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  • A friend of my daughter is into the Darth Vader religion I think.
  • Hinduism. Shinto. Traditional Chinese religion/ancestor worship. Much of Buddhism in so far as it departs from the Pali Canon. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, on the other hand, are based on special revelation and personal experience. Whether or not you or others believe that they are does not alter the fact that Moses and the prophets, the Apostles and Evangelists, and Mohammed clearly did not see themselves as writing myths (though a few OT writers made deliberate use of the false myths of their pagan neighbors to make a point) but were convinced that what they were writing (or in the case of Mohammed, reciting) was either: 1) from God Himself, communicated directly to them, often with the accompanying command to write it down, or... 2) historical fact, usually about events to which they themselves took part in. (Qualification: the authors of some of the Writings (Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Esther, and Song of Solomon) probably just thought they were writing devotional literature - it was the Jews themselves who recognized the voice of God within them.) As such, these are not myths or traditions: they are either deliberate frauds, the shizoid rantings of deluded men, the result of demonic (or Loki-like) deceptions perpetrated first against the authors, or the truth.
  • None, to my knowledge.
  • Scientology.
  • All our thoughts and beliefs mutate and evolve alongside our forms; and as such, there is nothing new. Thoughts themselves are mostly the product of their past and current variables. Even things like the flying spaghetti monster follow in the ancient traditions of parody and farce. Everything 'new' is a mutation and evolution of the old.

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