Sunday, March 8, 2009

My Idea of What A Religion Should Be Like

I love the idea of a new and modern religion that has stringent eligibility requirements that reward the honorable.
The type of religion for the honorable that I would like to call my own might be limited to:
---persons who strive for tactful honesty as much as possible, and obedience of the law, on a year-round basis;
---persons who are permanently alcohol-free and tobacco-free and illiict-drug-free at all times;
---persons who have no prior addiction to alcohol, tobacco, or illicit drugs;
---persons who support the overall eventual societal goal of a world without human consumption of drinking alcohol or tobacco or any illicit drug, with the obvious exception of alcohol used in cooking that enhances the flavor of food without any alcohol actually being present in the food or ingested by a human being after the cooking process;
---persons who are dismayed by legalized as well as illegal forms of gambling involving the expenditure of money, and who support a nationwide prohibition on any and all forms of gambling in this nation.
---persons with no criminal-conviction record, or, as a possible alternative membership requirement, persons with no felony-conviction criminal record;
---persons opposed to sado-masochism who themselves lead non-sadomasochistic lifestyles (they don't physically beat or whip their mutual-consent romantic partner or sex partner, for instance, and they don't permit their mutual-consent romantic partner or sex partner to physically beat or physically whip themselves.)
---persons politely dismayed by the lack of facial cleanshavenness on the part of many men and male youths (while of course fully acknowledging that the law generally protects a man's right to grow facial hair on his own body), it being clear to members of this honorable and empathetic modern religion that facial hair not only spreads germs and bacteria, but also undermines the facially hairy male person's ability to present an open and honest and fully friendly face and facial expression to others;
---persons who are dismayed by anonymous communications and fraudulent communications and pranksterism, and who refuse to participate in anonymous communications or fraud of any type or pranksterism;
---persons who are dismayed by the use of "noise pollution" as a weapon on behalf of political or religious persecution or "punishment" or harassment of an individual, regardless of the political or religious beliefs of the individual being victimized and medically and emotionally harmed by unwanted noise pollution in his life;
---persons who are dismayed by the over-emphasis on piano music and electric guitar music in post-Baroque Era music, and who seek to promote and help highlight music that is less intrusive and not as shrill or strident or abusive of the eardrum, the clarinet, the saxophone, the trombone, the trumpet, the flute, the bassoon, the classical guitar, the harp, and the harpsichord being among the gentler or more pleasant-sounding musical instruments that members of this new religion will seek to promote instead;
---persons who generally honor the privacy rights of others, and who do not spy on others or stalk others and subject others to anonymous communications;
---persons who are conscientiously vigilant, and who in a noble manner report evidence of possible illegal conduct they directly observe to a law-enforcement agency, this as an admirable religious lifestyle tradition of theirs.
--persons who support court-ordered capital punishment of legal-status-adult male persons or legal-status-adult female persons who were convicted in a court of law of the heinous and barbarous crime of either homicide or attempted homicide, with a possible proposed requirement that compelling DNA evidence must be obtained before court-ordered capital punishment per se could be justifiable, with help from a possible revision of the state penal code on that;
---individuals who assign highest priority in their religious life to helping to befriend children and many other young persons under age 30, including through educational workshops or exhibits such as wholesome Hobby Fairs and Lifelong
Sports Festivals that might help to introduce young persons to a wide array of law-abiding, creative, and enjoyable pastimes and hobbies and lifelong sports (among those being paddle-boating, croquet, badminton, shuffleboard, journal-writing or diary-writing, photography, developing a pen friendship with a young person in another country, theme-related stamp collecting (collecting postage stamps relating to nature and environmental protection, for instance), rowing, table tennis, racquetball, tennis, collecting picture postcards from throughout one's state or region of the country, etc.)
---individuals with a commendable devotion to helping to protect the global environment, and helping to conserve natural resources in a comprehensive manner, including through participation in natural-resource recycling.
---individuals who emphatically reject the outlook of many that human identity is primarily sexual in nature, or that human identity is primarily gender-related in nature, it being very clear that 99 to 100 percent of all human relationships, including personal relationships as well as career-related relationships, in life are, in fact, platonic in nature, and that it's crucial for each human being to strive to achieve platonic inter-personal credibility with other people, including members of the opposite sex;
---individuals who are kind-hearted and generous, and who exhibit a very kind empathy and generosity and strong support for Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Assembly and Freedom of Association toward law-abiding individuals of a wide variety of religious backgrounds and ideologies;
---individuals who are generously devoted to helping to reward law-abiding persons who are "whistle-blowers" reporting wrong-doing and corruption to a law-enforcement agency;
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