The Church of Life, Lust and Laughter!
I think it's fair to say that a great many people have tired of established religions. Too many rules, too many fools and altogether too much bullshit. For all their pomp and ritzy-glitzy razzmatazz the established churches are life demeaning. As recent events have shown, the priests and ministers themselves are incapable of leading the sort of sexually restrictive lives dictated by their religious dogmas.
In Europe people have turned away in droves from the church, (in Australia immigration from Catholic countries salvages an otherwise dire situation) and throughout the industrialised world every church is down in numbers. The only religious institutions doing any good are the breakaway sects and cults which seem to fill a need for some desperate people.For some years now I've been toying with the idea of forming a church for people who enjoy sex, laughter and music – hedonistic people who are sick of all the hellfire, damnation, original sin and redemption claptrap. Life's for living and it's my belief that we only get one bite of the cherry. Missing out on all the pleasures simply because some boring old fart in a ball gown and a silly hat says so seems pretty silly to me.
So why call it a "church"? Why not simply call it a swingers club or a gay/bi/tranny club? Simply because no one has a monopoly on the word "church" and if I want to call it a church I shall do so. There is a serious side to the RWC but it no longer matters whether you take an interest in planetary survival or not. We've probably left it too late now anyway. The Real Wild Church is a church in the broadest sense of the word. We offer friendship, fun, sex, music and laughter... and still more sex! Everyone's welcome, gays, straights, trannies, singles, couples, entire families. Just so long as you're broadminded and you have no objection to outrageous behaviour.
"What's wrong with that?" I hear you say. Well nothing as far as I can tell. As for all the other hocus pocus twaddle that mainstream churches teach, that's up to you. If you want to worship your particular deity in a particular way, no worries. The Real Wild Church is not a cult. We don't care what you believe, just so long as you don't try to infect us.
It is a heinous crime to deliberately infect someone's body with a sexual disease but it's considered OK – laudatory in fact – to infect an innocent mind with the disease of religion. I describe myself as a FreeActionary, a non believer who doesn't know all the answers. I reject mankind's manufactured gods and messiahs but I have no idea whether or not there might be some major intelligent force in the universe. Oddly enough I've yet to meet anyone bright enough to know all the answers but I have met a great many people who think they do. When it comes to the Big Question, Albert Einstein said, "I'm content to leave it a mystery," and that'll do me.
And so the The Real Wild Church is born. Owing to the fact that the atheist Gestapo resents our existence and advises Yahoo to delete our accounts we shall use the Meetup Group as a means of attracting new members. To begin with we shall meet in local pubs, clubs and restaurants but as time goes by we'll work towards acquiring our own venues around the country and internationally. There is a chance that this could grow into something significant and worthwhile. It has all the right ingredients – most people like to belong to something and we're offering belongingness – all we have to do is stir the pot to keep it bubbling along.
SEX and DOLLARS and ROCK 'n' ROLL!
The SERMON on the MANTlepiece
The Real Wild ChurchDon't let the word "Universist" confuse you. I had to place the group in a category and Universist was the only one that didn't clash with our philosophy.
