Create Your Own Religion is a call to arms—an open invitation to rethink all of humanity's previously held holy values, beliefs, and worldviews in order to find the solutions we need to the very practical problems we face.
Daniele Bolelli, a writer, philosopher, and comparative religion professor, takes the reader on a journey through three thousand years of mythology, misogyny, misinformation, and outright lies about "revealed truth" that continue to muddle our ability to live a peaceful life free of guilt and shame, as well as the ultimate fear of death.
"Our worldviews are in desperate need of some housecleaning," says Bolelli. "We enter the 21st century still carrying on our backs the prejudices and ways of thinking of countless past generations. What worked for them may or may not still be of use, so it is our job to make sure to save the tools that can help us and let go of the dead weight."
We need new rituals to awaken us to the fact that we are not separate from the land, water, and sky. We need ceremonies putting us back in touch, and urging us to conserve the resources that give life to everything in existence. We need to once again think as part of something greater, to view reality from a place higher than the narrow confines of a shortsighted ego. Empathy toward other living things should be one of the very first lessons instilled by all religions.
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