david koresh.
that hale-bopp guy and gal.
fucking joseph smith.
i could do that shit.
in fact, in high school, my buddy phil and i -- both wandering, indecisive, closet atheists -- decided we'd make a bunch of money if we started our own religion. we had a whole plan in the works... but then we chickened out for a foot in the real world.
but we coulda done it.
we coulda kicked some religious ass.
Just set up the rules to say that the proof it is true is that people will think you are crazy, that anyone who doesn't fall for it doesn't buy in only because he is deluded by the "evil opposite", and that your deity can do/say anything he wants and it is OK because he is the deity. You know, just like Christianity.
ReplyDeletethen all that's left is we get incorporated and don't pay taxes. boom.
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