If I were to write and speak my mind today, perhaps I would be misunderstood and criticized by those who defend their convictions - the best way to pass on the OMNIreligion theory is to make an AFD (Article of Future Days) - in this way, free from bias, it makes it easier to pass my ideas on - here's a story that might as well have been written on October 27, 2066.
"Inaugurated today, October 27th, 2066 the headquarters of the Pro-Good Omnireligion centre, (acronym for Polly Religious Organization - Good is the Only One Destiny) near the town of San Luis, Argentina (located exactly at the coordinates 33°s 66°w, according to specific numerological indications).
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"Inaugurated today, October 27th, 2066 the headquarters of the Pro-Good Omnireligion centre, (acronym for Polly Religious Organization - Good is the Only One Destiny) near the town of San Luis, Argentina (located exactly at the coordinates 33°s 66°w, according to specific numerological indications).
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As its name says
Pro-Good is multi religious nucleus committed to celebrating the harmony among
world religions. Today the world is united by its religions in this astonishing
complex of buildings, but they have long been the triggers for wars and
misunderstanding. Since the murder of Hypatia, director of the library complex
of Alexandria by religious priests, deaths occurred between Christians and
Muslims in Jerusalem routes, disagreements between Jews and Palestinians in the
Middle East, and even terrorism separatists, that by an absence of a state,
commit crimes in the name of their religion, decided to bring an end to the
barbarity in order to live the rest of their lives in peace.
The Pro-Good was first
suggested by a group of omnireligious children in primary class at The Montessori School of
New York, in the year 2036.
During a lecture to
students of religious affairs a group wrote on a poster "Why do religions,
that should lead man to divine wisdom has caused many deaths in bloody wars over
the course of the history of our civilization?". Unresponsive, the speaker
started to cry when a boy from the same group of students suggested the
creation of a global organism regulator for the religions, in order to prevent
its integrants to commit atrocities in the name of God.
Unlike adults,
children are free of bias. That generation of children of 2036 grew and conceived
the religious complex of Pro-Good, which opened today in the beautiful fields of
Argentina.
Exactly eighty years
ago on October 27th 1986, Pope John Paul II held a meeting of prayer, fasting
and pilgrimage with religious leaders from various regions of the world in the
city of S. Francis of Assisi, Italy.
The Cardinal Roger
Etchegaray, is moved when recalling the historic day:
“In the face of
Basilica of S. Francisco - continues the then President of the Justice and
Peace, organizer of the event - which, in the cold, each one of us were looking
to lean against the neighbor (John Paul II was next to the Dalai Lama), when
some Jews jumped over the stage in order to offer olive branches to Muslims, I
also found myself wiping my tears”.
The emotion that was
already big reached its peak when by the ending of that gray morning; a rainbow
appeared over the city of Assisi. Religious leaders glimpsed a strong call to
fraternal life: no one could doubt that the prayer had caused a visible sign on
skies of harmony between God and men”.
This possible article
of a newspaper from the future describes what should inevitably happen in the
globalized world. It is impossible not to be 'Poly Religious ' here in Brazil –
where at the same day, you may go to the Catholic mass with your mother, at a ‘terreiro’
of Umbanda with a friend, to a bar mitzvah of your nephew, watch a Buddhist
event and even go to pick up the kid at a Mormon party.
Article 18 of universal
declaration of human rights says; ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of
thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his
religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and
in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice,
worship and observance’.
How should function
the Pro-Good
Differently from what
happens with temples of other religions, Pro-Good complex is run by an atheist
CEO (religious tolerance also implies in the tolerance to the lack of religious
beliefs).
The atheist leader is
a perfect choice since it is religiously neutral and aims to manage the
accounts of the organization with maximum transparency, based on market economy
model.
The philanthropic
activities achieve a stunningly big number of donors and have branches
worldwide.
Another major step
towards fairness of religious activities is the training of applied
psychiatrists, psychologists, medical professionals from several other areas,
and exempted energy therapists, who work in every religion in order to provide
proper treatment to the adherents who have been led to religion by various
levels of health imbalances. Religions should be worshiped in a healthy way,
with the purpose of understanding the spiritual paths and should not, in any
way, exploit its adherents.
Only the adherents,
who have their mental/spiritual health duly attested by these professionals,
are able to make financial donations.
In the main building of
the complex there is a huge file with databases, books and documents of all
religions in the world for free consultation.
Four large altars are
always crowded with worshipers who listen and interact with religious leaders
who alternate the agora (the stage of each altar).
There are also the ‘conciliators’
that has the sole purpose of avoiding heated debates based on the basic
principles of Pro-Good - harmony, tolerance and brotherhood.
Every adherent is
encouraged to take the best from presented messes/presentation of different
religions through 'faith by contesting' and create their own 'religious
persona' with individual prayers and personal reflections. Are also encouraged
to respect the belief of the next in order to have their beliefs respected.
The headquarters near
São Luiz area also run subsidiaries around the world as well as the proper
offices of social works.
The idea is not to
amalgamate all religions into a global cluster of beliefs and exterminate regionalism
and its socio-cultural bonds. Rather, the Pro-good encourages the rescue of the
cults in their original languages, with a view to preserving and propagating the
culture of the people.
Another very
interesting area is that of religious archeology, ancient rites such as those
worshiped in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia were meticulously studied and
worshiped in their original language and proper way.
The benefits of
Pro-Good to humanity are numerous, and I have no doubt that an institution like
this should to be declared by UNESCO as human heritage as soon as it is established.
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