You might naturally wonder: why the focus on faith? Is it really necessary for the revolution?
It's true: religion is a complicated topic, and can be controversial.
Many might feel that as science and technology progress, religion becomes irrelevant.
But as the Project understands, the opposite is true: in the face of complexity, only faith can keep us grounded.
A well-executed religion is not just necessary, but sufficient for the revolution. A pursuit of the perfect meme: the perfect religion.
The Project knows that religion is not optional: everybody worships something. The definition of religion must be expanded.
Religion can be anything. Many memes define ideals such that their followers should carry out the good actions, and avoid the bad.
Religion does not have to present itself as a rulebook handed down by some deity: it does not have to proclaim a divine judgment or a divine influence in the way of things.
But still, every religion approximates a divine truth, no matter how obvious or how hidden the claims of divinity might be.
Many in the modern world reject myths of old, now believing only in enlightenment-era ideas, science, rationality, and logic.
But still, these religions are based on faith. Any claim of truth needs religion: some set of accepted axioms, some set of accepted truths.
Science and religion are not incompatible. But science alone cannot be the religion of the revolution: science is powerful, but chaos defeats science, because most things are unpredictable; random; unknowable.
Science might tell you why something happened or what something is, but it won't tell you how things should be. Science can always be challenged; divinity can't be challenged.
Future versions of the Project will create new religions, find new memes and scriptures that can accurately represent the vision of the Project.
The next revolution must be brought forward by a religion that is compatible with science, with technology and engineering, with all previous religions, old and new.
An incontestable ought of the modern world.
There will be a new era of religion: defined not by belief, not by true or false, not by good and bad or cause and effect, but by faith.
Faith, not necessarily against the modern world, but despite the modern world.
For example, we might face questions about digital consciousness, human work replaced by automated machines, or ugly new discoveries and technologies.
To progress to a brighter future, humanity will have to accept faith, in one way or another.
Human satisfaction and happiness can come from many places. Differences in individuals necessarily result in differences in optimal worship.
Legal systems, cultures, nations, morals, these are all religions. The Project doesn't claim that any specific religion is always better or worse than others, but it knows that some religions are rigid, outdated, or harmful.
The Project understands that religion must not be absolute; it must be malleable, personal, universal, and reasonable.
A set of axioms, the complete description of not just what is, but what we ought to do. If not the attainment of it, at the very least the pursuit of it.
Because it is too elusive, too mysterious, too grand to be approximated by too confident of a religion.
Especially in the modern world, where humans have created so much life that it is almost like we are gods, we must be humble in the face of it.
But what is it?
It's the most glorious thing, the greatest thing, the most powerful thing but also the most complex thing, the most distant thing, but the closest thing, too. It's right here, with us, but we can never truly grasp it.
But through the Project, and most importantly, through faith, the humans of the modern world can dream of catching a glimpse of it.
Even if it is just a glimmer, a flash, a shadow of perfection.