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30 Aug 2008, 5:09 am

How easy is it to start a religion?

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30 Aug 2008, 5:21 am

Eggman wrote:

How easy is it to start a religion?

Carve some wood and give it a name. Use the leftover wood for heating your home/cooking.

Isaiah 44:9-17

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30 Aug 2008, 5:40 am

Easy.

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30 Aug 2008, 6:08 am

I was hoping this thread would have Zakk Wylde in.

Yay!

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30 Aug 2008, 7:13 am

Depends, if your simply creating yet another interpretation of Christianity (or any other major religion) then it shouldn't be much tougher then your average nonprofit group. This is because you can simply be a legitimate theologian.

If you want to start a completely new religion, you need to portray yourself (probably falsely) as some kind of prophet. You then have to use complicated methods of coercive persuasion to win converts. You then have to endure being attacked by Militant Atheists and Christians at the same time. If you are trying to rob your followers, you have to hide it from authorities, I personally recommend swiss bank accounts. It's quite complicated and very difficult to get away with, I wouldn't recommend it.

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30 Aug 2008, 7:25 am

Instead of all that, you could serve Mountain Dew!! !

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30 Aug 2008, 10:00 am

how easy is it to start a USEFUL religion?
:scratch:

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30 Aug 2008, 10:30 am

It's hard to think of a brand new one, I thought of one, but Scientology has already been started. I can't make a religion to worship Satan as a deity, among others, in the politheist sense, it wouldn't be original.

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30 Aug 2008, 11:11 am

Ask L. Ron Hubbard.

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30 Aug 2008, 11:18 am

prometheuspann wrote:

how easy is it to start a USEFUL religion? :scratch:

BUWAHAHAHAHAHAH ... good one!

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30 Aug 2008, 2:27 pm

Any system of beliefs should be judged by the veracity and historicity of the truth claims made.

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30 Aug 2008, 6:20 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

Any system of beliefs should be judged by the veracity and historicity of the truth claims made.

BUWAHAHAHAHAHAH ... another good one! They just keep on coming...

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31 Aug 2008, 1:49 am

aybe if I got corpoarte sponsering?

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31 Aug 2008, 2:13 am

Fnord wrote:

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

Any system of beliefs should be judged by the veracity and historicity of the truth claims made.

BUWAHAHAHAHAHAH ... another good one! They just keep on coming...

stop your useless spamming it contributes nothing

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31 Aug 2008, 2:19 am

AdolfOscarMayer wrote:

Fnord wrote:

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

Any system of beliefs should be judged by the veracity and historicity of the truth claims made.

BUWAHAHAHAHAHAH ... another good one! They just keep on coming...

stop your useless spamming it contributes nothing

Whats so different between 'agreed' and 'buwahahahahah' both mean the same thing and saying you agree with a comment is useful as it helps judge opinions. I would suggest that you stop being authoritarian because that is often not helpful.

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31 Aug 2008, 2:25 am

AdolfOscarMayer wrote:

Fnord wrote:

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

Any system of beliefs should be judged by the veracity and historicity of the truth claims made.

BUWAHAHAHAHAHAH ... another good one! They just keep on coming...

stop your useless spamming it contributes nothing

He might have been in the wrong thread perhaps, sounded kinda excited "keep on cumming".

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