It's been done. Christianity started as Judaism, dropped a lot of the rules and then grabbed some from other places. (no insult, just plain history). Voodoo is mixture of African religions with Christian elements. Some missionary mother fuckers love to claim to be both Christian and Jewish or Jewish worshiping Jesus. Mix and match religion is nothing new and goes on all the time. As long as you take an established base religion, you can go anywhere with it and within a few dozen years and people you have something totally new but still referred to as the base religion. To this day, things that are Christian are referred to as Judeo-Christianity, even though most Jewish elements are gone.
>First, I got this idea from this article: > >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16846962/ > >The point of the article really isn't important, but lines like this >starting getting thinking: > >"The couple attend a fundamental Christian church and follow some teachings >of the Church of Scientology." > >"The Spierings, who apply some tenets of Scientology to their faith, took >the silent birth concept a step further." > >Now what this is clearly saying is that freedom of religion can be applied >(well - at least argued) even if that religion is actually a mish-mash of >multiple religions. > >So, thinking like a computer programmer, I feel that there must be an >algorithm of some kind to maximize return on religious belief. For example >if you claim to be a "Christian who follows some of the teachings of Judism" >then you can claim to need both Easter and Yom Kippur off - but since you're >NOT a Jew you can still eat Pork guilt free! > >Throw in "some of the tenets of Voodun" and you can also butcher chickens >without having to meet state sanitation requirements. Taken the polygamy of >the Mormons if you want more women, the menstrual seclusion of the >Zarathushtri if you want to see your woman less or the celibacy of the >Shakers if you're just plain tired of woman all together. > >Don't want to pop $600 for a PS3? Well, just add a little Amish Anabaptist >in and tell your kids "sorry!" > >In short I think that you could construct a religion to fit your exact >lifestyle, to get off the days you need and to basically live your like as >you want to live it. > >What I propose is a website which consists of religious tenets ("do's and >don'ts", holidays, etc) and a simple application that will let anybody >answer a questionnaire which results in a perfectly tailored religion. > >The site would also have a calendar that would link (preferably) ANY date to >a religion you can adopt to get that day off. > >I really think that this would be useful service to all those poor souls >that have felt uncomfortable with traditional religions but don't want to go >through the hassle of just making up their own religion completely from >scratch. > >This way you get the best of both worlds: respected, traditional religion >with the convenience of buffet-style believe structure. > >Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:226024 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
