Introduction

This blog and the companion website that I am going to set up is intended for the exploration of the idea of an analytical religion based around modern mathematical understanding and the scientific method.

The primary purposes of religion, as I see it, are to provide a community where people can discuss philosophical ideas; to make ethics accessible to ordinary people; to provide good feeling from a sense of purpose and encourage a more altruistic outlook; and to emphasise the value of truth over dogma, traditionalism, magical thinking, and cognitive bias.

From a theological point of view, the religion has its roots in the Abrahamic tradition of non-idolatrous monotheism, where the one and only existing God is transcendent, invisible, omniscient, omnipotent and the creator and maintainer of all material reality. Philosophically, I come under the banner of "objective idealism". But no doctrine is beyond question. If any principle of religion turns out to cause more harm than good, commit it to the flames, for it is neither use nor ornament. As Jesus said, one judges a tree by its fruit.