Names and Prophets

"She told me that I would find the One." [Morpheus, The Matrix]

Religions have a funny way of gaining names. The most common way of naming religions, or the most accepted, is naming the religion after the primary prophet of that religion. Buddha was responsible for Buddhism, Jesus Christ was responsible for Christianity, and Juda was responsible for Judaism. That would mean that instead of calling my little religious revolution "Pathism" that I should be calling it "Morpheism."

But, you ask, shouldn't it be called Neoism?

No. Neo was the messiah in the situation of The Matrix, Morpheus was the prophet. To head off the cries about the OTHER person most point to as the prophet, the Oracle is just that... she was the Oracle. Oracles are not prophets, prophets are prophets.

Morpheus, after being informed of his destiny by the Oracle, began to pronounce the prophetic "coming of The One." Morpheus was the one trying to convince everyone that the end of their war was coming because their savior, their messiah, was imminent. Morpheus is the prophet.

The hedonistic religion based on The Matrix, called Matrixism, has decided to name itself after the movie itself. That would probably have been my first choice, but to be honest, that would have been the easy way out. Naming something after the most obvious part of the tale (or the Bible) would be hardly worth the effort. Morpheism has a better ring to it, which is also the most logical way to name the religion.

Pathism, if you haven't guessed, just became Morpheism.