Ancient Myths?

Most religions have ancient myths or stories that relate to their prophets, creation of the universe etc. In the Church of Integrity we claim we got one of the best stories in some sense. Since following the scientific method is central to our world view then our ancient story is that of the universe, from Big Bang until today. We are constantly adding to the story and finding out more about our past. There study of the universe is very important because it answers questions that we all want answers to like how was the world created and studying history, for example mistakes like wars, helps us stay away from those mistakes in the future and do the right thing.

As seen above then science and history are very important to us but does this mean that we ignore the ancient myths of the other religions? Not at all. Cultural in general, whether it is recent novels or sagas of old can tell us a lot about people. Culture can challenge us. Always challenging your view of the universe is important because it helps you double check that you are doing the right thing. Hence we encourage people to get to know other religions, read books and in general absorb as much culture as possible. Note that this does not mean that you must read some classical books, current popular culture like movies, music etc are great too. You consume the culture that fits you, just try to keep an open mind.

Education is the most important thing we can give our children. Teaching them science, history, arts, languages and about religion in general is very important. The religion behind the Church of Integrity is unobtrusive in the sense that what we want to teach our children is what might be considered general knowledge, something that can be in common for children of all religions. Keeping this distinction between religion and education is very important. Giving our children a free choice of what religion to eventually choose is the right thing to do.