YEEZIANITY. No you’re not dreaming or watching a “Saturday Night Live” sketch featuring Kanye West. The “I Am A God” rapper actually now has a religious following. According to the official website, followers of Yeezianity believe “that the one who calls himself Yeezus is a divine being who has been sent by God to usher in a New Age of humanity.” In an interview with Noisey, an anonymous follower says the religion is founded upon “5 pillars”:
1. All things created must be for the good of all.
2. No human being’s right to express themselves must ever be repressed.
3. Money is unnecessary except as a means of exchange.
4. Man possesses the power to create everything he wants and needs.
5. All human suffering exists to stimulate the creative powers of Man.
Ironically, Kanye does not practice the majority of these principles, famously rapping in his 2004 hit “All Falls Down,” “I went to Jacob with 25 thou’, before I had a house and I’d do it again!” But skeptics be amazed that the group’s founder, who created the group a month ago, maintains that Yeezianity is a real religion, according to the interview with Noisey:
“In a lot of ways, after I created it, I reflected on it and thought that this was just a rehashing of Christianity, but just throwing Yeezus instead of Jesus. And you know what? That’s why I felt Kanye did it. He just put the name there. Jesus has all this baggage and all these connotations, and Yeezus is this new thing — and that’s why I say in the ‘Our Savior’ part of the site, ‘We don’t speak of his public persona.’ Because Yeezus is when Kanye elevates to that God-level, which I feel like we all have the potential to do. That’s why if it takes off, in the future, people would forget Kanye and his antics, and instead focus on what the message is.”
As of yet, no word from Yeezus or his camp.