Autodiathesism

This is a paradox that I came up with and first published on Facebook on June 28th, 2009.

The paradox takes the form of a religion, a religion that I have named Autodiathesism, or Diathesism for short, coming from the Greek word for self-determination.

Diathesism relies on two basic tenets.

1. God exists.
2. God wants his people to find their way independently, without believing in a God or other guiding spirit.

That is, he wants his people to find and live by a system of morality and ethics without thinking that a higher power is telling them what to do. Optimally, they wouldn't believe in any kind of God, and would be good people based on nothing but their own moral compass and philosophical musings.

The paradox lies in the second tenet, obviously, because a follower of Diathesism is essentially failing that tenet of the religion. At the same time, an atheist would be the greatest follower of Diathesism ever, except for the fact that he's an atheist, and doesn't believe in Diathesism.

Agnostics would make pretty great Diathesists as well, as would Epicureans and Deists. Pretty much anyone that either doesn't believe in God, doesn't know what they think about God, or believes that God doesn't give two shits about what people do, would be doing great in Diathesism, except they can't really be called Diathesists since they don't actually believe in Diathesism.

Because the moment they begin to believe in Diathesism, or proclaim themselves a Diathesist, they fail the second tenet and can't really be considered Diathesists any more. Or at least not very good ones.

So who can be a Diathesist?