Old Order Transtheist Anabaptist Quakers

A Tract about our True Religion

By: Mike Wine

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

True Religion
Many have claimed the mantle of the only true religion. Sociologists have documented more than 5,000 gods extant over the past 12,000 years of human history. Before that, we enjoyed 40,000 years of animistic fun: ubiquitous spirits in creatures, plants, rocks and water. And elsewhere.

Our homo sapiens’ impulse to embrace the supernatural can be overwhelming. Without any epistemological justification, we love our deities. All of the flavors and varied personalities of these myriad beings that we have known over millennia are quite astounding.

And the religions that develop around these gods can be amazingly byzantine in such intriguing ways.

But for a religion to be true, it must actually accord with reality. As Jesus notes in The Book of Jesus: a True Metaphorical Account of her Life and Teaching, the word religion is associated with the linguistic sense of re-ligament, or re-connection, with one another. Religion, in this sense, can be a beautiful thing as we experience a fact-based, yet mystical feeling, of oneness with all sentient life.

More and more homo sapiens are enjoying a transtheistic celebration of life in this way. We embrace scientific, naturalistic, reality…sensing all-embracing love.

One subset of this growing transtheist religious practice consists of those of us who are also old-order anabaptist-quaker in our outlook and feel that we are part of a ubiquitous Society.

A Special Note about God, god and GOD
To help the reader of this little tract quickly understand the semantic range of this word as employed here, we use the following capitalization conventions:

1. If the reference is to the anthropomorphic being of monotheism (omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent), then we use “God.”
2. If the reference is to other supernatural entities, then we use “god.”
3. If the reference is to a completely natural experience of the interconnectedness of life, or the awe one might feel in nature, or any other mystical sense (natural) of life, then we use “GOD.” This usage is our understanding of the divine: a non-supernatural, deeply felt sense of life and nature. On a personal level, this awareness consists of both an intellectual and an emotional sense of life’s unity.

For other positions on the semantic range of the Theos Circle (see below), e.g. Pantheism, we do not use a special form of the word g-o-d in this tract.