Well, I just taught myself how to do this, just to make this silly little thing.
Oh well, tis the season!
So is this similar to the faux-founder religion in Bioshock Infinite?Columbianism is a new religious movement founded by the Reverend Jim Jones in the late 1970s in San Francisco, California. Jones, then the preacher of the People's Temple and a well known figure in California politics (he was said to be a close spiritual advisor to Democratic Governor Ronald Reagan) started Columbianism after having received a vision from the archangel Columbia. Columbianism is a uniquely American religion. The Columbianist god is The Great Architect, who created the Universe and set its laws into motion but has little oversight or control over it. The archangels and angels instead oversee it, and the American way of life, governance and culture is seen as the ideal culture in a Columbianist universe. It is often describe as being either as "esoteric religious Freemasonry" or as "the vanguard organization for an American fascist movement" depending on how generous one is, and it is a karmic religion based around a constant cycle of death and rebirth that can only be broken through leading a just, virtuous life. Columbianism has become one of the largest religious movements in modern America, accounting for more than 20% of the population, though numbers are more concentrated in the Outer System (more than 35%) than in the Inner System (less than 15%), while there are Internationalist Columbianists in INTO countries such as China, Mexico and Nigeria.
So is this similar to the faux-founder religion in Bioshock Infinite?
With a bit more Deism
Incorporating foreign concepts? How very American
Incorporating foreign concepts? How very American
Plausibility Check: American Orthodox Church as a Junior Patriarchate, replacing the Russian O.C. after the Soviets go full on extermination on them?
Why not? I think the American Orthodox Church could do well with a Patriarchate with increased immigration from Russia and Eastern Europe.
They were founded in the 70s and already have eighteen denominations and their own Apocrypha?
I imagine the A.O.C would be fiercely more anti-Communist, and more influential, with a lot of displaced Orthodox Christians in America. I also wonder how they've gel with the Catholics in the Americas, and especially the Liberation Theology ones in Latin America?
They were founded in the 70s and already have eighteen denominations and their own Apocrypha?
Archangel Michael said:It's the 2130s.
Since it would probably be a U.S.-only organization (maybe Canada), I don't think they'd have to worry much about Liberation Theology.
At the risk of soundinh foolish, where do I go to find out more?