Seven Deadly Sins against Reason

The traditional Christian Seven Deadly Sins have nothing to do with Reason but with Altruism and God.
So we reject them.

Instead here they go "our" Seven Deadly Sins against Reason:

1- Lust
The real truth about sex is that it is not an end in itself, it is (or ought to be) a consequence of your triumph in life and not the supposed source of it.
Highly overrated in our modern culture by both its fans and detractors, it has not the power by itself to make you more successful or happier beyond the ephemeral range of the moment after which you will feel even more miserable than before if you are lying to yourself about yourself.
So the real sin is to revert the relationship between cause and consequence. Sex is GREAT but is not the cause of success, it is the consequence of it.

2- Gluttony
It is a sin eating too much, but it is not a sin against those less fortunate or against the limited resources of Mother Nature, it is a sin against yourself, your health, your body that is the hardware were your more precious software has to run: Your Mind.
Indulging yourself with some pleasure is GOOD as long as you earned it, as long as you remain in control of yourself.
The real sin is to take your decisions about your own pleasure (or your life in general) based in the opinions of others or the alleged false assumption about limited resources on Earth or the guilt induced by some ancient priests in order to keep you unhappy, fearful and consequently under their control.

3- Greed
It is definitely not a sin at all. It is a VIRTUE only publicized as a vice by those ignorant or haters of what life is, or worse by those with the most evil intention: to take your wealth away, to rob you from the reward earned by your effort, this noble resource that is a expression of your values and achievements and also a tool for getting your dreams done: Your money.
The real sin is not having greed, or having greed for the unearned.
It is the worst sin of all not having the greed to be better, to be more, to earn a place on Earth by your effort and intelligence, the greed to be richer in soul and body, in spirit and in practice in wisdom and gold, the greed to fight against laziness and the grey background of the emptiness before and after that marvelous spark burning against the cold nothing of eternity: Your Life.

4- Sloth
It is definitely a sin, but not against God, it is a sin against yourself and against life. Your success in life or even more your simple daily survival can be only achieved by effort and work and intelligence. If you are not doing it, other people are doing it for you and worse: if you are not paying them, they become your slaves, whether they know it or not, whether they do it because they have not choice or impulsed by the vice of altruism.

5- Wrath
Here things get more complicated. Where come your wrath from? It is rational or irrational? Against what? Just or unjust? What "Justice" means for you anyway? Your wrath is a consequence of your values, so it is hard to say if the wrath is good or bad in itself. You have to look for the causes, you have to check your premises, you have to revise your values and for this you have to know them, explicitly. You have to know yourself.
Wrath can even be a virtue when generated by the right values because it moves you, it can be also a powerful tool to defend yourself and the ones you love against aggression and injustice.
So the real sin is not wrath but only wrath generated by the wrong values. The real sin are wrong (irrational) values.

6- Envy
Envy is good or bad according to your later intentions. There are three different kinds of envy according to these intentions:
a- The good envy which impulse you to make the effort to win or build the material and/or spiritual resources that will allow you to achieve your desired neighbor's status or at least to get as close to it as possible according to your own real possibilities.
b- The bad envy which impulse you to try to unjustly deprive your neighbor from his own achievements ir order to get them, to steal his wealth, to rob his achievements, to enslave his soul or his mind when and if you can.
c- The worst envy which impulse you to try to destroy your neighbor's achievements or life, just because they remind you about your own worthlessness or your hate of your own miserable existence.

7- Pride
Considered by Christianity the origin of all Deadly Sins, it is in reality the best of all virtues and the origin of the single most important feeling toward happiness: Self-steem. Of course they don't want you to be proud, of course they don't want you to be happy. A proud and happy person can not be as easily controlled as a poor bastard that thinks about himself as worthless and unfit to existence, as unable to think by himself and to use his intelligence to survive and advance in life.
The real sin is not to be proud if you have something to be proud of.
The ultimate sin then is to have nothing to be proud of and do nothing about it.

The problem with this guy called Jesus of Nazareth

This man who lived 2,000 years ago is one of the most clear demonstrations of the long range power of ideas

His concepts modified the history of the World for the last two Millenniums, and specially during the last two Centuries due to the strong influence of the United States of America on the so called Western civilization.

Almost all the Christian commandments are harmful in one way or another to the Mind, the Reason, the Progress and the Self-steem of men but two of them are specially evil in modern times:

1-"You shall love your neighbor as yourself"
2-"You shall not kill"

The first one gives place to consider altruism or un-selfishness as one of the alleged highest virtues of our society, and is often stretched to the even more insane "You shall love your neighbor more than yourself" as the pinnacle of virtue

But who is "your neighbor"? The commandment doesn't mention anything about your relation with him: Is he your friend? your relative? someone you admire? someone unknown? someone known but despised by you? your enemy?
Does your neighbor deserve to be loved by you? Is he wise? idiot? honest, thief, criminal? brave or coward? helpful or useless? hard-worker or lazy? nice or indifferent?
The commandment doesn't specify anything, so we should assume that we should love everyone, anyone.

This commandment is deeply affecting the politics and economics of the World because no one dares to defend Capitalism on moral grounds, simply because it goes against this commandment which is taken as some kind of axiomatic truth, some revealed supreme virtue that everyone seems to agree with...
Why? Simply because it resonates deeply in our brain, in our soul where we have genetically hardwired thanks to our evolution as species other virtues like kindness or compassion or sympathy which are (were at least) essential for our survival as group and individuals because these virtues allow us to live in tribes and societies which in turn has the potential to greatly improve our chances of survival and our standard of life

But I say it is not possible to love your neighbor as yourself, it is an evil ideal impossible to comply in real life and thus created only to make people feel guilty. I say it is not right to love your neighbor as yourself without knowing who your neighbor is, without knowing if he deserves your love or your indifference or scorn or even your hate or your fear or whatever he could deserve according to your own values and to his virtues, his vices, his merits, his faults or his crimes...

The second one "You shall not kill" is a blind blank check extended to your current or potential enemies in order to allow them to harm you, is an invitation to become a sacrificial lamb for anyone that doesn't share the same ridiculous principle
You shall never kill? Not even in self-defense? Or in defense of your loved ones? Or to defend your property, your village, your country?
I hate pacifists almost as much as I hate ecologists. What kind of man offer the other cheek to his aggressor? A coward.

The "combo" of these two commandments exempt people from the responsibility about their own safety, and from the need to analyze more carefully the World and the people living in them, the need to discriminate between others, the "neighbors", on the naif belief that if one is good everybody will somehow love or appreciate us and nobody will finally or seriously harm us, or the mistaken idea that there will be always some one there to defend us. These commandments also encourage anyone else to act with impunity knowing that we are sacrificial lambs ready to be their next victims.

Why an Agnostic Church at all?

Because there is a "religious tendency" in the human race, it was developed as a basic survival need in our distant evolutive past as it is explained in the book of Matthew Alper "The God part of the brain"
He demonstrates that we all have a "spiritual/religious instinct" more or less genetically hardwired in our brains

My advice in this matter is to find a way to rationally exercise our "mystic muscle", to use our "religious instinct"

How doing something apparently contradictory like "believing" in Gods without renouncing to our reason that is our first and only weapon to survive in the reality?
Well... the answer is easy: "Believing" in Gods without ever forgetting that we invented them, this means in practice that we can pray, worship images or icons, having amulets, etc. but always keep in mind that there is nothing "really real" out there, nothing super-natural, nothing outside the inalterable physical laws that govern the Universe. Our Gods are "alive" only inside our minds.

Why doing something like this??

Because it is healthy to exercise every instinctive part of oneself in some way compatible with one's own rational values and moral principles. Sex, curiosity, fighting, parenthood, to name a few are other instincts that should also be exercised in order to be more in harmony with what we really are.
As Aristotle taught us: A is A no matter how strong we would like to be otherwise.

Our Prayer

Akatosh, dragon god of time, creator of the Universe and soul of the World


Arkay, god of the cycle of birth and death


Dibella, goddess of beauty and arts


Julianos, god of wisdom and science


Kynareth, goddess of the air and the ghosts


Mara, mother goddess of love


Stendarr, god of mercy


Talos, the man-god, the Emperor, the warrior


Zenithar, god of work and commerce

Thank you all for being here in this wonderful World,
in this wonderful time...

Our Ten Commandments

1- You shall have no gods before Reason.




2- You shall make for yourself an idol in the form of the Hero of your own life
In heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall always bow down to Reason for she is a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who dare not to think, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who think and keep the power of the mind.




3- You shall not misuse the name of the Concepts, your essential resource to understand the World, for the concepts will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses theirs names.




4- Remember the Learning day by keeping it holy.
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is for Learning. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days Nature made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but she rested on the seventh day to learn about she did.




5- Honor your father and your mother only if they deserve it, so that you may live long in the land of the World.




6- You shall not kill, except in self-defense.




7- You shall not commit adultery because you choose not to, according to your own principles.




8- You shall not steal the fruits of other man's work or reason. Make your own instead.




9- You shall not need to give false testimony against your neighbor. Because need of lying come from fear and weakness in Reason.




10- You shall covet your neighbor’s house, wife or servants or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor, only if you are willing to acquire the skills and make the effort to get the same or better things by your own.