Parody religion
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A parody religion, sometimes called 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. Often, the Internet activity of the parody religion is more important than any activities in real life, if the latter exists at all.
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).
Parody religions are almost never recognised by existing organised religions.
Other examples of parody religions are
- Bokononism
- Church of Beavis Christ
- Church of Emacs
- Church of Dolcett
- Church of Maradona, an Argentinian group of fans of the top football player Diego Armando Maradona.
- Church of the SubGenius (though some members deny the "parody" and insist they are a true religion)
- Discordianism (some Discordians maintain that their religion is not wholly without an element of seriousness)
- First Church of Jesus Christ, Elvis
- The First Church of the Last Laugh
- Fictionology
- Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
- Invisible Pink Unicorn
- Kibology
- Landover Baptist Church
- Last Thursdayism
- Rintellism
- Roshambo
- Shatnerology
- Tapism
- weluvducsoha
External links
- 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...
- 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
