Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5540892" data-attributes="member: 4937">If current trends in spirituality were to continue for another few centuries, the most likely resulting vanilla religion would be some sort of neo-paganism rooted in pantheism, socialism, and scienticism.Basic tenents:1) Everything is God.  We are all part of the great cosmic process that is God.  We are the part of the God Universe that looks back at itself.  Our highest duty therefore is to study and praise the universe generally, and our fellow selves particularly.2) Deities are man's natural understanding of the great processes of the All-Nature-God/Goddesss, or specific way of relating to things that are too large for us to understand.   There are as many deities as there are ways of looking at the universe.  All relgions throughout history are simply individual expressions of our collective human understanding. 3) The greatest dieties are Father Space and Mother Earth, the dual aspects of the universe, the yin-yang, the nothing and the something, order and change.  All dieties are merely reflections of one of these two greatest modalities, which are themselves simply the greatest modalities of the all. The star dust of cold Father Space fell on the warm gravity womb of Mother Earth and brought forth life.4) The purpose of life is to fill the universe with life in every warm spot that Mother Earth has provided.  All life should be cherished and respected.  All life should be encouraged to evolve to meet its intended niche.  The purpose of mankind is through its own striving to survive, to provide shelter for the rest of life from clamity and never to exploit or destroy life for selfish purposes.That should be sufficiently generic as to not reference any particular modern religion, but sufficiently familiar so as to seem believably comfortable and attractive to the majority of 21st century players.  Now, if you want something a bit wierder, I'll have to do some brain storming.</blockquote>

Verification