I actually got it from Sargon.
I've stopped trying to label what I am, I'm relatively assured I have followers and so provided they breed I'm relatively assured I've increased the chances of a technocratic future.
I just want humans to rapidly evolve and select for intelligence. Our manifest destiny is to seed the planets, which (one of few of my prophecies) will be found to be dead and lifeless despite having all the right conditions.
Because the alternative is that atheism continues to grow, or that Islam becomes law, or worse, that the frivolous, materialistic nature of common people revert to polytheism in a desperate attempt to revive ritual in their life.
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Granted, but Catholicism had admittedly become a little weak. They've given up debating atheists, which should be the duty of all Gnostic believers.
There's a reason you believe? Good, use that reason to persuade others. A powerful God is a believable God, one that's difficult to argue against, without testing your idea of God you have no means of gauging your belief.
The religion of the future is a religion of debate and dialectics. You must have the tools for debate, which are logic and reason.
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In a time when atheism is fashionable, you can't prove that anymore than I can prove pre enlightenment scientists were theists in a time they'd be arrested for atheism.
Mistakes were made, now people should be free to believe what they believe to be right, whether atheism or theism, provided they have the rationality behind it.
Because otherwise you're just an idiot that ends things with "I don't believe that."