Laruuni

  LARUUNASH, A NEW RELIGION   Personal Background: This brief introduction is about a religion, and it was written with profound awareness of certain things the value of which will outlive not only individual human beings, but possibly humankind as well.   Still, somebody has to claim responsibility for the likely mistakes herein. As will be reemphasized below, this religion is not based on any revelation, and none of the tenets stated here is claimed to be derived from ‘sacred’/nonhuman sources. Therefore, I feel an obligation to start with some facts about the author. I, Seyn Lapröyen Laruuni, am a moral agent, a political philosopher, a scientist, and an artist –among other things. Especially since my teenage years, religious matters had been central to how I understand and guide myself. My parents, all my relatives, and practically every adult I knew as a child were Muslims –with a wide range of piety. I was given what I now consider to be a pitifully shallow...