The Apostasy

The Apostasy is a crew on the Meridian Ocean.

History
Innersanctum created the crew The Apostasy in July 2008. The crew as it started was mainly a hide out base for Innersanctum, who didn't want to be part of big political games on Puzzle Pirates, and work Independent far away from it. Later on, he asked around if there were people willing to join his crew in order to make a Flag later on named Shem ha-Mephorash, and some did. Now The Apostasy is a small crew with members working close with each other, still Independent from all other Flags and Crews in the ocean.

Meaning of The Apostasy
The term refers to renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to, one's former religion, or in this case the political games on Puzzle Pirates. The word derives from Greek (apostasia), meaning a defection or revolt, from, apo, "away, apart", stasis, "stand", "standing".

Apostasy is the formal religious disaffiliation or abandonment or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used sometimes by sociologists without the pejorative connotations of the word, the term refers to renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to, one's former religion. One who commits apostasy is an apostate, or one who apostatizes. The word derives from Greek (apostasia), meaning a defection or revolt, from, apo, "away, apart", stasis, "stand", "standing". The term is sometimes also used to refer to renunciation of a belief or cause by (generally facetious) extension of the religious connotation, such as in reference to a political party or a sports team.

Apostasy is generally not a self-definition: very few former believers call themselves apostates and they generally consider this term to be a pejorative. Many religious movements consider it a vice (sin), a corruption of the virtue of piety in the sense that when piety fails, apostasy is the result. Unlike apostasy, heresy is the rejection or corruption of certain doctrines, not the complete abandonment of one's religion. Heretics claim to still be following a religion (or even to be the "true believers"), whereas apostates reject it entirely.

Many religious groups and even some states punish apostates. Apostates may be shunned by the members of their former religious group or worse. This may be the official policy of the religious group or may happen spontaneously. A church may in certain circumstances respond to apostasy by excommunicating the apostate, while some Abrahamic scriptures (Judaism: Deuteronomy 13:6-10) and Islam: al-Bukhari, Diyat, bab 6) demand the death penalty for apostates.

Public Statement
What is good? - everything augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man. What is evil? - whatever springs from weakness. What is happiness? - the feeling that power increases - that resistance is overcom.

Extended Public Statement
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond. What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is mine, and it is not a general one, but is -- unique, as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself! Paint me as a dead soul ... The flesh, the image, the reflection Let's complete the illusion. God is absence. God is the solitude of man. Let them hate me, so that they will but fear me. Those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them Bring them here and kill them in front of me. I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am millions of forms excreating; eternal; and nothing exists except through me; yet I am not them - they serve me.