| Or is it too late for a brand new religion to begin and eventually grow into the worlds largest? I mean most religions followed were already set down way back when. Is the world too different/science driven now for a new one to show up? Only way I can see it happening is if the world banks collapse, everyone lives in slums and theres no hope. Would be a perfect place for a new religion preaching any kind of new rise/hope to gain followers and turn from a cult to a real religion. |
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| The ONLY way a new religion can rise, and become excepted by younger, non-religious people, is if it doesn't prevent people from "Being Themselves." I created "Dragonitsu" as a belief system to work in the modern world, with no sins, no dogma, no commandments, and no heaven or hell. Shinto was definitely an inspiration for it. |
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Rakaxo said: Well i did join a new religion for a month ago. We are gonna a have a party with Kool-Aid as drinks next week. I can't wait. I thought they only had those parties when comets passed or something |
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Rakaxo said: Well i did join a new religion for a month ago. We are gonna a have a party with Kool-Aid as drinks next week. I can't wait.  |
| Most of the new religions are cults which are bad especially Scientology. |
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vonrox said: well i see more and more atheists or agnostics proclaimed, they can unite their ideals and will form a religion Atheism can never be a religion. |
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| Yep. Half of the religions are just other religions with the pieces they don't like missing. |
 This man has a big potential to become a God in the future |
| WEABOO SCIENTIST |
| New ones can arise, but I don't see any rising to become the top one. Recent ones like humanism, militant anti-theism, equalism and such a gaining some ground though. |
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Spooks_McBones said: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God-Buildingvonrox said: well i see more and more atheists or agnostics proclaimed, they can unite their ideals and will form a religion Atheism can never be a religion. |
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RedTie47 said: Lust said: I don't see that happening.  This is casual discussion here, not twitter |
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| Fastest growing religion is a bit of a deception because it changes depending on how the population is counted. Whether it is percentage population of the world increase, percentage of growth increase, population of members increase from birth count, number of new converts, exclusion or inclusion of de-converts, how the religions are grouped or separated, or any other way to count it. They are called New Religious Movements or NRM for short which means the same thing as cult without the negative connotations. All religions start as cults. International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), AKA the Hare Krishna movement or Hare Krishnas, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava religious organisation that was founded in 1966 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.. It has around 1 million followers. Bahá'í Faith was founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th-century Persia. Has around 7 million adherents. Tenrikyo (天理教), is a monotheistic, Shinto-derived new religion originating from the teachings of a 19th-century Japanese woman named Nakayama Miki, known to her followers as Oyasama. It has 1.75 million followers in Japan, and is estimated to have over 2 million worldwide Neo-Pagan religions including Asatru, Neo-Druidism, and Kemetism among others, have an unknown number of followers but its around at least over 1-3 million. Considering they often are not organized it may be more. The Church of Satan (Satanism) has unpublished numbers of members but it was founded in 1966 by Anton LaVey and still stands so it must be a decent amount to be around still. Rastafari founded by Marcus Garvey in the slums of Jamaica in the 1920s and 30s has around 1 million followers Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormonism) Founded by Joseph Smith, 1830, New York has 12 million followers. Jehovas Witness founded by Charles Taze Russell, 1879, Pittsburgh has around 6 million followers Spiritism started around the 1800s and has around 15 million Falun Gong founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992 in China has 10 million Cao Dai Founded in 1926, Vietnam by Ngo Van Chieu and others based on a séance. 4-6 million https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations http://www.religionfacts.com/compare/religions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_new_religious_movements |
traedJul 5, 2015 11:10 PM
RedTie47 said: Lust said: I don't see that happening. |
traed said: Tenrikyo (天理教), is a monotheistic, Shinto-derived new religion originating from the teachings of a 19th-century Japanese woman named Nakayama Miki, known to her followers as Oyasama. It has 1.75 million followers in Japan, and is estimated to have over 2 million worldwide I've been to a Tenrikyo religious gathering before. I was taking some karate lessons from a Tenrikyo school when I was in Japan, since they offered free lessons for foreigners. They had a group trip thing which combined religious activities, festival stuff and a karate tournament. One unusual thing about Tenrikyo is that they have animated mascots with voice acting and all that, and they typically placed these mascots somewhere in the festival-like activities. Anyway I was a bit surprised when I learned that they were a new religion, usually you associate these newer things with evangelicalism but they never were particularly forceful in spreading their religion to us. |
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| There are already 2 new religions. The Media and the Internet. So yes. |
| yes the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster can be considered a new religion EDIT: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/pastafarians-rejoice-as-church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-is-granted-permission-to-register-as-a-religion-in-poland-9248689.html |
degJul 5, 2015 8:14 PM
| Cults yes, a new dominating religion... hmm not so sure. Most religions began in a time where people didn't yet search for the explanation for things as miracles. Therefore they could mostly lean on only their beliefs. Now that we have science we are eager to explain everything in a logical way and its less likely that we would create some sort believe including supernatural statements. |
Working_Designs said: The ONLY way a new religion can rise, and become excepted by younger, non-religious people, is if it doesn't prevent people from "Being Themselves." I created "Dragonitsu" as a belief system to work in the modern world, with no sins, no dogma, no commandments, and no heaven or hell. Shinto was definitely an inspiration for it. How do I become a member? |
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ixsetf said: traed said: Tenrikyo (天理教), is a monotheistic, Shinto-derived new religion originating from the teachings of a 19th-century Japanese woman named Nakayama Miki, known to her followers as Oyasama. It has 1.75 million followers in Japan, and is estimated to have over 2 million worldwide I've been to a Tenrikyo religious gathering before. I was taking some karate lessons from a Tenrikyo school when I was in Japan, since they offered free lessons for foreigners. They had a group trip thing which combined religious activities, festival stuff and a karate tournament. One unusual thing about Tenrikyo is that they have animated mascots with voice acting and all that, and they typically placed these mascots somewhere in the festival-like activities. Anyway I was a bit surprised when I learned that they were a new religion, usually you associate these newer things with evangelicalism but they never were particularly forceful in spreading their religion to us. I would like to go to some gatherings like that some time of whatever smaller religion just to see what they are like. They are not the only ones who use anime. Happy Science does it too. They have propoganda through anime. 6 films so far http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?q=happy%20science http://www.vice.com/read/my-afternoon-with-a-failed-japanese-cult |
| Depends on what you call a religion. I'd call equality-worship a religion. I think the following depiction of Saturn makes a good 'poster child' (no pun intended) for what Equality represents in the long run: Perhaps we can simply call Saturn 'Equality' and treat it like a false God, and believers in Equality members of that religion. |
| Now you're wondering if there's white text in any of my other posts. Over there, I'm everywhere. I know that. |
RedRoseFring said: New ones can arise, but I don't see any rising to become the top one. Recent ones like humanism, militant anti-theism, equalism and such a gaining some ground though. Those are all too weak to be religions. If anything, shouldn't Christians not want such flimsy ideas to be treated as religions? That's very self-deprecating, like, "well, atheism is a religion too [so it's just as bad]!" As for me, I don't like those ideas except for humanism, but I consider that so vague and obvious an idea that it doesn't even count as a worldview. |
| Lol cults as you people put them are religions. They are being called cults because they are not recognized by the big religions or the state but in the end is just a belief system no different than religion. vodall said: Isn't atheism the up and coming religious trend? Is like saying an empty glass is the new cool drink. |
MonadJul 5, 2015 11:59 PM
Monad said: vodall said: Isn't atheism the up and coming religious trend? Is like saying an empty glass is the new cool drink. Not a bad way of putting it. It is the 'cool new drink', but people will get thirsty and need to find something else. |
| Now you're wondering if there's white text in any of my other posts. Over there, I'm everywhere. I know that. |
icirate said: Monad said: Is like saying an empty glass is the new cool drink. Not a bad way of putting it. It is the 'cool new drink', but people will get thirsty and need to find something else. I think its because Atheism is by definition lack of religion, to make something thats defined as a lack of religion into religion means its not atheism, its a juxtaposition. |
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| New religion called consumerism has been founded. |
Monstrum said: New religion called consumerism has been founded.  |
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Spooks_McBones said: icirate said: Not a bad way of putting it. It is the 'cool new drink', but people will get thirsty and need to find something else. I think its because Atheism is by definition lack of religion, to make something thats defined as a lack of religion into religion means its not atheism, its a juxtaposition. Well, atheism isn't defined as a lack of religion, but a lack of belief in Gods. A belief in a Godless universe can't in and of itself be a religion, because you can be an atheist and still be a follower of one of a whole bunch of Godless religions. I just chose to interpret what Monad wrote from another angle to show it to be an ironically good metaphor. |
| Now you're wondering if there's white text in any of my other posts. Over there, I'm everywhere. I know that. |
| Cults will never succeed in this day and age. |
 All credit goes to Sacred. |
| Math is a religion! 1+1=2, how does it happen?! Why 2? Why does adding stuff increase value?! No one knows, but you need faith and to believe in arithmetic to ease your mind. |
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FireEmblemIke24 said: Cults will never succeed in this day and age. I beg to differ. |
| Just need to find out how to quote this every time so I can dodge the stupid 30-character limit. |
| Well Christianity is somewhat based on Judaism and still it counts as an own religion. Today if something like that would happen we would probably just call it a sect or a variant |
| New age is like a new religion, but it's still just called conception of life |
| Unitology is creepy as hell. Anyways, maybe? You're asking us to basically predict belief. Which is if not impossible, highly difficult. But based on gut instinct I'm gonna say. It is possible. |
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Hoppy said: Eh, just about every religion has had it's fair share of corruption. Although I think Scientology is hilariously dumb, we can't forget that other religions used to do "cult" shit.Most of the new religions are cults which are bad especially Scientology. |
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| If the world undergoes major destruction then I could see religion growing again |
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Thebigofan said: Working_Designs said: The ONLY way a new religion can rise, and become excepted by younger, non-religious people, is if it doesn't prevent people from "Being Themselves." I created "Dragonitsu" as a belief system to work in the modern world, with no sins, no dogma, no commandments, and no heaven or hell. Shinto was definitely an inspiration for it. How do I become a member? You simply declare that you are, that's it. Dragonitsu revolves around the worship of 11 Major Dragons that maintain the elements of the world. Perhaps I should start a club explaining everything about this some time. |
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| I hope not |
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| With the advent of science it is very hard to do so. The only reason religion exists is because the predominant ones were founded in a time when humans lacked the technology and expertise to discover how the world worked and how everything came to be. Relatively new religions have a tendency to be treated as a joke (eg: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Scientology etc). |
LoveLikeBloodJul 6, 2015 7:04 AM
Take care of yourself |
razortongue said: With the advent of science it is very hard to do so. The only reason religion exists is because the predominant ones were founded in a time when humans lacked the technology and expertise to discover how the world worked and how everything came to be. Relatively new religions have a tendency to be treated as a joke (eg: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Scientology etc). The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a joke. A bland one, but still a joke. |
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