Hi, I was reading about some interesting things on Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God-Building
More specific:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Reason
The Cult of Reason states that:
"There is one thing that one must not tire telling people," Momoro explained, "Liberty, reason, truth are only abstract beings. They are not gods, for properly speaking, they are part of ourselves."
And
"one God only, Le Peuple."
I think such a religion has revolutionary potential. If we perceive ourself as kind of gods (none-metaphysical of course) and worship the potential of mankind and of all humans to create a better world can this be a force for real change? I could imagine that this is a kind of generalisation of human rights and morality/ethics. Since we would worship the potential of every human being then obviously every human should have a life where he/she is in full power to realise this potential. Maybe this is even more important than revolutionary workers or similar classical things.
I believe the idea of being
I believe the idea of being godly was held by Sartre and some other philosophers... I think it is very interesting, but if it has Nietzschean implications, it really will undermine any revolutionary potential, there is some serious potential in these ideas but they have to be treated sensitively.
the whole point of god is
the whole point of god is that its metaphysical. i'm all with you in the sense that (communist effort) its all about extending the possibilities of all mankind and every man and woman. but you are coming from the weirdest angle possible - religion is all about enduring the shit life, not changing it.