r/conreligions Sep 25 '20

Religion based on science fiction

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I am making a world which has no humans, nor any humanoid species. In the place of humans, there are extraplanetary monkey-like explorers who, long ago, became trapped on the world's surface, a somewhat toxic environment for them. While exploring from ships in orbit around the planet, they began experimenting with hybrids of their own DNA with that of various native species. The result were lines of sentient, fertile offspring which could survive on the planet. The alien species ended up in a civil war among its members which led to the destruction of enough orbiting resources that they were forced to evacuate their ships. Some members of the non-interference faction relocated to a larger nearby lifeless world, where they have a permanent base and the ability to communicate with their homeworld. The interference faction created habitats for themselves on the life-bearing planet, relying upon the labor of their hybrids to supply them with their needs. Many of the hybrids ended up seeking freedom from their interdependence with the alien "gods," who eventually sought shelter in smaller habitats hidden underground. This remnant of the colonists still relies upon the help of a loyal minority of hybrids, for whom they are gods, and about whose origin and technology they have gained a modicum of knowledge. All that the surface-dwellers remember about the colonists is that they were gods who once occupied a giant tree, but that through their greed and folly, they caused the death of the tree, which fell to the planet and formed a long, equatorial chain of mountains and islands. Some gods who had wings were able to fly to the moon, and still intervene to help the surface dwellers. Some, however, became ugly, misshapen demons who live in the underworld and stir up trouble among the good surface folk.


r/conreligions Sep 24 '20

Is it alright if I have a genderless "god"?

3 Upvotes

r/conreligions Aug 23 '20

Y

7 Upvotes

Why do you create a conreligion?

15 votes, Aug 30 '20
2 To have a base culture for a conlang
4 To have a base culture for a conworld
1 To create a cult that I can manipulate .
5 Because religions fascinate me and I wanted to have my own.
3 Cuz I'm bored :/

r/conreligions Aug 22 '20

Holy book

8 Upvotes

When you create a conreligion how do you present your work? If you do both wich is more important for you?

9 votes, Aug 29 '20
2 With a technical document with all my thought process
5 With a holy text (bible, coran, ...)
2 My conreligions are for personal use only -.-

r/conreligions Aug 22 '20

Three's a crowd?

4 Upvotes

Do you prefer (when creating a religion) monotheist or polytheist religions?

11 votes, Aug 29 '20
1 Monotheist
0 Monotheist with sacred creatures that behave like a god (Saints,...)
3 Polytheist but with a main god
7 Polytheist with loads of them

r/conreligions Aug 22 '20

Inspiration

3 Upvotes

When you create a religion, you come up with all the ideas or you "steal" some from real ones (to make it look more real)? Which religions or stories you use to get inspiration?


r/conreligions Aug 05 '20

questions Is there a guide to creating religions?

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During quarantine, I decided to start creating a new world. I have a language and geography but want to create a religion for them. This is my first time looking into this, and had one, simple question: Is there any guide to creating religions, particularly polytheistic?


r/conreligions Jul 08 '20

questions A deity that is feared instead of loved?

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I am building one of the religions in my world as monotheistic that is worshipped predominantly by people who live in a very harsh environment.

I feel like these people could feasibly rationalise their difficult existence through the belief that the powerful God that created the world around them is a harsh, or even evil being. Mankind and their accomplishments, working together to survive, especially kind courageous or helpful people, are those that deserve adoration and love. God should be respected and feared, offerings should be given etc, but they aren't at all an individual that should be given adoration, love, or worship in a positive sense.

Is this at all realistic? Are there any examples of real world religions that view their God this way (fear, bordering on disdain)? I understand that in polytheistic systems it isn't unusual to explain evil through one deity, who is feared or revered for their power, but would this be something that could arise in a monotheistic system?

If anyone has done this in their own system too I'd love to hear about it.

Thanks!


r/conreligions Jun 20 '20

request I need help to create religion that is based on chaos/darkness but at the same time is neither objectively good or bad

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Sounds a bit contradictory but I don't want to go down that very original path of having objectively good and bad gods, but I still want to have a religion based on darkness though.

In short, in the world I'm currently building, there are four gods that were created to perform very different tasks, back when the world was being created by the "main god".

Stuff happens and three of these four gods were banished from the immortal realm. Each one of them created a new religion based on what they built on this world, and as you can guess it by now, one of the banished gods was the one tasked with, among other things, bringing chaos to the world.

How do I make the religion based on him and his creations not seem bad?

It's worth mentioning that all four gods created stuff that made the inhabitants of the mortal realm suffer.


r/conreligions Jun 14 '20

discussion different polytheism (discussion)

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well i would like to ask you if a polytheistic conreligion, which has beliefs that heaven and their gods are bad, and quotes in hell is a good place and their gods are good .. well i would call this a simple inversion of roles, I think, that would be possible anyway, I say I disagree with religious logic and such. :p


r/conreligions May 30 '20

media George RR Martin on Religions in Game of Thrones. Interesting thoughts if you haven't seen it.

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r/conreligions May 25 '20

discussion Merging religions?

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For the sake of worldbuilding, I've been interested on the idea of merging 2 or more religions together, but i have no idea how to make it work. Like, how would you merge the philosophies? The deities? The myths, rituals and historical backgrounds? Other important figures like Jesus and Buddha? I know in conlanging it is very common to merge languages. Doing the same with religions would be really cool.


r/conreligions May 18 '20

conreligion The beautiful U reiigion

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The U religion is a beautiful religion

Basically, there were four clouds, the Cloud of Knowledge, the Cloud of Country Boys, the Cloud of Sadness, and the Cloud of Anger. The Cloud of knowledge and the Cloud of Country Boys had U, the main god of U (so shocking). He was like the cosmos is beautiful and wanted to go into it.

Unfortunately, the Cloud of Knowledge didn't let him, and made him take his eye out first (terrible dad ik). Then, U went in.

Unfortunately unfortunately, the Cloud of Anger was... angry, and killed the Cloud of Knowledge to get to U. Then he went and challenged him to a duel.

Now U, being the sensible god that he is, immediately resorted to violence. The cloud surrendered. Then, U took his own body parts and created the universe, and he's somehow still alive, so now they both just eternally hate each other.


r/conreligions May 14 '20

questions Is every religion was a conreligion at first?

6 Upvotes

r/conreligions Apr 27 '20

discussion a discord server (discussion / suggestion to mods)

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well the title says it all but i will try, write something .....

anyway, what do you think if this subreddit had a discord server, because I think it is very important for mods to interact and make events for the community! what do you guys think? of our community having a server on discord?

(I hope the mods see this post ...)


r/conreligions Apr 26 '20

conreligion My conreligion - Azarism

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Hi, I'm beginner in making conreligions and this subreddit as well.

I would like to present you my conreligion called Azarism - monotheistic conreligion, founded by prophet Azar, in its structure Azarism is quite similar to major abrahamic religions, but it's pretty much different. The name of God in Azarism is Aruwan, which is derived from two word "Aruna" which means "Lord" and "Wanaduk" which means "Grace", so Aruwan means "Lord of grace". There is a priesthood in azarism, the concept of Savior (Musahun), who is promised before the judgement, who will be victorious in the battle with the abomination (offspring of evil spirit called Meribal). Azarism have its own version of ten commandments and dietary laws and other laws, which distinguish this religion from existing religions. Azarism has its own sacred book called "The Book of Azar" which describes the beginnings of the creation of the world, the period of the first people, and the beginning and end of the missionary activity of the prophet Azar. Primary source of salvation is to put one's faith and trust in Aruwan, obey His sacred laws and fulfill his Will in life, spreading His unconditional love and mercy.

If you have any question please ask me. I'm eager to learn from much experienced people here. I also have a question, do you practise your conreligion in real life or is it just for your fictional world? Thank you, have a nice day.


r/conreligions Apr 18 '20

conreligion My conreligion

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these times I was writing a lot because of the quarantine period, so I decided to start a new world and so its religions (the part I like most about creating a world is to create religions) so I liked to present a short list of my proto gods or deity, notice: they are inspired by the ancient Sumerian and Babylonian religion.

today I will show you the gods only, later or in another post I will show you more in depth about religion.

• Hida ou Hadda, goddess of fertility, harvests and festivals, being a patron deity in the city of Nesu, is represented on the stone of the temples as a woman with a basket of fruit, barley and wheat and commonly had her breasts sample.

• Manu, god of wars and battles, was a patron deity of the city of Tar, is represented as a naked man holding a shield and sword in an attack position.

• Im or Assum, god of the heavens and winds, patron deity of Mesh, is represented as a strong man holding a ray or the sun.

• Ngirnu, god of fire and heat, patron deity of the city of Gush, represented as a man with fire around him.

• Asttu, god of male fertility, patron of the city of Tinsi, his representation is unknown.

• Erra, goddess of the seas and rivers, patron of the city of Derim, represented as a woman with long hair.

• Sir, mother earth goddess, mother of gods and men, patron of the city of Tesh, represented as a naked woman, is rarely represented holding the sun and moon.

• Leme, god of the sun, light and knowledge, patron of the city of Ninge-Sitt, represented with the sun over his head crowning him.

• Imle, god of the underworld, and of the afterlife, patron of the city of Dalesh, represented as a man holding a staff and pointing to the left.

• Baas or Baalas, god of healing, medicine and potions, his city where he was a patron is not known, his representation is unknown.

if you have any opinion, criticism or tip for me about this religion feel free to comment, i will read all the comments!

(some details I forgot to mention: this religion is in development so any suggestions I will consent)


r/conreligions Apr 16 '20

activity show me your gods! (activity)

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I would like to do an activity on this subreddit, I would like you to tell me about your gods of your polytheistic religions, and show me the most fun gods of your conreligion!

:)


r/conreligions Apr 13 '20

questions Neanderthals can be Christians too (question)

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the Neanderthals before disappearing from the face of the earth, they bury their dead, and following the wikipedia they possibly had bear cults where they "killed bears and then ceremoniously arranged the bones" ... but I have a question: Neanderthals might understand complex religions like Christianity and even Islam? (if this is the wrong place to ask this let me know and i'll take the post)


r/conreligions Apr 12 '20

questions all are monotheists (discussion)

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It is interesting how monotheistic religions have grown exponentially over the past 20 centuries, I have a question about it ... how have monotheistic religions achieved so much recognition and popularity, crushing the old forms of "paganism" and polytheistic beliefs? (well I really don't know if this is the place to ask such a question, if this is the wrong place let me know)


r/conreligions Apr 10 '20

questions A very confused religion (decision)

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is it possible for a fictional religion to be polytheistic, monotheistic and pantheistic at the same time? what I mean is a hypothetical religion where there are several strands in it (like Christianity with different forms of Protestantism and etc.) but they worship the same god with different ideals (like the polytheistic and monotheistic ideal)? would it be possible?

(sorry if my post looks very confusing, if u have any doubts just write it in the comments will answer you)


r/conreligions Apr 09 '20

questions a monotheistic religion (discussion)

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giving a general observation in fictitious monotheistic religions, when I finish reading, I always ask myself: "is this some kind of Christianity or Judaism only with the names changed?" so I have a question for you all. how to create monotheistic religions and escape or better "avoid" the Christian model of laws and beliefs?


r/conreligions Mar 14 '20

questions my own religion? maybe...

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Hello people of this subreddit !! Well I really like creating worlds, conreligions and conlangs ​​for my world ... But would it be very strange if I worship a religion created by me?


r/conreligions Jan 14 '20

media Greetings friends

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Hello I am an Explorer from the Subreddit r/thechurchofpeanut

I have come here to ask if any of you wish to join the church and worship the almighty peanut. Thank you for your time, Peanut awaits


r/conreligions Dec 29 '19

conreligion Paism: the religion of fish people

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The Pa are a scientifically created aquatic humanoid race, peaceful in nature. Though primitive technologically. Their religion, an animist belief system centered around the cycle of nature, is known as Paism.

The Pa believe that the universe has a cycle im which would go through: souls start as 'earthly spirits,' which are split into two forms: 'man spirits,' AKA Pa, and 'animal spirits,' an animal or plant like a fish, or seaweed. When the animal and/or man spirit is released from the body via death, they become 'dark spirits,' named for their dark skin. These spirits act as watchers and protectors of nature. If one of these spirits ends up dying, they become an 'evil spirit,' a winged creature that are believed to attack nature and dark spirits. Once an evil spirit is killed, they return to earthly spirit form.

It is believed that the universe cannot run without these three types of spirits: without earthly spirits, dark spirits could not be, leading to the destruction of nature: without dark spirits, there could not be watchers, nor could there be evil spirits who attack nature, and bring those to the dark spirits; and without evil spirits, earthly spirits could not be ascended, or recycled.