Backgammon, Pascal, Sklanskyanity

[Zeno]

Sklanskyanity would not suffice as a religion to the vast majority (or would only appeal to a slim minority) of people on the planet and for some very practical reasons.

To wit:

1. There is no sacred book or text (or one has not been put forth yet anyway).
And you need one with some long history behind it to give it the proper aura and clout.

2. It lacks sufficient appeal to supernatural authority and has no earthy hierarchal structure.

3. There is a complete lack of ritual, worship, special days and/or years and other important celebrations.

4. No appeal to revelation is to be found.

5. The paucity of argumentum ad ignorantiam is conspicuous.

6. Blood sacrifices are not mentioned

5. Creeds are not yet established to be ritually mouthed incessantly in holy temples, all lead by those that know the intricacies of the espoused doctrine.

7. Logic and reason appear to dictate the one base creed, or to put it another way – it requires that you think, at least somewhat, for yourself.

8. A war, or at least some torture and killing, has yet to be fought over Sklanskyanity.

I invite others to add to the above at their leisure.

-Zeno, Infidel.