Starting A Religion
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under ideaDRUNK's ideas
Start a religion based around environmentalism. Not some extreme tree-hugger stuff, but something that is a little bit of a farce and humourous. This was my favourite idea from our inaugural Idea Session. What if we created a fake religion around respecting and protecting the environment? It creates a foundation for belief and education, just like a real religion. We create a Bible, a set of Ten Commandments, even a Church!
A religion is a set of beliefs and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and codified as prayer, ritual, and religious law. Can we not do the same for a belief in the environment? Indigenous cultures have worshiped the deity of mother earth for centuries. All we are doing is updating it to a modern day reality … albeit with a bit of humour and farce. We don’t want to come across as a science fiction cult (like Scientology).
A religion could leverage all of the disparate environmental causes and unite people under one common cause. It could generate an enormous cult following, as people embrace a more unified (and humourous) environmental message.
The Pastafarian version of Michaelangelo’s “Creation of Adam”
Inspired by the likes of the Church of the Fonz (thank you Family Guy) and Pastafarians at The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster I think our unnamed environmentally-based religion could work! All we need is a name. Suggestions? I checked, and Christianity is already taken.
- Christian
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“Gaiantics”
Mother Earth and comical behaviour in one!
Nice Tien!
Other options that were in my head:
Disciples of Suzuki
The Church of the Green Finger
Earthology
and The Best Damn Religion Ever
However, I think your name is better than all of those.
Disciples of Suzuki is pretty good.
How about “The Church of the Aboriginals Told Us So”?
why don’t you start a religion around health? huh? polar bears are winning i see…
Can I call you L. Ron Parsons?