Quite a turn off indeed. How narrowminded to only

allow Christians to participate; How discriminative.

How naive and how far from enlightenment.

More and more a desire in me grows to start a new religious movement.

Not because I am such a fan of religion, but because I am a fanatic persuer

of human rights & freedom. I can understand why you would somewhat play a

religious game, but this really puts me off.

It's the same reason why I'll never completely feel at home in the Santo Daime community,

even if I had an amazing Ayahuasca experience with them; To join them requires the acceptation

of a rigid, scriptural doctrine & that always rubs me the wrong way. I prefer freedom to form

my own little, more flexible doctrine & I think everyone deserves the freedom to their own

doctrines.

However to form a Religion & be legally recognised as such a group of people will have to document

some of their shared ideals & beliefs. Temple of the True Inner light folks appear to be stuck on

the bible & even only the christian interpretation of it. I think it's fine to extract bits & pieces

of wisdom from old doctrines like the bible, but to copy it whole & live a slave to a disempowering,

freewill-oppressing control system. Wisdom in holy scriptures is rare, but Ignorance & madness are

alot more common in "holy scriptures"

I would prefer to join or found a "Religion" with much more sober principles.

Something like this perhaps:

Our Religious(read"Common") Principles/Beliefs:

That sounds like the kind of Religion I would found.