# [Meditations on The Ideal Faith – A Religion That Isn't a Religion](https://twitter.com/LegitDefinitely/status/1229621473536380928)

Inspired by [@ThadKaczynski's](https://twitter.com/ThadKaczynski) very short thread on the matter.

The ideal  faith would be one that does away with dogma, rote religious ritualism, imposed fetishism, submissions, worship (both of gods and men), and arbitrary hierarchy. That is, a religion that isn't really a religion by the way we have come to define it.

Dogma is stagnation of the mind and of the spirit. Instead let there be something like dharma, a natural cosmic law. Something felt, not taught. Something innate that is absorbed with a mother's milk. As it changes, so do you change with it.

So what then would the tenets of such a faith be? Ultimately this would change with dharma. Let not yours sons be burdened with the dharma of your fathers, let them instead seek and take up their dharma, just as you should seek yours.

Reject dogmatic tenets. Embrace teachings/observations/truths which are then applied to daily life. The idea is for this to be dynamic, because the moment it locks itself down, it stagnates and that in turn stagnates the people.

The same can be said of religious ritualism. It is simply a way of reinforcing adherence and submission. Let rituals not be uniform, let them vary from place to place and people to people, unshackled by an unyielding and unchanging aesthetic. Spirit of the rite, not execution.

Combine the cultural and the spiritual, for they are closer than you may realize. Your festivals and rites should not be purely religious, or purely secular, let it be a healthy balance of the two. Through culture channel spirituality, through spirituality channel culture.

Let not religion merely be a conduit for the propagation of its own aesthetic, let it be a conduit for the spirit of your people. Let religious aesthetic not exist, let it instead be cultural aesthetic, which is in turn a projection of the spiritual. Dynamic and changing.

Let there be no temples, for every man should be his own. Let there be gathering places where men can be social and learn. Worship not the stones, but rather relish in their purpose. If you designate a place as spiritual, you rob its surroundings of spirit.

Replace places of worship with places of contemplation, or meditation, or prayer – they are all one and the same rite. Do these not because you are told to, nor because you are expected to, do these when they are needed, because ultimately their purpose is yours.

What of places that are special? Accept them for what they are, but do not make more of them than you should. Consider the Shinto concept of Jinja in this, something akin to it would fairly acknowledge a place without letting it become an idol. Honour, don't worship.

Reject the worship of idols, it is a waste of your time and thoughts. Reject the worship of gods/spirits, acknowledge them. Reject the worship of men, consider instead the value of their words. Consider the  abstractions and concepts conveyed by all of the above.

Teachers are to be measured by the intuition and sense of those who listen to their words, and it is the heart of their words that is then applied, not the words themselves. In the end they are men with good ideas and wisdom, not messiahs or gods. (unless it is their dharma ;) )

A lot of words to simply say : Embrace the spirituality of your daily life, for daily life is spiritual in its nature, both in the big things and the small ones. Separating spirituality from daily life leads to spiritual atrophy. All things are bound and connected.