Our Educational Objective
Replacing religion with education: light, learning, love, and liberty in the age after material religion.
Education Over Religion
Yeshuans is, first and foremost, an education-first platform.
In what we call the age after material religion, we believe that the best, most productive, most realistic, and most liberating approach to faith is one that replaces religion with education.
Religion, at its core, has historically functioned as an external system designed to govern spiritual life through structure, authority, and ritual. Education, by contrast, is an internal process; a humble and continual pursuit of understanding that leads to genuine growth, empathy, and love. Our conviction is that when religion ends, education must begin.
What We Mean by Education
Education, as we understand it, is a continually widening, opening, and unceasing exploration of truth. Where religion narrows the mind to protect a single system of belief, education expands it to reveal broader context and deeper humility.
- Religion seeks certainty; education welcomes questions.
- Religion deepens within one perspective; education broadens across many.
- Religion produces pride in “right belief”; education cultivates humility through constant discovery.
For us, this widening of perspective is not about collecting facts, but about learning how to love better. Education is not a path to “qualify” oneself before God – it is a way of becoming more capable of love.
In religion, knowledge is often treated as the prerequisite for salvation: one must believe the right things to be accepted by God. In education, knowledge is simply a tool – a means of improving our ability to live out love, patience, mercy, and understanding toward others. Education, therefore, serves no institutional goal. It serves only the individual’s relationship to truth – and through that, their capacity for love.
The Split: Education and Service
In the fulfilled age, we believe the practice of religion — the repeated, material effort to improve one’s spiritual status — has reached its natural, justified conclusion. What once was handled through collective religious systems is now better served through two individual pursuits: education and service.
- Education trains the mind and spirit toward understanding truth.
- Service exercises that understanding through action and love.
Together, they replace the old religious model. Instead of ritual and obedience, we emphasize learning and giving — two efforts that create continual renewal without control or hierarchy. This model is not theoretical; it’s how we aim to live and teach.
Building the Yeshuan School
Our ultimate educational goal is to establish a School – a dedicated institution devoted to teaching the Yeshuan approach: learning, living, and loving in the freedom of fulfilled faith. This school will follow the Four L’s: Light, Learning, Love, and Liberty. This framework, taught in our Yeshuan Courses, guides personal and spiritual development toward independent relationship with God.
The objective is not conversion or conformity, but building up individual strength of Spirit in liberty through understanding, helping individuals grow freer in spirit by becoming wiser, humbler, and more loving in practice. Every part of the Yeshuans platform, our courses, discussions, and media, exists to prepare for and support this School.
How This Differs from Church Today
The difference between education and religion is not merely functional; it is foundational.
Religion
- Centers on institutions
- Measures righteousness
- Tacitly and/or explicitly demands adherence
- Narrows scope
- Operates through spiritual authority
- Produces fear and division
Education
- Centers on individuals
- Encourages learning
- Invites curiosity
- Expands context
- Operates through understanding
- Produces liberty and empathy
Where the church model relies on hierarchy, we rely on open access to knowledge.
Where religion guards truth through exclusivity, we explore truth through dialogue.
Where religion claims authority, education demands accountability to reality itself.
This is not a rejection of faith, it’s the evolution of faith.
Faith, after the end of religion, becomes an educational posture: a humble willingness to learn from The Spirit and from experience.
A Proposal for the Future
We envision a future in which the primary role once held by religious institutions, teaching, mentoring, and moral development, is fully taken up by education and service.
Instead of teaching people what to believe, we teach them how to seek truth honestly for themselves.
Instead of defining boundaries of belonging, we help individuals cultivate understanding and love that transcend boundaries altogether.
And all other material resources become, then, dedicated to humanitarian service.
This is our proposal:
Religion gives way to education.
Faith remains — but now, it grows through learning, not law.