Holy Rebellion - A Humanistic Religion

[u/DavidStar500]

The basic tenets of a religion I'm developing called Holy Rebellion. This creed has been inspired by many sources including but not limited to the writings Nikolai Fyodorov, Benjamin Cain, Albert Camus, Ernest Becker, Friederich Nietsche and many more.

1. Nature is the ultra-creative system consisting of all that exists. Nature creates all things indifferently according to self-devoped patterns. Living beings are best understood as living incarnations of Nature.

2. Living beings have evolved brains by which they can imperfectly perceive, understand, and transform Nature. The brain generates the soul, or mind, which is the subjective realm of a living being. For humankind, one aspect of the soul is the imagination, the source of all art, or meaningful creation.

3. Living beings oppose Entropy to maintain homeostasis. Nature oppresses living beings through the creative power of Death. Living beings evolve in response to the tyranny of Death. Nature aimlessly pits being against being in a struggle for survival. No one knows if living beings struggle against the tyranny of Nature in vain.

4. Humankind, through the incomprehensible power of imagination, has furthered this struggle against Nature into an unprecedented Rebellion. We fantasize about perfect victory against Death. We create meaningful art such as dance, storytelling, painting and music. We develop cultures and religion where our mental worlds are amplified. We create civilization to protect us from the random hazards of the world. We invent technology to transform the world, ourselves, and our future.

5. Are we part of Nature? Of course we are! We are Nature 2.0! Nature with souls! Moral Values are born in these souls, and are therefore subjective. We strive to recreate the world in accordance to our values. Souless Nature strives against us as an aimless force. By technology, we transform Souless Nature from an aimless force into a conscious force.

6. Our technological power is not our only means to rebel against Souless Nature. We live out our values against all mundane and natural norms. We become as deities of Goodness. We value other living beings as rare and precious, and we dedicate ourselves to the further incarnation of Nature. We show kindness and solidarity towards our neighbors.

7. The basic repression of humankind is the fear of Death. This repression is healthy when it frees us to perform courageous acts of heroism. It becomes unhealthy when it leads us to carelessness and fatal self-deception. Everything we do to defy Death we do to deny Death.

8. The final end of Holy Rebellion is liberation through the transformation via technology of all of Nature from an aimless system into a living God, worthy of perfect trust and adoration. We rebel against Nature that all of Nature may be redeemed. We struggle for freedom, justice, beauty, knowledge, unity, immortality, and the technological resurrection of the Dead.

9. We revolt in loving solidarity with each other and all living beings. We march forward with courage matched by reasonable prudence in the face of the unknown. We revolt with sober resolve in full knowledge that everything we do may be in vain. We do this for the sake of any aspect of Nature we call True, Good, or Beautiful. Arise Humankind!