filters.

an interesting conversation emerged yesterday as i say with friends at starbucks. one chap, who`s name escapes me for the moment, suggested that we all start a church based on filters and he went around and asked us all to choose our filtering methods and thesis. it didn`t strike me right away what he was saying, but then i realised that filtering is exactly what religion and government and science do. they allow so much and restrict so much else in a consistant way that creates a type of collective thinking which only flows along set pathways.
what would happen to society if we changed the filters?