The bedrock of our transformational civilization agenda is an absolutely correct understanding of broad reality which will be popularly articulated through an existing framework familiar to human societies — a religion.

Religions have not existed historically in human societies for no reason. They have historically been ascribed the task of answering questions, even if only tacitly, about abstract things like what exists, why we exist, the goal of our existence, and what happens to us after we die.

That a power exists which is able to wrap the universe around its mind, which happens to be beyond our immediate comprehension, is easy induction.

God doesn't exist, like some people like to argue, because "there must be a first cause". We do not know enough to say that in an absolute sense. What is true though is that we have no practical examples of a fundamental thing coming into being without having been created. It is thus the most rigorous assumption that we can make that there is a creator behind our reality. But this is only true within our own reality. It may well be possible that things work differently outside of our current reality.

Popular atheists and other anti-religion activists like to dismiss the idea of God based on inconsistencies and imperfections in popular Abrahamic religions. What they rarely seem to do is carefully examine whether Abrahamic religions may be ultimately wrong on the details, but directionally fundamentally correct anyway.

The problem with Abrahamic religions is that they lack rigorous epistemology.

People who dismiss religion narrowly, with blemishes of Abrahamic religions, usually do not understand religion in its whole.

Stuff like the metaphysical and existential claims about God and the hereafter, and the mythology of prophets and angels, are only a component of the phenomenon. The moral and material prescriptions about how to live a good life are another.

The metaphysical and existential claims though drive the moral and material prescriptions. People should be kind to their neighbors so as to end up in the Kingdom of Heaven. Fornication is wrong because God forbids it and anyone who indulges in it will end up in Hellfire. Abrahamic religions have a direct link between the existential claims and the regular life prescriptions.

With improved human scientific and technological prowess, the metaphysical and existential claims now rest on shaky grounds. And it seems that with that has come decreasing belief and steadfastness in Abrahamic religions, consequently impacting people's devotion to the material and moral prescriptions.

There are people who realize the usefulness of the packaged culture via the prescriptions which Abrahamic religions provide and wish to retain them. Some of them refer to themselves with terms such as "cultural Christian", imagining that they can separate the functional prescriptions from actual belief. They accept that the prescriptions are desirable based on their evolutionary survival through the times, and modern examination of the impact of various social mores.

And there are those people think that people should be capable of being kind to their neighbors because neighborly reciprocity is optimal game-theory. Or that people should be able to be chaste because of the functional benefits of avoiding potential resulting baggage. They think that the prescriptions can be stripped away from the religion jargon based on the their apparent utility.

Unfortunately, These sorts of things are never going to work.

Because, without the fundamental orienting belief, then your "practices" are just an ideology based on personal preference, which then has to compete with other ideologies. What makes your ideology more worthy of adoption in that sense?

And because each set of prescription, in whatever variation, basically make up a set of cultural practice, this sends you down the path of the sort of problems with multiculturalism.

And with that, there still remain all of the unsolved existential questions of life. Why do humans exist? Who created our world? What happens after we die? What do individual humans live for?

And there are the one who understand the usefulness of the prescriptions, sorta realize the importance of the fundamental orienting belief, do not actually believe in it, but feign belief anyway, in order to reap the rewards of a fulfilled life following the prescriptions. This of course doesn't work either.

The belief has to be real for things to work long term.

The importance of the fundamental orienting belief to lay the foundation for moral and material prescriptions is why some other people think that all religions must make claims of a divine and metaphysical origin. Fortunately, this isn't true.

We can derive truths about existence based on our observation of reality. The source of our beliefs do not have to be metaphysical.

So it is actually true that God exists, and there is a purpose to existence. And from there do we derive our moral principles. Whatever aids the fundamental civilizational purpose of human existence is good, and the things which impede it are bad.

We are going to use principles we derive from our understanding of fundamental reality to create cultural practices by which we will achieve the desired cultural reform across Africa.