What's the weirdest religion you know about?

displacedtexan

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Sat Nov-20-04 04:55 PM
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What's the weirdest religion you know about?

Every Sunday, I post "Today's Sermon" in my blog (click under the burning bush and search the site for Today's Sermon), and I showcase the weirdest religion I can find by googling "weird religions" or "funny religions."

The last truly hilarious "religion" I found was:

The First Church of
Jesus Christ, Elvis

http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/sacred_heart_elvis.html

If you have any great links to weird world religions, please post them.

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Sabriel

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Sat Nov-20-04 05:03 PM
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1. You can't beat Heaven's Gate

http://web2.airmail.net/lhbc/heaven1.html

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immoderate

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Sat Nov-20-04 11:59 PM
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2. Try the Raelians.

http://www.rael.org/english/index.html

Weird doesn't even do it.

--IMM

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Cleita

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Wed Nov-24-04 04:50 PM
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7. You beat me to it.

They have got to be the oddest. There was also one that I think fell apart,the Unarians, where the believers claim to have come from outer space. They all dressed up in outfits reminiscent of the old Flash Gordon serials and b-movie space operas of fifty years ago.

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Is It Fascism Yet

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Sun Nov-21-04 10:06 PM
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3. Christianity, of course.

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SlackJawedYokel

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Sun Nov-21-04 10:47 PM
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4. All of them.

What is more bizarre than believing in something that is a human-made construct and doesn't exist?

Cletus

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Caution

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Wed Nov-24-04 01:21 PM
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5. Pretty close tie between the Raelians and the Scientologists

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robbedvoter

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Wed Nov-24-04 01:33 PM
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6. There's one where they eat their prophet and drink his blood

What did they call that again? Ah, the ruling religion, the True faith.

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YankeyMCC

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Wed Nov-24-04 07:25 PM
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8. Hey...

they just want to Grok thier profit...er I mean prophet. :)

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leftofthedial

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Sat Nov-27-04 09:20 PM
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9. Christianity is hard to top

it has ritualized cannibalism

a mono-deity with mulitple personality disorder

it is a suicide cult

it has adopted bizaare rituals and celebrations from countless pagan cultures

it has sexual hangups that have fueled amazing sex practices and have commoditized sex in its culture

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