One World Religion

[farla]

Have been reading the Left Behind books and running headlong into problems. Basically, the UN says, "Hey, you know what would be cool? A global religion." And everyone else says, "Cool!" Then the UN says, "Even better, let's ban all other religions!" and everyone goes "OMG that's even better!!!" Obviously I can just say that's how it goes, but I'm trying to limit the crazy to clearly defined plot devices (miracle miracle-gro).

I asked my parents. They were not helpful.

First I asked Mom.

Mom: The what what?
Me: One world religion.
Mom: The what?
Me: Where there's some global religion. How do Catholics think that happens?
Mom: We are a global religion.
Me: I mean like an oppressive one.
Mom: You can't out-oppress Catholicism.
Me: But how do they think it might happen?
Mom: We really don't care.
Me: But if there was one, what would it take for Catholics to get worried about it?
Mom: Maybe if they started shooting people? Or banning Virgin Mary statues.

Then I asked Dad.

Dad: Well, as we all know the UN has always wanted to remove religious differences to stop all the strife associated with various religions and so once they get power their first move...

Comments

[purplekitte.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it's not so much that it's oppressive in its views, I think, but that's it's wrong and evil because the evil people are doing it and it's not Christ. It's "pantheistic universalism" according to the Wikipedia page. Also, they have a Pontifex Maximus and who but the Catholics can claim anything like that? "Enigma Babylon One World Faith" is just random, though.

[farla.livejournal.com]

They have a giant mecha death statue that runs on burning bibles.

[wintersheir]

Everything in the Left Behind books pretty much can only occur if every character is a soulless automaton, utterly devoid of anything resembling humanity.

Have you been to LB friday on the Slacktivist?

[farla.livejournal.com]

That's what gave me the idea.

I'm trying to make a story where the basic plotline remains intact but people react realistically. So miracle grow - it's impossible, and everyone reacts to it with confusion, but it's also somehow real despite all reason and people have to deal with it. Easy. But doing so when it's a human decision rather than a matter of God screwing with the natural order of things doesn't work, and the one-world-religion is supposed to be a human decision. So I either need a reason people would do that, or a way of putting the deus ex machina reason in a neat little ball for people to react to.

...stupid atheists not secretly wanting to impose a one world religion on everybody, makes it so hard...