Religion may not be the enemy.

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People join and remain in religion for emotional reasons. Instead of creating a religion, why not find out what people get from religion and create ways for them to get the same needs met in nonreligious ways. For example, many people join churches for the social aspects of being in a group. You could start and promote a group of secular humanists devoted to doing charitable works.


Perhaps your group could incorporate some types of rituals to teach its core concepts? Kwanzaa is a nonreligious celebration, for instance, that teaches many positive values. I am not suggesting that you steal Kwanzaa but it is a good example of using ritual(the lighting of the candles) in a nonreligious fashion.

Hey and if you can create some new atheistic holidays that we can take off of work or school, that would be great! Maybe we could have a holiday in which we eat spaghetti in honor of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Actually, wouldn't it be nice if people had a day devoted to doing good things for one another but in secret? And you can give the reason for that holiday as humans can be kind to one another without a god.