That’s it! I’m reading the Riot Act! I would have read it before, but we didn’t have a riot act, so I had to write one.
For the last three days in a row, reporters here at Shalampax Speaks have been writing about and linking to the Church of Infinitiaty. There was even a link to the church’s doctrine on Created Evolution.
These were plugs, plain and simple. There is no excuse for it. Clearly, vested interests were being served. This is completely unacceptable in the news and editorial pages of any respectable journal, whether online or print.
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I am sublimely blissful in a totally spiritual sort of way.
Why? A number of people thought that Religco was being overly optimistic in its forecasts for the success of the re-launch of the Infinitiaty faith. However, it turns out that Religco grossly underestimated its profits from the religion.
It’s been less than two days since Religco announced the re-launch of the Church of Infinitiaty, the faith with an infinity of Gods, but the company’s revenue from the religion is already well ahead of where it was expected to be three months from now. Some religion-business analysts are saying Infinitiaty is going to be the biggest thing to hit the religion business since Jesus. (Although they try to avoid saying that in front of Christians because Christians are very protective of the Jesus brand.)
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Many venerable religions have customs and practices that, to outsiders, seem to be outdated, inane, barbaric or, sometimes, all three simultaneously. Paahlmism, the native religion of Shalampax, is no exception.
Consider, for example, our stricture against mixing corn and beans in a single meal. This law is as old as the Paahlmist faith itself. Nobody remembers why this commandment was instituted in the religion, but it remains a strict law of the faith nonetheless.
Many people find this rule against mixing beans and corn to be absurd, but what has some folks particularly up in arms is what, in their eyes, is the exceptionally archaic and barbaric nature of the punishment for committing this sin. The punishment is stoning.
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Something recently popped into my head. I think that a great many people believe that they believe in a deity, but that belief is not truly inherent in the core of their existence. It is not an inextricable filament within the fibers of their being.
If I’m right, these people “believe” in their deity, in my case Paahlm, because that is what they were brought up to believe and that is the faith that others in their milieu exhibit. However, unbeknownst to them, their faith is not truly at one with their psyche. In other words, it manifests itself seemingly as a part of them, but it is not an internalized, immutable constituent of their being.
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There is nothing more uplifting than the soul of a being of flesh and blood that rises up high above its corporeal body to experience life on a far loftier plane.
There is nothing more beautiful than two souls who have merged in a bond of everlasting, unconditional, true love to form a single whole that is far more sublime than the sum of its previously separate parts could ever be.
There is nothing more glorious than the melding of the collective spirits of a people of mutual faith who unite in a fellowship of humanity unified through a pure energy that exudes peace and love.
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