How hard is it to start a new religion?
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Maybe you can take all the aspects of current religions and unify them in some way, that way you can say THIS is the ONE TRUE religion.
Sometimes I wonder if in the future there will be only one religion.
Sometimes I wonder if in the future there will be only one religion.
I am for having a "God Day" where we pick one day in which every single human on the face of the earth all meditates at the same time and asks for a sign from God which will be televised around the world. If this sign is given we will know who God is and we will have one religion.
But what about the "Atheists?"
I just go on the revelation which I've recieved.
Scientology.
If someone wanted to start a new religion today, and gain a mass of followers, would it be possible? How many followers would that person or group of people gain? Could someone go on Youtube and proclaim a vision they had from God, and then start a new religion based on that vision?
I wonder if new religions would still be created today if technology and communication wasn't as advanced as it is. If I lived in the early 1st century, I would have brilliantly predicted that the religion which would last the longest would be the one which occured closest to the era of technology and communications advamcement. Because as soon as that era occured, no new religion could be made since everything that happens would be recorded and on the news. If Jesus existed today instead of 2000 years ago, then having faith in Jesus would be a matter of browsing through the newspaper or watching CNN (or Fox News -).
Yeah man you're right all those people thousands of years ago who started religions and taught people to do good deeds and seek the truth, what the hell were they thinking?
Oh yeah thousands of new religions were made...but if you're talking about a new major religion lets look at history, this new technological age you're talking about began less than 100 years ago....:
500 BCE - Buddhism is started
30 AD - Christianity is started
600s - Islam is started
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Thousands of years pass...nothing really new....it seems like every 500 years or so a new religion is started so just wait for the 2400s...
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You fool I'm talking about the people who started the religions themselves....
You do know that the Hindu description of Kalki is almost identical to the 2nd coming of Jesus right? I mean almost everything about it is similar...as for the Islamic, Judaic, and Buddhist prophecies they all have many more differences...
not at all difficult
SB 7.15.12: There are five branches of irreligion, appropriately known as irreligion [vidharma], religious principles for which one is unfit [para-dharma], pretentious religion [ābhāsa], analogical religion [upadharma] and cheating religion [chala-dharma]. One who is aware of real religious life must abandon these five as irreligious.
SB 7.15.13: Religious principles that obstruct one from following his own religion are called vidharma. Religious principles introduced by others are called para-dharma. A new type of religion created by one who is falsely proud and who opposes the principles of the Vedas is called upadharma. And interpretation by one's jugglery of words is called chala-dharma.
SB 7.15.14: A pretentious religious system manufactured by one who willfully neglects the prescribed duties of his order of life is called ābhāsa [a dim reflection or false similarity]. But if one performs the prescribed duties for his particular āśrama or varṇa, why are they not sufficient to mitigate all material distresses?
That is not what Jesus taught....
Thats a very minor part of Jesus's teachings, who taught if you must fear something, fear God, nothing else, do not fear petty things in life, what about the rest of his teachings? Your atheistic mind must have blocked the rest of his teachings out....
LOL. Okay you smart asses (LG, VO, IAC, etc.).
How much black magic is there being performed today?
How many law-defying miracles are being performed today?
Has anyone risen from the dead lately?
How many demons are being sent out of people today?
The answer to all four questions: ZERO.
Funny how nothing supernatural exists in the age of technology and television. If someone turned water into wine today, it would be all over the news. There would be no vague, undated Bible or some other ancient scripture. There woud be VIDEO. Video for everyone to see.
All you Christians, how did Peter and John, the early Christian fathers. spread Christianity among the masses?
How much black magic is there being performed today?
How many law-defying miracles are being performed today?
Has anyone risen from the dead lately?
How many demons are being sent out of people today?
The answer to all four questions: ZERO.
Funny how nothing supernatural exists in the age of technology and television. If someone turned water into wine today, it would be all over the news. There would be no vague, undated Bible or some other ancient scripture. There woud be VIDEO. Video for everyone to see.
All you Christians, how did Peter and John, the early Christian fathers. spread Christianity among the masses?
lol.
OK, so you want a large following, and longevity, .... tricky. I'd still go a variation on xtianity, but don't go too far too fast, herd the flock, so to speak. Setting yourself up as the 2nd coming would be sweet if you could pull it off. People would expect new teaching from the new messiah, and to leave the old school behind. get practising your miracles!
not zero
just considerably less than what you may be likely to find in history due to the more recent advent of fully fledged gross materialism - you can still go to many places in south america and the himalayas to get a different grasp on the stats
lol - funny what does exist in the age of technology and television if you asked me
why would an intelligent person want to be famous in this contemporary world?