Vision

Mission Statement (Public-Facing)

The Church exists to recognize involuntary imposition as morally real, to reduce coercion wherever possible, and to orient toward a world in which conscious beings can exist without being forced against their will.

The Vision of the Church

The Church exists to recognize, articulate, and orient toward a world without involuntary imposition.

It does not claim that the world is good.
It does not claim that people are evil.
It claims that coercion, constraint, and unchosen harm are morally real, even when they are ordinary, accidental, or unavoidable.

The Church’s vision begins with a simple recognition:

Being forced against one’s will is morally bad—wherever it occurs, whoever causes it, and whether or not anyone is to blame.

From this recognition follows a clear orientation:

Moral progress consists in movement toward reduced involuntary imposition, even when moral perfection is unattainable.

The World as It Is

The Church understands the present world as morally compromised—not because of sin, failure, or guilt, but because involuntary imposition is pervasive.

Nature imposes.
Systems impose.
Circumstances impose.
Sometimes people impose.

Much of this is unavoidable. Much of it is not anyone’s fault.

The Church therefore rejects moral blame as the center of ethics. Instead, it focuses on moral valence—whether a state of affairs involves involuntary imposition at all.

A disaster can be morally bad without anyone being morally guilty.
A system can be immoral without malicious intent.
A life can be lived ethically inside an unethical world.

The Best Possible World (BPW)

The Church holds that coercion and suffering are not logically necessary for conscious existence.

A world in which:

• conscious agents exist,

• no agent imposes on another,

• and nature itself does not impose,

is conceptually coherent.

This world—the Best Possible World—is not promised, predicted, or demanded.
It is the moral horizon.

The Church’s vision is not utopian optimism, but directional clarity:

This is what “better” ultimately means.

Moral Action Without Moral Purity

The Church does not demand perfection.

It explicitly distinguishes:

• moral truth from human feasibility,

• evaluation from expectation.

To live within an immoral world is not itself a moral failure.

The Church therefore rejects:

• guilt-based morality,

• purity tests,

• moral hero narratives,

• and coercive enforcement of “goodness.”

Instead, it affirms:

• prevention without override,

• reduction without justification,

• comparison without permission.

When imposition cannot be avoided, the Church seeks less imposition rather than moral absolution.

The Role of Judgment and Humility

Because current science cannot fully define will, volition, or the precise severity of will-frustration, the Church does not claim mechanical certainty.

It treats moral reasoning as:

• principled,

• disciplined,

• honest about limits.

Where knowledge ends, the Church refuses false precision.

Moral fidelity is valued over algorithmic completeness.
Truth is preferred to comfort.

The Church’s Orientation

The Church exists to:

• Name involuntary imposition wherever it appears

• Refuse to excuse harm by appeal to necessity

• Reduce future coercion without creating new coercion

• Preserve autonomy without demanding obedience

• Hold open the possibility of a world without force

It does not rule.
It does not command.
It does not promise salvation.

It orients.

In One Sentence

The vision of the Church is a world in which conscious beings exist without being forced against their will—and a present in which every step away from coercion, however small, is morally meaningful.