New religions in 21st century
May 16, 2016 at 8:48 am
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2016 at 8:51 am by Fake Messiah.)
OK this is probably not much of a topic since it is considered that religions are on decline, but still when you think (aside from suicide cults) during XX. century there were created quite disturbing amounts of new religions despite of better scientific understanding of the world. Let me remind you some of the biggest ones that come to my mind: Hare Krishna, Sai-Babism, Scientology, Wicca, Rastafari, Raelians, New Age, Transcendental Meditation, Anthroposophy, even The Church of Satan.
And when talking about Krishnas I could never understand how can those people take seriously their leader that never washes off that bird shit on his face?
![[Image: srila-ac-bhaktivedanta-swami-prabhupada-36.jpg]](https://gopinathmath.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/srila-ac-bhaktivedanta-swami-prabhupada-36.jpg)
Maybe some of the reasons was giant population growth so that all these people are members of new religions without really draining from congregations of existing religions.
I do wonder if 21st century will be as fruitful when it comes to religions. To me it seems that it won't be because of the internet which makes people share information faster and debunk them faster. So far there hasn't been new one yet and compared to last century in last one there was already a new religion in 1908: Thelema.
And when talking about Krishnas I could never understand how can those people take seriously their leader that never washes off that bird shit on his face?
Maybe some of the reasons was giant population growth so that all these people are members of new religions without really draining from congregations of existing religions.
I do wonder if 21st century will be as fruitful when it comes to religions. To me it seems that it won't be because of the internet which makes people share information faster and debunk them faster. So far there hasn't been new one yet and compared to last century in last one there was already a new religion in 1908: Thelema.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
