Revelationist Garfism

Revelationist Garfism (sometimes referred to as Post-Modern NeoGarfism) is a religion that evolved from Garfism during Revelationist Period of Greenstem. The split hoped to bring Garfism back to a perceived holier time before it was twisted to the political goals of recent rulers of Greenstem. Revelationist Garfism revolves around the worship of The Forgotten God Garf, and the Saints, mortals acting as aspects of Garf's will. The canon includes texts from the Old Church of Garfism as well as new modern texts. The main branch of Garfism, Ruled by the Arbiter, runs the city of Felesia the second stem as a Delem within Tortuga, while the Prophet's Garfist Church branch off Sect runs the State of Greenstem within Valondor as a theocratic state. Prominent Garfist symbols include the Blue, White, and Black tri-colour flag which has been in use since February 2021, the Tael which is a cross representing the shine of Arbuckle's Lasagna on Garf's Tail, the Orange, Black and Yellow colours representing the Tail of Garfield or the latter itself and a 8 pointed sun symbol representing too Garfield itself. 
=== Church structure ===
The Church of Garfism has a strict hierarchy that extends throughout the politics, culture, and theology of Greenstem. The Arbiter of Garf's Will, first deified in the Revelation of Lasagna, acts as the leader of Garfism. The current Arbiter is Luke Greencoat (getluked) of the Goldencoat line. The mostly ceremonial position of Throne, is crowned by the Arbiter and is the mayor of the Holy City of Greenstem. The last Throne was Gideon Greenstir (bossmancfp). the Cardinals, another highly cerimonial position given by the Arbiter to the Bishops who standout of the rest, the last known Cardinal was Cardinal Morfetico Humblewood (CapitaoMorfetico) but after a heretic act he lost his position. The Bishops, Bishops are ordained by the Arbiter and give counsel to the Arbiter and Throne, as well as write theology. Below the Bishops are Members of the Clergy, who discuss theology, can build and run churches, and work with the Church. A holy order of knights named the Order of the Eternal Sunday act as the military branch of the church. These knights were called by Garf to come to the holy land.
=== Holyest text ===
===== Garfism (A Revision by Frederick Goldencoat) =====
On the first Monday of the lands of Rathnir, The Great Hound, Odie, stole the memory of the one true god, Garf, from the memories of man. False gods and unholy kings have run rampant ever since, and the power of Garf is fading. Garf and his meaty lasagna are worshiped by few that are unaffected by Odie’s curse. We are now stuck in the Great Hound, Odie’s, eternal cycle of Monday. However, there is still hope for ascension. Only through the worship of Garf, and the cleansing of heretics, can the virtuous Garfist hope to join Garfield and live in an Eternal Sunday. It is essential that we save the Forgotten God. A select few mortals are so divine they ascend past the Eternal Sunday and serve as aspects of Garf himself. These saints are worshiped alongside Garf. A list of those believed to have ascended remain in Greenstem.
find other texts in the Garfist Texts
=== Notable Garfist events ===
The Church promotes these events as the most important and foundational to the religion.
==== Origins ====
Garfism was first founded in Serafini where it spread quickly. Many of the Garfists went west and discovered an ancient Akratian fort. The city of Greenstem was founded around this fort. Greenstem is where the fabled, Revelation of Lasagna would occur.
==== Revelation of Lasagna ====
In the early days of Greenstem’s founding (around Feb 2021), an orange and black striped pillar appeared at a hill outside of the farming village. The Garfist text ‘Sacrifice’ was written about the event.
==== Massacre of Greenstem ====
During the Akratian Civil War, a lengthy conflict between rebellious Akratian cities, Leyth-ians, Akratian Loyalists, and Garfists occurred. The Garfists were fighting to take their homeland back which they had lost years prior. The final battle of this war was held in Greenstem in which the Free Greenstem Army retook the holy land from the Akratians with no losses. 
==== Garfpocalypse ====
At a ritual sacrifice of Revelationist Garfists taking place around Garf's Tail, a sudden army of Odie's demons and an aspect of Odie himself appeared and attacked the worshippers. After a long fight there, the worshippers eventually won, and they saw visions of an aspect of Garf sitting atop the tail. The worshippers circled the tail, chanting prayers, and eventually there appeared a ladder going into the sky above the street in Greenstem. The group of worshippers climbed it up to the clouds which they could stand on, and in front of them there was a golden pillar, upon which was perched an aspect of Garf, a glowing orange cat with fiery wings. Garf talked extensively to the worshippers, and appointed them as his chosen people to bring the Kingdom of Garf upon the whole world. At the end of this, the aspect of Garf asked if they wanted anything, and the group humbly returned that they did not. Garf gave his blessing and promise to the Garfists, and they floated safely to the ground. Garf raised Frederick Greencoat into the Eternal Sunday, speaking to him privately and bestowing the ultimate knowledge of the universe upon him, as well as a holy artifact, The Davis Lasagna, before returning him back to the ground. 
==== Second Stem ====
A group of Garfists left Greenstem and settled a new town in the south of the Church's territory near the ruin of Apple Harbour. The town would be named Felesia, after the somewhat antiquated terms Feles used to describe a race of cat folk originating in Western Sparwood. As the town's population grew the Arbiter would give the town the title of "Second Stem", honouring it as a new spiritual beacon in Rathnir. Garf would soon after send flaming cats as messengers that he approved of the city's title. The messengers left behind an immovable idol, representing his divine image. Prince Luke Greencoat, ruler of the city, would be named a Cardinal shortly after the event.
==== Unholyzation of Greenstem ====
In a time of rebelion the, at the time, Arbiter Fredrick Greencoat joined the Libertalia O'Valondor, a rebel nation in Tortuga, when the imminent war started Valondor lost its first battle and them collapsed soon after, with Greenstem returning to the Tortugan management the city was punished, the Arbiter Fredrick Greencoat hunted and killed by tortugan assassins, the city was pillaged, and the land turned unholy as the tail of Garf vanished, before his death, Fredrick entrusted his grandson and close confidant, Luke Greencoat, with the pivotal role of arbiter, Fredrick had become the eleventh saint in the Garfist pantheon, with a statue and cathedral built in your honor by the bishop Morfetico Humblewood. this event lead to the darkest times for the Garfist people as they lost their city, their previous arbiter and the tail.
=== Prophet's Garfist Church branch off Sect ===
==== Differences from the main Garfist branch ====
* this sect has the Prophet as the one in the highest position, instead of the arbiter
* many of the simbolism of the sect is based of the Prophet Morfetico Humblewood preference, who found beauty on Garf's colours, Orange, Black, Yellow and white, many if not all religious arquitectural design made by the prophet or inspired by, might have orange or light yellow roofs as its the colour most representative of Garfield's fur or the combination of orange with black representing the tail of garf.
* and many more differences that might come with the time
==== Prophet's Garfism Origin ====
Years before, Morfetico Humblewood a at the time Garfist bishop, heard a prophecy in a cold night, from what he describes:"I was laying in my bed in a dreamless sleep. Tae air was cold, quiet but for tae wind blowing on tae Felesian peaks. Until a voice booms, hitting my chest like a sledgehammer. I shoot awake realizing the sound wasn’t from outside but from within my head. ”Awake child, for the tides of Sparwood shift. My presence grows ever thinner in this land. Awake child, for I have a task for you. Humble and pious, an example for all who wish to join me above. Awake child, for the time has come. My prophet will be revealed. May they take their task seriously. Awake child, you must find them. They may not know their purpose yet, but it shall be revealed to them soon. Awake Morfetico Humblewood, you have work ahead of you.” Just as quick as tae voice came it went, leaving me alone once more."For years he waited for the prophet to be revealed, but he only seen Garf's presence truly grows even thinner, while being a bishop and later a cardinal he devoutly built many more Garfist cites and baptized many new Garfists to the faith soon for them to be gone due to the lack of activity, the artifacts stolen by Tortuga getting dust, while the Arbiter Luke nothing planned nor charged nothing from tortuga, and so Humblewood finally hit the awake call, he had got the Holy City of Greenstem, got the rests of the poorly treated Tail of Garf from tortuga and had the devotion to bring the faith to new heights, the only thing in his way was the position, but so he said:"Why should i care for tae positions given by others?, God told to me that i had work to do, and so i shall take the lead of the faith, as the most pious Garfist of my time i shall declare my self the Prophet, the one who will guide the faith to new heights, who will bring shift to the tides of Sparwood, who will reform the Holy State of Greenstem to its highest glory, with help of the Valondori sympathizers, many from the older times of Garfism".
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