{"id":943,"date":"2014-01-22T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/01\/the-church-of-kanye-west-yeezianity-and-humanism.html"},"modified":"2014-01-22T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T22:14:00","slug":"the-church-of-kanye-west-yeezianity-and-humanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/01\/the-church-of-kanye-west-yeezianity-and-humanism.html","title":{"rendered":"The Church of Kanye West: \u2018Yeezianity\u2019 and Humanism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares Yeezianity \u201cTHE BEST CHURCH OF ALL TIME!!!!!\u201d Like any good religion, it has several pillars of the faith (\u201cMoney is unnecessary except as a means of exchange\u201d) and rules about \u201cOur Savior,\u201d which include never speaking his real name and calling him only Yeezus. But it would appear Kanye West is the greatest savior our world never had.<\/span><\/div>\n
In a recent\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0VICE<\/em>, the (anonymous) founder of this religion that worships Kanye West said that Yeezianity was not for real:<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201cI believe in what it is, and that\u2019s real.\u00a0But is there a real organized religion behind it? There is not.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
The founder goes on to say that Yeezianity is \u201cjust a rehashing Christianity,\u201d with Kanye West taking the place of Jesus. He extols Kanye\u2019s virtues as a creative genius, calling him \u201cthe most honest person in our culture.\u201d Okay, perhaps. I\u2019m inclined to disagree, but that\u2019s a fair opinion to have. But the strange thing about this (okay, one of the strange things) is that Yeezianity, as\u00a0The Week\u2019<\/em>s Peter Weber\u00a0points out<\/a>, is just another strain of humanism.<\/span><\/div>\n
Humanism is the idea that human agency is to be prized and protected above tradition and rationalism above faith. It is often totally secular, but in the case of Yeezianity, integrates religion \u2014 the founder believes there is a god and that god and science are not opposed. Yeezus is the ultimate embodiment of humanist values: self-made, bold, influential.<\/span><\/div>\n

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