if we must have religion, let's be ranters

"Even the working-class Levellers, Diggers, and Ranters had some acquaintance with Hermetic ideas or ideals - such as the esoteric interpretation of Scripture; universal tolerance; "pantheistic monism"; direct contact with the devine, without the intermediation of priest or Church; a tendency to antionomianism; a belief in the sacred quality of material Nature; an inclination to view "God" as "universal Reason" (or Mind); faith in the power of the imagination to change reality; social egalitarianism; the millennium or "World Turn'd Upside Down"; etc."

"A Ranter or proto-Ranter, who liked to "blaspheme gloriously" and preach in taverns while drinking and smoking, with a whore perched on his knee, might also have been attracted by the European image of Islam's sensuality. In effect Islam is a more pro-sexual religion than Christianity, and to some extent views pleasure as devine beneficence."

- Peter Lamborn Wilson; Pirate Utopias, Moorish Corsairs & European Renegadoes; A Christian Turn'd Turk.