The ISM.co website offers quick-n-eezy ordination in any or all of nearly 50 unusual Ministries, encompassing everything from Saganism (based upon the scientific worldview espoused by Carl Sagan) to Festivism (celebrating the nontheistic “Festivus for the rest of us” famously introduced via an episode of Seinfeld). According to the site:
For centuries, religions have operated as vehicles which deliver a set of precepts and values, neatly packaged with a cool logo and each with a power structure to organize and protect them. The world has changed a lot since most of the world religions were birthed 2000 or so years ago — today there are a lot more ways of looking at things than there used to be. The problem is that people still need a framework of making sense of the world, and while all these new viewpoints provide more options, they also make it harder to know what to choose. With all this new knowledge comes a lot more confusion.
ISM tries to help solve this problem by providing models for meaning, or “heuristics” for happiness. By framing the world through the lens of something you love, we believe that you can better engage with and understand it. If, for instance, you love to travel, then seeing the planet as a vehicle for travelers transforms it from a lonely rock in space to a world where it’s your sacred duty to travel, perhaps to help bring humanity together. If you love to paint, then seeing the world as a fount of inspiration for creative imagery can suddenly imbue it with divine provenance. Thus, what you do is what you are, and consequently what you become is part of a much greater whole.