GodWrites:
People are always craving to believe in something bigger than them, and if you must control and exercise power, you must learn to create a cult-like fellowship. Trust me, this is very easy but requires persistence and TIME.

Talking about time, you will never be alive to see your new-found religion become a tool of mass delusion. Hundreds of years after your death, people will fight and kill themselves for something you created.

If you are serious about creating your own religion, don't do this alone. Here is a simple way you can lay the foundation of a new religion.

1. CREATE AN ATTENTION

First, attract attention. This you should do not through actions, which are too clear and readable, but through words, which are hazy and deceptive. Your initial speeches, conversations, and interviews must include:

* The promise of something great and transformative.
* The other a total vagueness.

2. COPY FROM OTHER RELIGION

* Find a way both elevating and comforting.
*Create rituals for your followers.
*Organize them into a hierarchy, ranking them in grades of sanctity, and giving them names and titles that resound with religious overtones
*Ask them for sacrifices that will fill your coffers and increase your power.
*To emphasize your gathering's religious nature, talk and act like a prophet:

Christianity, for example, is the corrupt version of Paganism. Islam took from Christianity and so on. So, never be afraid to copy.

3. SET UP AN US-VERSE THEM DYNAMIC

Your religion is now large and thriving, a magnet attracting more and more particles. To keep your followers united, you must now do what all religions and belief systems have done: Create an us-versus-them dynamic.

· Make sure your followers believe they are part of an exclusive club, unified by a bond of common goals.· Manufacture the notion of a devious enemy out to ruin you.

There is a force of nonbelievers that will do anything to stop you.· If you have no enemies, invent one. Given a straw man to react against, your followers will tighten and cohere.

You must invent a devil, or your religion will be one without a foundation.

4. FEAR AND REWARD

Like every religion, they are created using the carrot and stick technique. Using extreme fear and reward to keep followers caged like a sheep. This is the main ingredient and if it is missing, your religion will never last.

Many world religions used a place of eternal suffering as it's a tool of fear, using the message of love as a decor; and heaven as a reward. You can use either fear or reward. Perhaps both! None should be missing.

5. BE PREPARED FOR THE UNBELIEVERS

Those who won't believe in your religion will definitely exist. Your job is not to convince them, but to build a mechanism in check. Which will ensure that these unbelievers don't take your sheep astray with their logic


"Only a fool says there is no God"

"At the last day, many false prophets shall rise"

A recent example of creating this quasi-religion cult-like fellowship is the case of MMM. The system was designed in a way that followers saw the government and the bank as enemies, with an aim to destroy the financial system and change the world.

The extreme fake reward of robbing Peter to pay Paul served as motivation. But like all pyramid schemes, there is always a peak.

Guess what, religion has no peak. Unless perhaps logic sets in. Even in that, the power of what you have created should be able to keep followers away from logic. They should be able to suspend their intelligence when dealing with this system which you have created.

When followers start indoctrinating their children, be rest assured that this religion might never fall again. It won't be easy for an indoctrinated child to kick against the religion he or she was brought up in. Certainly, he will key into the delusion.

Don't worry about writing a holy book. Passionate and smart followers will claim to receive from a divine source and pen down their delusion. They are smart entrepreneurs and politicians who have seen an opportunity to exploit using your system. They could do this for money or power. But be ready to keep pieces here and there for their use.

Go ahead and create a religion. You can be God, just like I. #winks

blackpanthar:
GOD DIDNT CREATE RELIGION.... MEN DID.


And all your methods are lame.


THOSE DOING ALL YOU HAVE LISTED AND MORE are everywhere as PASTORS.....

but many human beings will worship a person that can do SUPERNATURALLY EXTRAORDINARY THINGS WITH EASE.... thats the key... THESE DAYS... FEELING GOOD IS NOT ENOUGH... if you do not have power related verified results... go and sit down else you get insults

CosmicPhoenix:

god did not create man,man created god.

[s][/s]

blackpanthar:
when you die E GO SHOCK YOU.

Meti99:
Bros, will you please start a religion with this your crap?
I'll follow you when you have 1,000 followers

rekinomtla:
You should asked otem for some advice here, he made up his religion right here on nairaland. He literally claims to know a dead egyptian god named atum, apparently they're friends as of now

blackpanthar:
when you die E GO SHOCK YOU.

GodWrites:

He is doing amazingly already. He has lots of followers here on NL. Give him a few hundred years and you will be amazed. Sadly, you won't be alive then.

rekinomtla:


Nah, I think his religion will die with him and remain as insignificant as it is now.

rekinomtla:


Nah, I think his religion will die with him and remain as insignificant as it is now.

LordReed:

I won't be surprised to learn that someone said this about Ron Hubbard and scientology.

GodWrites:


They said the same to Christianity

rekinomtla:


And they were completely wrong.

rekinomtla:
You should asked otem for some advice here, he made up his religion right here on nairaland. He literally claims to know a dead egyptian god named atum, apparently they're friends as of now

GodWrites:
People are always craving to believe in something bigger than them, and if you must control and exercise power, you must learn to create a cult-like fellowship. Trust me, this is very easy but requires persistence and TIME.

Talking about time, you will never be alive to see your new-found religion become a tool of mass delusion. Hundreds of years after your death, people will fight and kill themselves for something you created.

If you are serious about creating your own religion, don't do this alone. Here is a simple way you can lay the foundation of a new religion.

1. CREATE AN ATTENTION

First, attract attention. This you should do not through actions, which are too clear and readable, but through words, which are hazy and deceptive. Your initial speeches, conversations, and interviews must include:

* The promise of something great and transformative.
* The other a total vagueness.

2. COPY FROM OTHER RELIGION

* Find a way both elevating and comforting.
*Create rituals for your followers.
*Organize them into a hierarchy, ranking them in grades of sanctity, and giving them names and titles that resound with religious overtones
*Ask them for sacrifices that will fill your coffers and increase your power.
*To emphasize your gathering's religious nature, talk and act like a prophet:

Christianity, for example, is the corrupt version of Paganism. Islam took from Christianity and so on. So, never be afraid to copy.

3. SET UP AN US-VERSE THEM DYNAMIC

Your religion is now large and thriving, a magnet attracting more and more particles. To keep your followers united, you must now do what all religions and belief systems have done: Create an us-versus-them dynamic.

· Make sure your followers believe they are part of an exclusive club, unified by a bond of common goals.· Manufacture the notion of a devious enemy out to ruin you.

There is a force of nonbelievers that will do anything to stop you.· If you have no enemies, invent one. Given a straw man to react against, your followers will tighten and cohere.

You must invent a devil, or your religion will be one without a foundation.

4. FEAR AND REWARD

Like every religion, they are created using the carrot and stick technique. Using extreme fear and reward to keep followers caged like a sheep. This is the main ingredient and if it is missing, your religion will never last.

Many world religions used a place of eternal suffering as it's a tool of fear, using the message of love as a decor; and heaven as a reward. You can use either fear or reward. Perhaps both! None should be missing.

5. BE PREPARED FOR THE UNBELIEVERS

Those who won't believe in your religion will definitely exist. Your job is not to convince them, but to build a mechanism in check. Which will ensure that these unbelievers don't take your sheep astray with their logic


"Only a fool says there is no God"

"At the last day, many false prophets shall rise"

A recent example of creating this quasi-religion cult-like fellowship is the case of MMM. The system was designed in a way that followers saw the government and the bank as enemies, with an aim to destroy the financial system and change the world.

The extreme fake reward of robbing Peter to pay Paul served as motivation. But like all pyramid schemes, there is always a peak.

Guess what, religion has no peak. Unless perhaps logic sets in. Even in that, the power of what you have created should be able to keep followers away from logic. They should be able to suspend their intelligence when dealing with this system which you have created.

When followers start indoctrinating their children, be rest assured that this religion might never fall again. It won't be easy for an indoctrinated child to kick against the religion he or she was brought up in. Certainly, he will key into the delusion.

Don't worry about writing a holy book. Passionate and smart followers will claim to receive from a divine source and pen down their delusion. They are smart entrepreneurs and politicians who have seen an opportunity to exploit using your system. They could do this for money or power. But be ready to keep pieces here and there for their use.

Go ahead and create a religion. You can be God, just like I. #winks