Is improvement of religion as important as improvement of laundry detergent?

[Boojatta]

If it is, then I would expect people to be willing to invest in research and development to create new and improved religions.

If you can identify something good about a given religion, then you can identify a criterion that a good religion should satisfy. Once you have a list of criteria, you can try to create a religion that satisfies every criterion on the list.

[Angry Dragon]

1. But first you have to find the correct god

[Boojatta]

3. Why? If it's to be a book-based religion, then why not start

by creating a first draft of the book?

[Angry Dragon]

5. I never said anything about a book

and you never said anything about about
not fair throwing new things in at a whim

Many religions never had written directions

[liberaltrucker]

2. Laundry detergent has a purpose

Religion doesn't. Other than to separate
and alienate people.

In an ideal world, religion wouldn't exist.

[Larry Ogg]

4. I think wolves in sheep's clothing depend more on dirt than they do laundry detergent...

And the delusional fantasies of the most gullible tend to make evil look squeaky clean regardless of soap or pristine truth...

[LAGC]

6. Right now, as I type, there is a new religion being born.

But if it doesn't have a captivating story and a charismatic leader to spread the message, it will die with the inventor of the religion.

I'm sure there are hundreds of new religions springing forth every month around the world, only to die a quick death. Only a very lucky few have the leadership and the captivating enough story to become a memeplex and spread to enough die-hard followers to really catch on.

New ideas are like viruses. Some more contagious than others.

[dimbear]

7. Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Consider switching to new improved Tide.

[edhopper]

8. Paul Kurtz created

a secular way of life called Eurpraxia. A "religion" without belief, if you will.

"Eupraxsophy

Kurtz coined the term eupraxsophy (originally eupraxophy) to refer to philosophies or lifestances such as secular humanism and Confucianism that do not rely on belief in the transcendent or supernatural. A eupraxsophy is a nonreligious lifestance or worldview emphasizing the importance of living an ethical and exuberant life, and relying on rational methods such as logic, observation and science (rather than faith, mysticism or revelation) toward that end. The word is based on the Greek words for "good", "practice", and "wisdom." Eupraxsophies, like religions, are cosmic in their outlook, but eschew the supernatural component of religion, avoiding the "transcendental temptation," as Kurtz puts it. Although critical of supernatural religion, he has attempted to develop affirmative ethical values of naturalistic humanism.<4> Kurtz's Eupraxophy, then, is a practical analysis of morality that has much in common (if it is not identical to) the philosophy behind the Science of morality."

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. I will vote for secular humanism.

Morality without religion, morality without reward or punishment.

Doing good because it's the right thing to do. That's enough.

Or I'll take Buddhism. Morality without god or gods.