If you could create a new religion, what would you include to make it wholesome, interesting and helpful for the world?

Not completely safe there with Buddhism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence
I don't have anything to back this up, but I wonder if there's a strong correlation between a religion being minority in a region and how "peaceful" it is, because my suspicion is that majority/power of any kind will always come at the risk of attracting chuds or corrupting the fearful into protecting themselves by attacking others. Literally "others" I guess.
Pet hypothesis just held up by vibes though so
In order to make it wholesome and helpful I would not create one.
No, it's the satanic temple. Buddhism as practiced in Buddhist countries is the same shit different god, they dgaf, and have not read any scripture.
The western perception of Buddhism versus what Buddhists believe is totally different.
You kill a dog for meat? You drown it so it experiences terror and fights for its life, then you take its strength when you eat it.
It's just like any other religion, you adhere when it suits you, and you probably know nothing about its precepts.

Any particular reason that you think we need more religion?

I think it’s just a thought exercise
I don’t think we need more religion, no. I think people would like options with less archaic ideas, and that they would like the community and activity that religious groups can offer if the strange belief requirements can be left behind.

It would have two tenets:

Be excellent to each other
Party on, dudes

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You just described the Esperanto community 😅
Ah gotta get Festivus on the calendar! I like the rules idea too, maybe a few super random things just to be quirky.

Make my god a well-meaning fuckup.

You got cancer? Shit! Aw, fuck man, that keeps happening, I'm sorry. I keep trying to tune this thing better, but I'll level with you, I never actually set out to be a god, things just got kinda out of hand, and... oh fuck! The stratosphere! Nonononono don't be on fire, look, I gotta take this, we'll talk later, ok?

That sounds like a writing prompt.
- like that the egg story but even after an eternity You still ends up sucking at being a god
- Sure, but y'know it'd be so much easier to cope with the random shit life threw at you if you knew it wasn't a gigantic fuck-you, eg. you're going to die horribly to teach your loved ones an important lesson about faith lol.
There's a fantasy series that has part of this as a plot point. A normal person becomes god with all the godly powers but only for a very short time do they get ALL the power. Its overwhelming in the first few moments and they almost destroy the planet with a mere thought. They realize their mistake a few seconds later, but only have half the power by then, so they put in an ugly workaround, before most of their power runs out. Now that ugly workaround is just "life as we know it" on the planet for the people that live there.
This is a deep spoiler for a popular book series so I don't want to post the series name and I don't think we have a spoiler tag yet.

I’d make it atheistic, include meditation and be proactive with volunteering or useful projects.

i feel like "religion" may not be the word you're looking for, something closer to "system of belief" maybe?

In high school I made up a pretend religion (order of the gecko) with some friends as a joke that had a positive take without the baggage that the religions we were familiar with. The tenets were about actually being accepting and opposing intolerance.

A couple decades later I heard about the Satanic Temple and other than the symboligy it was basically the same!

General tenants about being excellent to eachother, none of that smiting bullshit for people to cherrypick.

Multitheistic with different gods responsible for different aspects of reality with the general commandment of the religion being that the best way to become closer to the gods (or specific god of preference) is to understand their creation and thus understand them (go do science!)

Throw in some enjoyable aspects like funerals being a celebration rather than a sombre occasion; colour code the gods so we don't even up with everything being fucking gray or gilded; And have a neat little offering ceremony for each god thats simple but unique and inexpensive so people can go all starsigny on it, offerings being a good luck thing rather than mandatory.

Buddhism is effectively a "how to" guide to satisfaction , it just goes against everything corporations preach. To be fair, I'm not strong enough to be a Buddhist, but of the religions I've studied, it seems pretty open and shut, "follow these instructions and you will have a good life". Buddhism wins. But it doesn't involve parties and such

I don't think it matters what you include, people are perfectly OK taking parts as they will and leaving others behind when it suits them. Organized religion creates a hierarchy, and there is always someone who will want to bend the hierarchy for themselves but not others.

Just worship cats.

Didn't this exist already?
- Bast is best

Two tenants

You must protect those weaker than you
You may only punch up or in self defense.

honestly I don't know. When you look at the religions of the world all of them say "love and help each other please :) be good to your fellow human beings, be kind, be gentle" and then you look at the execution of those ideas by the majority of religious people- and it's all twisted and used for hate & you see people saying that without the threat of eternal punishment there is nothing holding them back from hurting others

instead of religion forcing compassion I'd say we should just teach compassion really

That’s wise, good ideas!
- That does sound wise. Let's make a religion out of teaching compassion! /j

Simply, I would love to start a religion on an already existing short story, The Egg: YouTube Link

Solves a bunch of programs with karma and if everyone believed it the world would undoubtedly be a better place.

Thank you I’ll check it out today.

Smoking weed to resolve differences

Peace pipe or death sentence, either way, someone has a good time.

Cookie based dogma.

Tak does not require we think of him, only that we think.
Terry Pratchett, Thud!

Discworld in general has a ton of good quotes, but Thud! is especially full of relevant ones, being about religious extremists warring against inconvenient truths.

I don't think there is a religion that can be overwhelmingly beneficial today.

Most religions already emphasize kindness, generosity and compassion but it is ultimately easily corruptable. Every religious group seemingly has to hate somebody.

Long ago it would have imperative to human development, to explain the world around us and to motivate people to work cooperatively. Science has fulfilled that role however and now it seems religion makes individuals closer minded, refusing to believe in reason.

If religious people sternly stuck to their principles (looking at American Christians) I don't even think we'd be having this conversation in the first place.

A religion that aims to have well built and healthy bodies to earn the favor of the gods from said religion.

What about disabilities?
- Well, disabled people still can try be healthy to their best extent. Helping others act upon the religion could also count.
- Burn them! Oh, that would make it into German nazism.

Gods do not exist and find your way through science and technology.

Oh, and if I’m mortally wounded, definitely do not put me in a machine and sacrifice thousands of psychics to keep me alive.

And remember, Gods don’t exist! Definitely don’t be a heretic or an alien!

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Probably a deist one. One where it says that God have left us, because he wanted that we need to go forwards without his guidance, and it's the only way to have more civilized society, especially given how bed-time stories don't have much to do with today's reality.

Nothing is True Everything is Permitted

Origin

This idiomatic expression originates from Friedrich Nietzsche, the famous philosopher who wrote the phrase in his 1859 book, "The Geneology of Morals." However, Nietzsche attributes the phrase's origin to Hassan-i-Sabbah, the leader of the historical Assassins. This sect was a part of Isma'ili and Shia Islam. However, there is no verified proof of these claims.

Maybe not the best source https://english-grammar-lessons.com/nothing-is-true-everything-is-permitted-meaning/

Ask questions. Evidence trumps all. Oh and I guess be nice.

But at that point it's effectively antithetical to anything religion is. Like the actual teachings of Jesus in the Bible are mostly good to live by. But because 90% of Christians (or other religions/pick a sect) never actually read the Bible, the actual religion in practice is a lot of preachers spreading their own shit or whatever the hierarchy says. And the core concept is to ignore reality and blindly trust the impossible.

Fuck no. A religion dictates:

what you think to be true or false. I'm a human thus an ignorant; there's no fucking way that I'd establish a system of beliefs that would be completely true. And the very fact that people would sheepishly look at my religion and say "its chrue cuz our faith says so lol" makes it counter-productive.
what you judge as good or bad. Except that my moral values might not hold so well across the time. Worse - once you gather a thousand people, most of them braindead muppets, some will care about the letter of those moral rules instead of the spirit.
what you do or don't. I'd be effectively removing agency from the people who follow my religion, telling them what they should be doing, be it on rituals or whatever.

I would add something about it being illegal to kill people and that being nice to everyone is a virtue!