Here is a challenge. How about we each take 5 books and make a new sacred canon from them. Can be a new religious idea, with new deities or it can be to sit alongside an existing set. I'll do mine later as I have just thought of the idea and about to go into a meeting.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Thank you no. There’s too much religion in the world as it is.
Gatovicolo
Level 8
June 12, 2018
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Nothing like someone that can not let religion go.
GipsyOfNewSpain
Level 9
June 12, 2018
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Meh, I think it's more tongue-in-cheek than anything.
Reworded it's just another post asking for your 5 most influential books.
'least, that's how I read it...
5 random dr.Suess books. There is much wisdom to be had.
RavenGreer
Level 5
June 12, 2018
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My five texts for a canon
Infidels (album) - Bob Dylan Highlighting the dangers of indoctrination
The Trueman Show (film) - The implications of external control
Awaken The Giant Within - Anthony Robbins - Discovering yourself
The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing - Rumi - tr Coleman Barks
The Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capra - The world of quantum physics and beyond
Geoffrey51
Level 8
June 12, 2018
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Fight Club, American Psycho, Ender's Game, Safety Not Guaranteed, & Equilibrium (laslt 2 were films not books)
mattersauce
Level 7
June 12, 2018
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There are many parody religions. Slack is my personal favorite.
mordant
Level 8
June 12, 2018
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The wonderful Church of the Subgenius. Marvellous stuff
Stopped reading at "sacred".
Ellatynemouth
Level 8
June 12, 2018
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Try to consider an agnostic canon. That would be interesting
I would suggest books over several volumes as one selection, unless of course one volume stands out as pertinent in the set
Geoffrey51
Level 8
June 12, 2018
1
OK,
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny to explain the nature of the gods, Christ and Buddha, also elementals, demons and all.
Then hitch Hikers Guide to teh Galaxy to establish who is making all the decisions now.
Maybe not a book, but the episode of SG1 with Hathor, my kind of Goddess
Would have to then add Life of Brian and last Holy Grail.
Rugglesby
Level 8
June 12, 2018
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Brilliant collection. Thanks. I'd subscribe to your cult
Tolkien - The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Return of the King, The Two Towers, The Silmarillion . Most everyone here must have had some connections to Tolkien, if only to the movies. Sacred Canon ? I'll just worship Middle Earth ! Must be somewhere below my feet.
Doug13
Level 4
June 12, 2018
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The owner's manual of a 1953 Russian pumpkin harvester, the Voynich manuscript, the Cincinatti's waste water treatment regulations, the medical history of Hildegrad von Bingen, Rudolf Diesel's Solidarismus, Karel Capek's Rossum's Universal Robots
PontifexMarximus
Level 8
June 12, 2018
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