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Faith v2.x.y
I'm a Buddhist! A Pagan, an Agnostic, or Muslim. A Christian, a Hindu, Atheist, or Satanist. Possibly Jewish. So in answer to the question " Which religion is the right one for you?" I'd have to say all of them. Or none of them. But even no religion is a religion, so I'm never going to get away from it. Hence I'm going to start my own.
I'll need sacred texts - rather handily I don't believe any one religion can claim outright dominion over truth - so I can be lazy and just lift everybody else's. I'll simply have to include Dischordianism and Bokononism because they make me laugh and make as much sense as the standard religions. And if I'm including Vonnegut then I have to include Adams - so let's face it subsuming all literature would be simpler. Actually, lets make all fictional media sacred (with the obvious exception of the "and comment" bit of "news and comment").
The only thing I need now is something no other religion has. Something mystical which theologians can argue about for rest of time. This is actually quite easy:
dd if=/dev/random of=dogma bs=41997 count=51
And finally some guidance for the membership:
- Thou shalt remember there is more than one way to do it
- Thou shalt keep it simple: stupid
- Thou shalt not proselytise (unless you really want to)
- Thou shalt have faith (unless you really need to)
And there we go, a new religion. All I need now is a catchy name.