Religion without Faith

Ford Vox, founder of ‘Universist movement’, attempts to address the shortcomings in the world’s current religions by promulgating a whole new canon which paradoxically claims that no one can be bound by a set of rules - otherwise termed as ‘Faith’ by Vox. This religion finds its inception in a context where it dismisses the ‘Faith’ entrenched in all other archaic religions.

Almost every religion today is old, older than most of us could even imagine. Every such religion professes its own beliefs to which it believes its followers will adhere. The same beliefs have been propagated through generations and today the religious have a concept of Truth which they abide by. Per contra Universism believes that there is nothing like an objective truth.

“The idea is that there is no external truth, that there is no objective truth that we should all strive to adhere to. There is rather an ongoing, continuous search for truth.” quotes Vox. Only three years old, the new religion has attracted as much as 10000 members, a salmagundi of various sorts of people.

Lindsey Tillery, a devout follower of this new religion, wonders whether it is appropriate to believe what should be done in order to get closer to someone called God from people who neither have an inkling of what he’s like or nor have known these things directly from him. Not many universists differ from Lindsey has to offer, and all refuse to believe in the age old traditional conceptions of a hell or a heaven.

While many outsiders still opine that Universism is only nihilism or college given a different name, it is yet to be seen whether this religion is only a fad or will stand firm on the cornerstone of its selling point.

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