These are the tenets of the Prophet Jospur as presented in the Sermon on the Ruin:
"Listen not to the Heresy of Fear, for those who speak this heresy are liars and rogues who attempt to use your fear to line their own pockets. They would have you believe that the gods are our enemies - that the gods wish to rule us, to control us, and are nothing more than more powerful beings than us. They would tell you that we must fear the gods and defend ourselves from their wrath by appeasing them with praise and sacrifice. I tell you, this is not so.
"We do not deify what we can see. We do not deify what we can experience. We deify the Inexplicable, and so the gods are Inexplicable. The gods cannot be understood, or else they would not be gods. Does this mean the gods do not exist? Certainly I make no such claim. One can see the effects of the wind, but not its substance.
"But verily I say to thee, the gods are not good and evil. There can be no universal good or evil. For, upon what would we base our standards?
The gods do not demand sacrifice. It is as useless to make sacrifice to the gods as it is to dance for the hurricane. The hurricane does not notice; neither do the gods. We are as ants looking up at the descending shadow, wondering whether we are to be trampled on by a man or by a dog. Like the ants, we will never know.
"The gods do not demand praise or proper actions. The only code you must follow is your own; and nobility means acting in accordance with that code, and ignobility means breaking that code, vacillating upon your own word. Our fate after death has nothing to do with our actions during life. Only the soul persists, and the soul has nothing to do with action, emotion, or thought. The soul is, and only that. What about Hell? Hell lies not to the east, or to the west, not to the north, nor to the south. Hell lies not above, nor below. Hell exists and is attainable simply by reaching forth one's hand. Hell is not what we fear when we die; it is what we fear when we are alive. Hell is not what the gods to to us; it is what we do to each other."
Those who subscribe to Jospur's views are considered heretics by most established religions; and consider most established religions to be propagating heresy.
