Zanism is “act-ually” a religion formed in the early ‘90’s as an attempt to escape the tyranny of sanity without falling into the prison of insanity. We reject the sanity/insanity dichotomy and embrace “zanity” in its stead. Zanism is not a religion of beliefs. We believe in disbelief.
Zanism is influenced by some (not all) of the sayings of Buddha, Loa-Tzu,
Jesus Christ, Niels Bohr, Warner Heisenberg, and Bokonon among others. To understand zanism, we examine why religion exists at all. Then, we capture that impulse--and squash it. You may think
this is a joke, but we're as serious as Yorick’s skull.
After your conversion to zanism
you're welcome to free yourself of it again and again unto infinity. In deference to Lao-Tzu, we like to think of Zanism as “the path that makes no sense.”
While zanism has no beliefs, it does have several tentative tenets.
1. On Belief: If you believe in zanism, you aren't a zanist.
2. On Earth: Treat the Earth as if you depend upon it.
3. On Salvation: Salvation isn't
guaranteed.
4. On God: If there's a god, you're here to amuse her. And—she’s amused.
5. On Violence: We acknowledge that non-violence takes astonishing guts.
6. On Love:
Just do it.
7. On
Individuality: Dance dust dance!!
8. On Nonsense: Sense makes no sense and no sense makes sense.
9. On Hamlet: It’s a play on words.
10. On Hope: Refer to love.