the difference between poor human conduct and good human conduct, then they have abdicated what has ultimately made them unique and special as a human being. In a sense they have enslaved themselves to the beliefs of others.
What do you think of my religion? Obviously I'm not looking for converts.
