Congratulations,
iDeath! You've just independently derived
existentialism.
I've come to the same conclusion you have about not proselytizing
atheism. Just because I'm
lucky enough to walk around freely without a
crutch, doesn't mean that I'll be doing other people a
favour by kicking their crutches out from under them.
In fact, I've come a full circle, and now (waaaay on the backburner, unfortunately) I'm trying to distill what it is that people today really need and expect from a religion. What if a religion that gives them precisely these things could be synthesized-- from the traditional
holy books as well as from more recent ideas about
ethics,
cosmology,
psychology,
sociology? What if, instead of relying on a
blind,
fanatical obedience (needed to preserve the
integrity of
information in an age before
digital media,
printing, and in some cases even
written language) it was completely open to debate,
interpretation,
ammendment (and
filtering of what ammendments you do and do not choose to see)? Religions may not all be the same, but I'm hoping that human nature has enough similar
features accross
cultures (and is converging even more with every advance in
transport and
communication) for this to work.
See also:
If you could start a new religion, what would it be?
Here's what I hope to do with the Everything code or with something like it.