I came here to say something similar: Do the rules of religion prohibit molding any religion to serve any purpose? What rules? Your religion can be anything you want it to be. Moreover, nobody can interpret the doctrines or traditions of your religion for you, unless they actually believe in precisely the same religion.
> Do the rules of religion prohibit molding any religion to serve any purpose? What rules?
Quite obviously yes. The purpose of Christianity is to serve God or something like that. You cannot change it to serve God and Elon Musk as you cannot have other gods.
>Your religion can be anything you want it to be.
Well yes but it will be your own personal religion, not a religion that is shared by anybody.
Agreed, to be a "religion" it should have more than one follower. I don't think they have to all believe exactly the same things, as there are variations and divisions of belief even within mainstream religions. But there should at least be some commonality of belief, or a shared administrative structure.
The idea that Christians should serve God and the poor was popular in my day.
But a religion could be molded gradually by a series of tiny steps, especially if given time to develop apologetic explanations to cover for what seem like contradictions. I remember reading that a prominent Christian leader proclaimed Donald Trump to be sent by God to rule us, and his idea gained some popularity. I prefer to let the religious sort out for themselves what's consistent with their doctrines.
