Tired of Your Old Religion? Try Something New for a Change

[MineralMan]

Most of the religions of the world are old standby faiths. If they're not working for you, there are new belief systems launched from time to time that might appeal to you. Some are offshoots of older religions, with a new slant on the old themes. Others are brand new and have unique ideas of their own. Is one right for you?

Here's a list of New Religious Movements, with links to information about almost all of them. Some might not seem that new, but compared to religions that date back a couple of millennia, they're newborn babes, still in diapers. So, if you're growing weary of your old bronze or iron age belief system, you might find a new one that is more relevant to believe in and follow.

Do some of those in the list sound a little wacky? Well, have patience with them and learn more. After all, the old religions are pretty wacky in their own ways, right? Check 'em out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_new_religious_movements

[Onyrleft]

1. We need more slack today.

[MineralMan]

2. J. R. "Bob" Dobbs has all the answers you can use.

Indeed.

[Major Nikon]

3. I always thought it would be fun to be a Pentecostal

Imagine the fun you could have at parties showing off your snake charming skills and immunity from poison.

[MineralMan]

4. Plus speaking in tongues is a great party trick.

Amaze your friends...

[Bretton Garcia]

5. All the new versions of "spirituality" too !?

Spirituality has big problems. So I dont support it.

But at its best, or in its most self flattering description, it supported generosity, tolerance, etc.. Which seem like useful qualities.

Granted, religion seldom if ever managed to be that good, overall.

But in any case, how would we teach those sought-after and possibly still-useful qualities; of generosity, etc ?

I guess the better, atheist replacement would be 1) rationality and 2) maturity.

We could also note that 3) secular liberalism also seems to be fair and generous and so forth.

So we could argue that secularism, atheism, aims at some the few if any good things spirituality aimed at. And does them better

[Bretton Garcia]

6. Meantime, religion does still deserve lots of ridicule.

We should not be too tolerant of religion.