Non-Theistic Religions

There are a few non-theistic or semi-theistic religions to consider as well. Obviously we could have included Buddhism here as a non-theistic religion as easily as above, since the Buddha was at the very least a heretic protestant relative to the Hinduism of his day and explicitly warned his followers to pretty much ignore the Gods, as they too (if they existed) were bound to the same wheel of petty desires and actions and suffering and had to follow the same path to be liberated from that suffering.

For the purposes of this work, we will consider non-theisms as being:

• Sufficiently well defined and organized as to be referenced by a name or generic descriptor.
• Associated with a worldview axiom that answers the question of probable or plausible existence of God(s) existence positively (axiomatically asserts the existence of one God or many Gods). Note well: By this standard, atheism is not a religion, it is the absence of a religion²⁶, and it will not be considered below. Obviously if (one thinks it most plausible or probable that) God does not exist, a conditional theorem predicated upon Its existence is meaningless.
• A set of beliefs that at least some significant numbers of humans (still) adhere to, with more or less commonality. This means that we will ignore e.g. the Greek, Roman, Norse, Egyptian pantheons, all sorts of ``local'' mythologies (even where they are still held to be at least some individuals).
• A set of beliefs that are not specified in any holy writings or scripture that lay out a specific doctrine that was revealed to specific favored individuals by God or the Gods. Obviously this is a fine line, but it doesn't really matter if I get some wrong or you disagree whether they should be here or above.
• Simply because there are so many, I will ignore all or most syncretic religions and all real polytheisms. No cargo cults, no voudouin, sorry. IMO they are so obviously false that one doesn't really need to say much about them anyway, but in any event polytheisms are in instant contradiction with the theorem and syncretic religions usually have roots in one of the religions mentioned above, and you can judge their compliance with the theorem as easily as I can at this point.

This set of criteria still leaves us a few non-theistic religious belief systems to think about. Some are connected to e.g. oral mythologies or have at this point writings of one sort or another, but as far as I know those writings are not authoritative and do not claim to be divinely inspired truth - they are offered as personal vision or collective myth or axiomatic assertion without the self-righteous, arrogant, and absurd claims of e.g. the Abrahamic theisms.