Jim Meyer
Professor Everett
World Religion
2012-11-03
The Religion of Jimeiricians
Religion is the unconditional foundation of ethics to one that holds that ethics is founded on humanistic traditions acceptable by appeals to reason. Moral values are about the relationship between revelation and reason. Religion is grounded in some measure on the idea that Jimeiricians discloses perceptions about life and its true meaning. These insights are composed and codified in the Bible, the Torah, the Koran, etc. and presented as “revelation.”
Religions take a stab at giving answers to critical questions: Where did the world come from? What is the meaning of human, vegetable and animal life? Why do people die and what happens afterwards? Why is there wickedness? How should people conduct themselves? Clifford Geertz’s definition of religion states that religion has two major functions. The first function was defined as a comprehensive system of symbolic meanings for understanding the nature of reality. The other function is said to be a system of values that enforce complete devotion. Definitions of religion have almost always had a propensity to suffer from one of two problems: they are either too constricted and rule out many systems of belief, or they are too blurred and confusing, suggesting that everything is a religion. Perhaps a better way to view religions is the basic characteristic they all share. These characteristics may be shared with other beliefs, and together they make a distinctive religion. The truth in all religions aids us in appreciation that it is not just that one religion that matters, but that you follow the good that is in all. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy lists qualities of religions arguing that the supplementary markers present in a belief structure, the more religious like it will be. Now, this is the revealing of an aspiring religion, “The Religion of Jimeiricians.”
Listed below are some qualities in the religion of Jimeiricians.
Belief in supernatural beings (gods).
Sacred and sacrilegious acts and feelings including a sense of awe and wonder.
Ritual acts.
A moral code believed to be authorized by the supernatural beings.
Religious feeling of mystery, adulation and adoration
Prayer.
A worldview over the individual.
A communal group bound as one by the above.
This is where the emergence of a new set of religious values and beliefs comes forth. Now, this is how it all transpired. (I might mention that I, Jim Meyer, am the founder. I am still looking for followers.) I received a celestial revelation on the night of December 12th 2012. I was home alone listening to some classical music and suddenly aloud noise went off in my head. “JimBob you are my elect, carry forth with the declaration and proclamation that I will hand down to you and from this time forth go into the world proclaiming, ‘Your God, JimBob’ and the JimBobians will proliferate more and more.” JimBob the guy, Christopher Paolini, Brisingr really had insight, “Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.”
Perhaps all Jews, Christians, and Muslims want and intend to worship me, Jimeirc. I have decided on at least 15 Laws for sure and add more as I think about it in the “Unchallengeable Tablet of the Devine Law.”
Here are the first of the “Unchallengeable Tablet of the Devine Law of Jimeiricians”:
1. Do not bump off, assassinate or torture any living thing.
2. Do not be a sham.
3. Do not commit sexual deviations with man or beast, living or dead.
4. Do not get smashed or inebriated.
5. Do not sin by cursing or thinking about cursing this thought crime is intolerable.
6. Parents respect your children.
7. Teach your children all you can about math, the
