Origin
Neophism is a small and modern religion. It is democratically ran with a living document, the Neophicon, as its founding document. The Neophicon was written by Joshua Petersen, who had studied religion and logic, and decided that the world needed a more logic-based religion.


Values
Neophism is based on the idea that ideology and values should be based off of reason, analysis, and logic. As such, it holds math, science, humanitarian efforts, and more in high regard. The values of freedom, choice, and happiness for all are all held in high regard as well.


Morality
One of the core tenents of Neophism is the Neophatic equation, a method for determining how good something is. The logic behind this equation is given in the Neophicon. The equation is good = (newly available choices/original available choices)*(approval of resulting experience of those affected/dislike of resulting experience of those affected). For shorthand for this equation, we use a unit of measure called the Nepia, or we substitute the symbol φ for it. The Nepia is not a standardized unit, it should be noted, and is mainly useful for comparing values when they use variables of the same units to create it. (The term and symbol use exist mainly to ease conversational use). For example, a value of 1 nepia caused by a 1 choice gain multiplied by (approval of 100 people/disapproval of 50 people) shouldn't be considered equal to a value of 1 nepia gained by increase of 2 choices when you're 50% torn between two different shirts to buy. For more accurate terms, original variable names should generally be kept.

(G/g)od(dess)((e)s)
Neophists are occasionally asked if they believe in (G/g)od(dess)((e)s). The answer depends on how you define (G/g)od(dess)((e)s). Neophism could be called an Atheist, Agnostic, Humanist, Monotheistic, Polytheistic, or Panegotheistic religion depending on your definition. However, in general, Neophism doesn't concern itself with any kind of worship, and acknowledgement/dismissal of any given (G/g)od(dess)((e)s) is made on purely academic and logical grounds, and left up largely to the individual member. Typically, if (G/g)od(dess)((e)s) can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, we'll likely acknowledge it. If it can't, then we won't. (Note: acknowledgement is different than worship. We acknowledge leaders of various world governments are likely to exist, this does not, however, mean they are worthy of being followed or worship. That something should be worshiped is a completely different thing that would have to be proved.)