Parody religion

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A parody religion is a modern religion thought up to mock or ape the principles, beliefs, and self-righteousness of "real" religions; those in which people seriously believe.

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[edit] List of parody religions

  • Absolute Truth Ministries (ATM) - Weeds Season 3
  • Arceusology
  • Bokononism (From the novel 'Cat's Cradle' by Kurt Vonnegut)
  • The Church of Firefox
  • The Church of Google
  • Church of the Helix Choir
  • The Church Of Inglip
  • Church of Madoka (if you like anime and magical girls)
  • Church of Stop Shopping. An anti-consumerist performance group headed by "Reverend Billy"[wp] (no, not that Reverend Billy).
  • Church of the SubGenius
  • Dudeism. A vaguely Daoist'esque[wp] religion based on the tenets of The Dude.[wp]
  • Frisbeeterianism - Celebrates the universality and perfection of the shape of the frisbee. Adherents believe that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and no one can get it down.
  • Gloomism (worship of the Pokemon Gloom as a god). Opposes Arceusology and calls Arceus a false god.
  • The Great Space Butterfly
  • Haruhiism. The Church of Madoka (see above) is heresy. Haruhiism is the one true anime and magical girl based religion.
  • Helicalism/Helixism (worship of the Helix Fossil) and most of the many other Twitch Plays Pokemon-based religions
  • Jedi
  • Pastafarianism
  • Scientology - uniquely on this list, its adherents don't know it.[1]
  • Truffidianism - Jeff Vandermer's fantasy novel Finch
  • Unicornism
  • Verdukianism - the "Secret Santa" episode of 30 Rock, Dec. 10, 2009

[edit] Parody religions that can be taken seriously

[edit] Parody religions that are probably bad for your health

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. Seriously. He started it for fun with some writer buddies.
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