Abeguwo
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Remember when you were a kid, and joked that the rain was God peeing? Well...
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Asher yatzar
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A Jewish blessing, read to praise the ability to excrete urine or faeces.
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Axinomancy
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Foretelling the future by looking at an axe or hatchet.
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Ben Hana
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A homeless man in
Wellington,
New Zealand who worshiped the
Māori
sun-god
Ra (not to be confused with the
ancient Egyptian sun-god
Ra).
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Braco (faith healer)
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Meet the Gazer and be healed with a single
glance.
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Cargo cult
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Tribal rites and rituals developed in the belief they will attract the goods, wealth and materials – the "cargo" – of a more technologically advanced and affluent culture.
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Church of the SubGenius
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A parody religion created in Texas which preaches that a
1950s salesman, who is also a yeti, is their messiah and tries to protect people from the numerous conspiracies that haunt their lives.
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Coconut Religion
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A religion founded in Vietnam that advocates subsisting solely off of coconuts and coconut milk, created a "Coconut Kingdom" on an islet of the Mekong River, and referred to its leader and founder as "His Coconutship".
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Crepitus (mythology)
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A Roman god of flatulence (allegedly)
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Ded Moroz
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Like Santa, but Russian, and blue.
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Dendera light
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Does an engraving of the Egyptian creation myth show that Ancient Egypt had lightbulbs? As it turns out, no.
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Dhana Kumari Bajracharya
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A woman did not walk for 60 years.
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Dinkoism
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A parody religion that places
Dinkan, a comic character from
Malayalam children's magazine
Balamangalam, as the one true God and the creator of the Universe.
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Disconnection (Scientology)
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The result of a poor signal with
Scientology.
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Fluffy bunny
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A controversial
epithet in
Wicca.
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Flying Spaghetti Monster
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The basis of a
satirical religion created to make fun of
intelligent design.
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Gang Bing
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After his act of self-
castration, he became the
patron saint of
eunuchs.
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Ground Zero mosque
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Not at
Ground Zero. Not a
mosque. Not finished, as of 2023. Still capable of causing mountains of controversy.
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Haitian Vodou and sexual orientation
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Surely a troll, you say? No! A perfectly legitimate article!
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High-Heel Wedding Church
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Want to get married in a giant shoe in
Taiwan?
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Iglesia Maradoniana
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A religion with the Argentine footballer
Diego Maradona as its god.
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Incident (Scientology)
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Bubble Gum Incident, Obscene Dog Incident, Bodies in pawn, blah, blah...
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International date line in Judaism and
Jewish law in the polar regions
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Jewish law can get tricky when you travel to Hawaii... or go for a hike near the North Pole.
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Invisible Pink Unicorn
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Best buds with the
Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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Islamic toilet etiquette
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The large number of rules to be followed by
Muslims when relieving themselves.
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Jedi census phenomenon
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A phenomenon in which 390,000 British citizens listed their religion as "
Jedi Knight" on a 2001
census form, which would've made it the fourth-largest religion in
England and Wales.
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Jerusalem syndrome
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For some people, a visit there is just too much.
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Jewish pope Andreas
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A Jewish pope..?
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Johnson cult
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Was US President
Lyndon B. Johnson worshiped as a god in
Papua New Guinea?
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Kacchera
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Sikh underwear.
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Kapo (mythology)
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The Hawaiian fertility goddess, known for having a detachable vagina.
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List of UFO religions
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Our Father, which art in spaceship...
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Lou de Palingboer
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God sells eels?
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Jesús Malverde
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A popular saint among drug dealers in Mexico.
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Jim Bakker
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Televangelist founds
a Christian theme park so successful that it competes with Disneyland, gets arrested for fraud and loses his park, then promptly returns to televangelism upon release. Also admitted to never fully reading the Bible until his imprisonment, and to getting information on it from
Lyndon LaRouche.
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Matshishkapeu
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The "fart man" of
Innu mythology. Don't cross him or he'll make you constipated.
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Missionary Church of Kopimism
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To Ctrl+C is human; to Ctrl+V is divine.
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Mizab al-Rahma
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The holiest
rain gutter in Islam.
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Oomoto
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L. L. Zamenhof as
kami.
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Open-source religion
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And we're not talking about the
Church of Emacs either.
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Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption
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A legally recognized religion created by comedian
John Oliver for the sole purpose of exempting his show from taxes by way of the
Religious Tax Exemption.
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Prince Philip movement
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A religious movement on the island of
Tanna in
Vanuatu which holds that
Queen Elizabeth II's late husband,
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was a divine being.
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Pseudoskepticism
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The philosophical or scientific argument that tries to appear
skeptical, but really is trying to prove a position, as in "
I don’t see enough evidence that we landed on the moon".
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Raël
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A French journalist who started a
religion named after himself in the 1970s.
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Religion in Antarctica
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There's no continent on Earth without organized religion.
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Reincarnation Application
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Must be filed by all
living Buddha within the
People's Republic of China before they are allowed to
reincarnate.
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Religious pareidolia
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A tendency to see religious imagery in the textures of corn chips, cinnamon rolls, toast, clouds, etc.
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Saint Urho
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A fictitious saint of Finland created in Minnesota.
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Silver Sisterhood
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A bizarre neo-Victorian Irish spiritual movement with a sideline in creating
text adventure games, including
the first 18-rated game.
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Sin-eater
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An old belief that someone eating over a body would consume the sins of the deceased.
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St. Priapus Church
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A religion based on the worship of the
phallus.
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Space opera in Scientology
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L. Ron Hubbard's history of the universe, including alien Invader Forces, "little orange-colored bombs that would talk" and brainwashing episodes in "a railway carriage quite like a British railway coach with compartments".
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Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case
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How a British schoolteacher teaching overseas in Sudan got in trouble for letting her six-year-old students name a teddy bear "Muhammad".
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Taghairm
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A couple of uncomfortable methods of fortune telling.
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Tlazōlteōtl
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Aztec god of vice, purification, steam baths, lust, filth, and a patroness of
adulterers.
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Toilet god
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God living in the toilet.
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Turtles all the way down
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A myth about the nature of the universe, or perhaps a myth about a myth about the nature of the universe.
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United Nation of Islam
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Royall, Allah in Person claims to have spent the 1980s in a spaceship with angels who informed him that he was God and instructed him on how to govern the world. Public records say he was a truck driver.
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Universe People
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Specific cult in Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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The Urantia Book
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Over two thousand pages of anonymous, religious, subconscious ramblings on religion and "God" (whatever that means in the billion planets out there).
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Xenu
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An ancient interstellar dictator who unleashed a genocide which created
Christianity and
psychiatry and whose story is "calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it".
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Yakub (Nation of Islam)
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Mad scientist creates white race.
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