I wouldn't mind starting my own religion, if I thought it could do some good in the world. But I don't want to start some shitty cult religion like this Rael nonsense. I'd start a religion that was based on sound moral principles, as communicated by God to mankind over thousands of years. It's a mystery why some new religions prosper and most fall by the wayside after the death of their founder. Because most flounder for loss of their founder. Only a very few can outlive the men who created them. A couple or three examples -- Scientology, created by SF writer L. Ron Hubbard as a cynical money-making fraud that induced members to spill their guts about their past lives, which were recorded, and then used to blackmail them; Mormanism, created by spirit medium Joseph Smith, who talked to spirits through a rock, which he placed in his top hat; Wicca, created by Gerald Gardner, an eccentric Englishman who like to run around naked and enjoyed a little light corporal punishment to stimulate the blood. All three were nutballs, but the religions created by all three are still around, long after their deaths.