If I had a good idea for motivating / helping people I would present it on its own merits.

Of course as a consultant I have become quite good at introducing ideas in such a way that my clients think they thought them up, and I'm happy to give them full credit for their brilliance Other times I'm hired specifically to champion something so I can take the fall if it doesn't work out.

I guess there's a fine line, though, between getting people on board with an idea without taking credit for it, and introducing it like a trojan horse under false pretenses. Religion is an inherently manipulative paradigm that stands as a proxy for empirical or rational thinking (at best) and a substitute for same (at worst, and most commonly). If there's a factual basis for a thing, then why would you need religion to prop it up?

I had a dream once that I should start a religion and use it to, 'help' people. When I woke up and analysed it it seemed a quite unethical thing to do really. I was staying with my Nanna at the time, who is into her church in a strong way and it's part of her community.

As the eminent historian Ronald Numbers revealed in his book "Prophetess of Health," published in 1976, few if any ideas regarding healthful living practices were original to Ellen G. White! Numbers' book reveals quote after quote of what we would today call 'copy and paste' from other contemporary authors of her time. And yet she still had the unmitigated gall to couch her writings with phrases like "It was revealed to me that..." etc. and to promote among her following that she was blessed with 'the Spirit of Prophecy.' Alas, she was just another in a seemingly endless line of religious plagiarists and charlatans!

To me it makes for a fun role playing game, to call 1stdayers (people who go to other churches that use the scripture religiously and do not follow what it says to do: eat fruit) satanic or anti-christ, because they worship false idols aka not following the unity principle of Pthagoreanism to bring health to their lives.
This group now holds a record for "longest lived people" in Loma Linda because of these Natural Hygiene and ethical practices. So while I might consider myself as having a militant agnostic point of view, saying unknowable stuff matters to have unknowable, like how our cells store create and use energy, etc I can get creative and accept that previous human culture on earth created used and has this tool to help in dominion on earth.

I find 7thdayers sort of like a network of raw till four people under an umbrella, the term Vegan Umbrella means people who say stuff like 'I do vegan-ism just not all the time, or mostly' and raw till 4 means not sticking to whole fresh ripe human food but eating meals of cookery later on throughout their days that will cause dehydration acid forming wastes anti nutrients, auto immune white blood cells reactions, mucus, and an over growth or microbiome bacterial colonies like candida etc who much like Alcohol Anonymous and Bill and Bob create a cycle of people who self depreciate as a reason to later admit their sin as a form of meaning and purpose to get renewal (baptism/confession?) on a continual basis(to wash away sin(eating non human cookery or not getting enough rest, sunshine clean air/water or surfing porn and doing drugs)).