Parody religion
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A parody religion or mock religion is a parody of a religion, sect or cult. One parody religion can make a parody of several religions, sects, gurus and cults at the same time.
In some parody religions the emphasis is on making fun and being a convenient excuse for pleasant social interaction among like minded, e.g. Brianism and the Church of the SubGenius.
Other parody religions target a specific religion, sect, cult, or new religious movement such as Eckankar. Usually only ex-members of the specific group can understand it and are interested in it.
A rare example of a parody religion movie is Monty Python's Life of Brian (not related to the Brianism mentioned above).
In 2001 following an internet campaign, the fictional Star Wars "religion" Jedi became a parody religion as 0.7% of the UK population were persuaded to state their religion as Jedi in the official census (see Jedi census).
It should be noted that several religions which parody traditional religion claim to have a number of relatively serious followers who embrace the absurdity of these religions as spiritually significant, a decidedly post-modern approach to religion. The most notable of these "ha ha, only serious" religions is Discordianism.
Parody religions are almost never recognised by existing organized religions.
List of parody religions
- Betty Bowers Christian Ministries
- Bokononism
- Brianism
- Cedriconian
- Chipism
- Church of Beavis Christ
- Church of Chuck Norris
- Church of the Holy Donut
- Christianity to the Extreme
- Church of Emacs
- Church of The Mars Volta
- Discordianism
- Church of Dolcett
- Eventualism
- Church of Maradona, an Argentinian group of fans of the top football player Diego Armando Maradona.
- First Church of Jesus Christ, Elvis
- The First Church of the Last Laugh
- Fictionology
- Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
- Frisbeetarianism
- Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Kekkosism
- Kibology
- Landover Baptist Church
- Last Thursdayism
- MOOism
- Natism
- Church of the Monteith Pony
- Omarian
- Ornamentalism
- Presleyterianism
- Rigism
- Rintellism
- Roshambo
- Shatnerology
- Church of the SubGenius (Started as a parody of Scientology)
- Tapism
- Spatula Day
- Church of Wrestling
- Church of the Overly-Obese Orangutan
- The Church of Charles Bronson
- The Clock Crew (worship Strawberry clock as a god or a king)
- Universal Testicularism
See also
External links
- Christianity to the Extreme Following The Josh as Our Savior
- Allelujah your here at last... Parody of New Age, Sathya Sai Baba and other gurus
- Landover Baptist Church Parody of Christianity
- Betty Bowers Parody of Christianity
- The Force is a Tool of Satan - Episode III ALERT! Parody of Star Wars as a Religion
- St IGNUcius Richard Stallman's funny reaction to people accusing him of extremism
- TigerWoodsIsGod.com No mortal should be able to play like that, thus...
- The Official Church of Chuck Norris Forums The culmination of Chuck Norris "fact" lovers into a Church setting. Created by Logan Bertrand as a loose parody of Catholicism.
- Scientology Losing Ground To New Fictionology Onion article parodying religion
- Vote Jedi Outlining the claims of the Jedi Religion, and the inherent unfairness of awarding privileges to any religious group
- The Church of Stop Shopping Just give me your wallet! Let go!
- The Church of Beaver Cleaver Description of its theology from 1982
- The Church of MOO. Parody of mainstream religion.
- Church of Spatula Day Church Of Spatula Day, The Pseudo-Religion of some Spatula Day Followers
- Flying Spaghetti Monster FSM entry at the Uncyclopedia.
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