{"id":420,"date":"2018-01-29T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=420"},"modified":"2018-01-29T18:57:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T18:57:29","slug":"how-to-start-my-own-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/01\/29\/how-to-start-my-own-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"How to start my own religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-407\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw012918-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-407\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw012918-5-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"How to start my own religion?\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to start my own religion?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All you have to do is believe you&#8217;ve found The Truth. Oh, do you want other people to follow it? In that case, you have to believe utterly in the truth, have sufficient charisma that a few stalwarts begin to support you, and your message, values, and practices have to appeal to enough people that you gain a significant number of followers. If you want your religion to last beyond your own lifetime, that&#8217;s when it gets really tricky: you&#8217;ll need some sacred texts and\/or objects, ritual language and practices, and an inner core of trusted believers to carry the torch beyond your demise. For more info, read <em>Max Weber On Charisma &amp; Institution Building<\/em> (O&#8217;Neill Library HM131 .W38).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All you have to do is believe you&#8217;ve found The Truth. Oh, do you want other people to follow it? In that case, you have to believe utterly in the truth, have sufficient charisma that a few stalwarts begin to support you, and your message, values, and practices have to appeal to enough people that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/01\/29\/how-to-start-my-own-religion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to start my own religion?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","category-life-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}