[Jake Sapiens]
I think that if we can configure our understanding of "religion", to more essentially involve mythology (of a more realistic quality) and render supernaturalism unnecessary, that we can succeed in creating a religious strain of CoV.
The fact that religion in the US enjoys considerable freedom of operation (perhaps too much by some estimations) as well as constitutional recognition and protection, certainly could benefit CoV as well as it does more traditional religions.
[rhinoceros]
A Virian Mythology! That could be a good start for a religion. It should follow human history and especially the history of science, with gods, semi-gods and titans emerging and falling. It should be closer to pagan mythologies with no good-evil polarity; just gods carrying both good and evil in them and motivated by both their own memeplexes and the winds of their time. The final text of the scripture should be lucid and poetic.
Well... maybe I am asking too much, since I have not enough time to contribute...
Nah...A mythology would be made of either false information, or information that might one day turn out to be false.
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This message was posted by rhinoceros to the Virus 2003 board on Church of Virus BBS.
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