Mark L. Collins

Namian Christianity: Less is More Mark L. Collins

Meet the namian (pronounced NAHM ee n) people. As different from us as night and day in their vices, yet strikingly similar in their virtues.

This is the story of the namian Jesus of Nazareth, whose loving message is similar to that of our Jesus. However, there are a few important differences: no hell-fire, no god, no dogmas, more love of enemies, and a scientist's focus on validation of all claims. In particular, the namian Jesus was a stickler about science's most fundamental rule: that which is contradicted by the evidence is simply false.

Because of these essential differences, the namian Jesus did not start a new religion, but a societal revolution that boosted moral progress not by focusing on morality but on greater happiness and a more useful type of altruistic love, in which all negotiations seek to greatly enlarge the pies before they are divided. 

The novel follows the namian history to the present day, tracing the influence of their Jesus on their most important thinkers, and is an indispensable background for the futuristic namian novel, Our Lovable Mirror Image: A History of the Future.

This novel is the most succinct definition of the new philosophy of life called "science-based religion," which is illustrated most dramatically in The Ineffable Prince of Denmark and Bury My Heart with Aaron's God, and more philosophically in Maximum Irony.