List of fictional religions

For religions which contributed to the Orange Catholic Bible, see List of religions in the Orange Catholic Bible.

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A

• Adanos – Gothic (video game), god of balance, and lord of water and ice.
• Aedonism, a Christianity-like religion in the book series Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
• Arkvoodlism – Destroy All Humans
• Armadylianism (Runescape's Purity-sided religion)
• Alvinism – "Feast of Alvis" episode of Sealab 2021
• Amarrian religion – EVE Online, the monotheistic faith of the Amarr Empire and the basis of its society.
• Appliantology – Frank Zappa album Joe's Garage
• Armaghan Satanism – Empire of Man
• Askani – Marvel Comics, not an actual religion, but more a philosophy of life.
• Avantism – Harvest of Stars novels by
• Ayatollah House Cookies – mentioned in Ellis Weiner's parody novel National Lampoon's Doon

B

• The Babarambaba Cult – worshippers of Mother Nature, personified in a head of lettuce named Ralph — "Rerun Sees the Light" episode of What's Happening!!
• Bajoran religion (aka The Way of the Prophets) – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Bandosianism (Runescape's War religion)
• Banjoism (Elan's religion in Order of the Stick)
• Beliar – Gothic (video game), god of darkness, deaht and chaos and lord of lighning and earth.
• Bene Gesserit – Dune series, not an actual religion but an order that behaves very much like a religion
• Benjamin Linus Church – (Parody religion about Lost TV series' Benjamin Linus).
• Bilphism – The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Blainetology – "Super Best Friends" episode of South Park
• Bokononism – Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Boni Maroni – National Lampoon's Doon (parody of Dune's Bene Gesserit)
• Brogmoidism – Zork
• Brotherhood of Nod – Command & Conquer
• Buddislam – Dune series
• Burns Religion – The Simpsons episode, "The Joy of Sect"

C

• Cainite Heresy – Vampire: The Dark Ages
• Carpathianism – Left Behind series
• Chantry – From Dragon Age: Origins; Dragon Age: Origins Awakening; Dragon Age II
• Chaos (Warhammer) – Warhammer,Warhammer 40,000
• Chemicalology – Rex the Runt
• Children of Atom – Fallout 3
• Children of the Cathedral – Fallout
• Children of the Son – "Bread and Circuses" episode of Star Trek: The Original Series
• Children of the Mind of Christ – The Enderverse of Orson Scott Card
• Chrislam – The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
• Church of All Worlds – Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (inspired a non-fictional religious group of the same name)
• Church of American Secular Humanism (C.A.S.H.) – The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa
• Church of Appropriate Humility – CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
• The Church of Aram – The Elder Gods
• Church of Artificial Intelligence – Otherworld
• Church of Altana – Final Fantasy XI
• The Church of Awes – The Redemption of Althalus
• Church of the Atheists – Metalocalypse
• Church of Atom – Fallout 3 – believe that atom bombs are god and that detonation is holy
• Church of Cod – Myrtle Beach, SC – an organization started in South Carolina that pays tribute to Codius who they say, died on the hook for our mortal sins.
• Church of the Final Atonement aka Church of the Shrike – Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons
• Church of The Fonz – Family Guy
• The Church of Gaming – Ctrl+Alt+Del by Tim Buckley^{[citation needed]}
• The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent – The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Church of the God Who Makes No Difference – Permutation City by Greg Egan
• Church of the New Epoch – Syndicate Wars
• The Church of Gort – Church for the worship of androids, cyborgs and A.I.'s in Wildstorm comics
• Church of Heuristic Information Processing (C.H.I.P.) – a computer religion founded by Saint $ilicon in The Binary Bible of Saint Silicon by Jeffrey Armstrong
• Church of Jesus Christ the Kidnapped – Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
• Church of Martel – Tales of Symphonia
• Church of the New Revelation (Fosterite) – Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
• Church of Practicology: Defined as the religion founded by the alien king living inside Stan Lee on 30 Rock, a parody of Scientology
• The Church of Ralph – Night Court
• Church of the Savior Emperor – Warhammer 40,000, also known as the Imperial Cult.
• Church of Scientific Spiritualism – The Profit, a parody of the Church of Scientology
• Church of the Second Chance – Riverworld
• Church of the Second Coming of the Great Prophet Zarquon – The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
• Church of Trek – Futurama (Religion in Futurama)
• Church of What's Happening Now! – Flip Wilson routine
• Church of the Universe – a fictional religion in the film Mind Polish, which clearly mocks Scientology and is shot near and on their premises.
• Church Without Christ – Wise Blood (novel) by Flannery O'Connor
• Chutengodianism – Godless by Pete Hautman
• Cola Cult – Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
• Colonial polytheistic religion – Battlestar Galactica
• Contolism – From the Gundam universe, a religion that preaches humanity's destiny is to migrate from Earth into space.
• Crackpot Religions Ltd – bogus religion in a Monty Python sketch.
• Creedish Death Cult, Chuck Palahniuk's Novel—Survivor
• Cthulhu Cults
• Cult of Demnos – a cult in the Doctor Who story The Masque of Mandragora.
• Cult of Gaea – The religion of the CHAOS alignment in the Megami Tensei series.
• Cult of Rammenoth – A religion in the comicbook series Young Lovecraft (by José Oliver and Bart Torres), who worships an Elder God like the ones that H.P. Lovecraft created.
• Cult of Sigmar – The Empire's primary religion in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy world.
• Cult of Sirius – A cult believing the alien invaders are in fact godly messengers coming to punish mankind for their sinful behavior in X-COM Interceptor and X-Com Apocalypse
• The Covenant Religion, also known as "The Great Journey" – Halo
• Cult Mechanicus – Warhammer 40,000
• Cybertao – from the Century Next Door series by John Barnes
• Cylon monotheistic religion – Battlestar Galactica
• Church of Gingers – by a random ginger kid

D

• D'ni Religion – as seen in the Myst series.
• Duism – From the science-fiction stories of Stanislaw Lem.
• Daedra Worship – The Elder Scrolls series
• Dark Day Fatalism – "Small Minded Giants" by Oisín McGann.
• Divine Order of His Shadow – Lexx TV series
• Dutyism – Fictional sect followed by players of the FPS Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 created by gameplay director AnconaJONES.
• Dave`s cult – Is in Postal 2 and postal 3 which loosely base of Branch Davidians.

E

• Earthseed – Parable of the Sower and its sequel, Parable of the Talents, see Octavia Butler
• Einhasad – Lineage II
• Elder God – Legacy of Kain series
• Elune – Warcraft Universe
• Elvii- collective term for Elvis Presley worshippers who view him as a divine avatar in Jack Womack's Dryco Quartet, most notably in Elvissey
• Enigma Babylon One World Faith – Left Behind series
• The Epsilon Program – Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas –
• Esoteric Order of Dagon – Cthulhu Mythos
• Eternal Fire – A belief that is being promoted by Grandmaster Jacques de Aldersburg and his Order of the Flaming Rose. The Witcher (video game)
• Ethos – Xenogears
• Evans Church – Breath of Fire II
• Everettism – A belief in which celebrates the birth of the ruler of the new world order – "The Greenspun Chronicles"
• Eternal Alchemy – Guild Wars

F

• FARGO – Moon.
• Feeders of Vaal – "The Apple" episode of Star Trek: The Original Series
• Festivus – Seinfeld
• First Amalgamated Church – Futurama (Religion in Futurama)
• The First Church of the Flaming Sword Las Vegas  – Waiting for God
• Fosterites – Stranger in a Strange Land
• Foundationism – Babylon 5
• First Church of the Fonz – "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz" episode of Family Guy
• First Church of the Gooey Death and Discount House of Worship – Imus in the Morning radio show
• First Church of LeChuck, Orthodox – Escape From Monkey Island computer game
• First House of Polyester Worship and Horizontal Throbbing Teenage Desire Our Lady of the White Go-Go Boot Lord of the 40-Watt Undulating Bubbling Lava Lamp Apocalyptic No Pizza Take-out After 12 Achey-Breaky Love Tabernacle in Nashville, Tenn. -- Church membership claimed by jazz-blues pianist/parodist Rev. Billy C. Wirtz
• Fishers of Men (Cult) – Leaving Fishers by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Forceism – Star Wars
• Fordism – Brave New World
• FOH, Friends Of Humanity (Marvel Comics and TV shows)
• Frisbeetarianism – "The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there." (George Carlin)
• Furude Shrine – from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. A Shinto style folk religion that worships Oyashiro-sama, a deity who conciliate humans and demons.

G

• Galactophasic Determinism – The religion of the Orange Catholic Bible in the Dune series
• Global Standard Deity – Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde
• Goa'uld religion – Most Goa'uld pose as gods to control slave armies. "Goa'uld" means "God" in the Goa'uld language from the television series Stargate SG-1.
• Guthixianism (Runescape's Balance-sided religion)
• Great Pumpkin- Peanuts
• Gozer Worshippers- Ghostbusters mentioned only.

H

• Happy-Happyism – from the video game EarthBound
• Hammerites (The Order of the Hammer) – from the Thief (series) of computer games
• Handdara – A religion loosely resembling Hindu, Taoist and Zen beliefs featured in The Left Hand of Darkness
• Haruhiism – worship of the title character from the series "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" in which some characters believe that she is a god
• Haydn Sikhs – mentioned in National Lampoon's Doon
• Hitlerism founded and created by Eric Cartman (South Park)
• Holy Light – Warcraft Universe
• Hubology – from the video game Fallout 2
• Hylian Religion, which worships the three Goddesses who created the world of Hyrule – in the Legend of Zelda video game series

I

• IBM – from the "Deities" episode of the Max Headroom TV series
• The Imperial Creed – Also called the Imperial CultWarhammer 40,000
• Ishbalan – Fullmetal Alchemist
• Innos – Gothic (video game)

J

• Jediism – Star Wars
• Jemima's Witness – Mentioned in an episode of Family Guy and a religious movement started by a few Webster Groves, MO high school students.
• Jenova's Witness – in the webcomic VG Cats (a pun on Jehovah's Witnesses and Jenova from the Final Fantasy VII)
• Jesuit Jews for Jesus – the Purim sketch, Saturday Night Live
• Jiu-Jitsus for Jesus – mentioned in National Lampoon's Doon
• Junkism, founded by Fred Sanford in Sanford and Son as a means for paying no taxes.
• Jashinism, not a fake religion although some view as such. The version created for naruto was fake however, this religion is very old and originated in Japan.

K

• Kelx – Kelx is a religion that appears in Neal Stephenson's Anathem. The followers of Kelx believe that the whole world is in the mind of a man condemned to die. The "Condemned Man" is on trial in the "Magistrate's" court for the murder of the "Innocent" and her family. The Condemned Man argues that whole worlds can be created by any soul and therefore no one should be put to death. Each day the Condemned Man tells a story from the world in his mind, and the Magistrate judges the people in that story. The Condemned Man's life and therefore the very existence of the world hang on the Magistrate's judgment of each story.
• Khala – StarCraft
• Kinda – Doctor Who
• Klingon religion – Star Trek
• Konja Kyūsei Subarakikō – Key the Metal Idol
• Missionary Church of Kopimism – The Missionary Church of Kopimism is a congregation of file sharers who claim that copying information is a sacred virtue. The Church, based in Sweden, has been officially recognized by the Swedish Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency ("kammarkollegiet") as a religious community.

L

• Lapine Theism – Original Lapine belief in one sun god, Frith, and rabbit prophet. Includes other minor deities/angels including Prince Rainbow who orders the world on behalf of Frith but is neither omnipotent nor infallible (and may represent humanity as seen by rabbits), and the Black Rabbit of Inlé (Inlé-Rah) who is the personification of Death. Also includes supposedly mortal folk heroes such as El-ahrairah (who may have taken up a quasi-religious role after death). – Watership Down
• Lapine Christianity – Parody religion – Cross between Reform Christianity and Lapine Theism
• The Lords of Kobol – While the official name of the religion is not known, the religion featured in Battlestar Galactica follows a belief in these beings and religious practices surrounding them.
• Los Illuminado – Resident Evil 4

M

• McMahonism
• Mangoïsm – Polytheistic religion with the major deity being a personified Mango.
• Manifold – One of two human religions in Stan Nicholls' Orcs series.
• Mechanists (Order of the Gear) – an offshoot of the Hammerites (see above) from the second in the Thief (series) of computer games
• Mechanoid religion – Red Dwarf, advocates life after deactivation in Silicon Heaven
• Mercerism – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• MindHead – Steve Martin movie Bowfinger
• Movementarianism – "The Joy of Sect" episode of The Simpsons
• Mycogenian Religion – "Prelude to Foundation" by Isaac Asimov

N

• The Necromonger Way – The Chronicles of Riddick
• NeoAquarian Temple – Snow Crash
• New Yevon – Final Fantasy X-2 (More of a political party than an actual religion)
• Nine Divines – The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Nisanism – Xenogears
• Nugganism – Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Neptuanism – SpongeBob SquarePants

O

• Omega House (Religion) – King of the Hill
• Omnianism – Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Oprahism – Futurama (Religion in Futurama)
• The Order – A world religion that combined all of the major religions is a concept in the popular game Deus Ex: Invisible War
• The Order – An amalgam of pagan religion and Gnostic Christianity followed mainly by extremists in the Silent Hill video game series.
• The Order of Messiah – The religion of the LAW alignment in the Megami Tensei series.
• The Order of the Serpentine – a brotherhood created to help market Axe deodorants
• Origin – The religion of the Ori race in the television series Stargate SG-1.
• Order of Aurelius – an elite sect of vampires in the Buffyverse.
• Ormus – Xenosaga
• Order of Wen the Eternally Surprised – Discworld

P

• Panarii – the main religion in the computer game Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
• Perfectly Frank Church of Christ of the Saturday Saints – mentioned in National Lampoon's Doon
• Pinkieism – worshipping for the character Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, which bronies believe she is a goddess
• Potatoism – a short-lived religion in Dinosaurs dedicated to the worship of the Great Potato
• Praysbyterian – from Drake and Josh a parody of the Presbyterian Church.
• Prismatology – Sam & Max: Season One
• Puss'n Buddhists – mentioned in National Lampoon's Doon
• Penis – the main religion in the adult game, Red Light Sex-House.

Q

• Quantum Presbyterian – Kang's and Kodos' religion in The Simpsons
• Quintarianism – The Curse of Chalion and sequels by Lois McMaster Bujold

R

• Raifuku Shrine – from Kamichu!. A syncretism of Shinto and the original (fictional) folk religion. The latter worships a living god Yurie Hitotsubashi, a protagonist of the anime. Called Yashima Shrine in the original manga.
• Rao (comics) worship- Superman mythos. Rao refers to the red sun that Krypton orbited before its destruction, and a related sun god deity.
• Rescenism (The Sacred Rhythm) – Orion's Arm
• Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates (Cult of Asherah) – Snow Crash
• Robotology – Futurama (Religion in Futurama)

S

• Saradominism (Runescape's Good-sided religion)
• Scientific People – The Stars My Destination
• Scientism (Foundation) – the bogus religion established by Salvor Hardin in Isaac Asimov's Foundation.
• Scratch – Cowboy Bebop – a cult based roughly on Heaven's Gate
• Second Islam – Dune series
• Secret Israel – Dune series
• Selfosophy – "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense" episode of Millennium.
• Seventh Day Advent Hoppists – Arnold Rimmer's parents' religion due to a typing error in their Bible Red Dwarf
• Sith – Star Wars
• Snake Dance – Doctor Who
• Snafuda – readers of snafu-comics
• Society of the Whole, aka the Drumadian religion – Great Tree of Avalon
• Soldiers of the One – radical monotheistic group usually associated with terrorism on the planet "Caprica"
• Sorrows – a tribe whose beliefs are based on Christianity – Fallout: New Vegas
• Space Catholicism – Futurama (Religion in Futurama)
• Speaker for the Dead – Based on the fictional books The Hive Queen and The Hegemon written by Andrew "Ender" Wiggin a.k.a. The Speaker for the Dead, from The Enderverse by Orson Scott Card (Not officially a religion, it is known as a Humanist movement)
• Starclanism-religion from the warrior cats series
• Starry Wisdom – H. P. Lovecraft's short story The Haunter of the Dark
• Starveling Cult – The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks.
• Six Human Gods – Guild Wars
• Spirits of the Wild – Guild Wars
• Syrinx – religion mentioned in the song "2112" by Rush.

T

• Teleological Pantheism – The Starrigger series by John DeChancie
• Third Islam – Dune series
• The Great Chain – Belief in self-interest and free markets that unite the people. This is more of a philosophy than a religion, as it is a belief promoted by Andrew Ryan, who is a staunch atheist. – Bioshock
• The Great Green Arklseizure – A religion from the TV series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)" by Douglas Adams
• The Rapture Family – Everyone owes each other a sense of unity and brotherhood. This is the most recent cult to have appeared in Rapture, having been created and promoted by Sofia Lamb and Simon Wales. – Bioshock 2
• The Saturnine Cult – Elements of paganism and nature worship. According to Julie Langford, worshipers of this cult drink human blood as well as cups full of Plasmids (most likely raw ADAM). They also believe they have been "touched" by the ancient gods. – Bioshock
• The Truth – A religion based on the belief that all apparent reality is actually a computer simulation – The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks.
• Tribunal Temple – Cult of the three man-gods known as Vivec, Almalexia and Sotha Sil – The Elder Scrolls series.
• Trigonate Church – A worship of three principle gods, and several minor ones, in Tad Williams' Shadowmarch series.
• Tritheism – alluded to but not described in "Prelude to Foundation" by Isaac Asimov
• The Light – Main religion of the Dwarves, Draenei and Humans in World of Warcraft.

U

• Universal Church of Truth – Marvel Comics – Created by "The Magus", an evil version of Adam Warlock.
• Unity – One of two human religions in Stan Nicholls' Orcs series.
• Unitology – Dead Space (video game) – Religion with important significance to the plot and back story of the game, shares strong similarities to Scientology.

V

• Vulcan religion – Star Trek
• Vodarac – Eureka Seven
• vodkaism – A recent board religion founded by Hazazel – [1]
• The Vu-Age Church – from the "Deities" episode of the Max Headroom TV series
• Verducianism – Secret Santa (30 Rock)

W

• The Warrior Monks of Phum – Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné novels
• Wayism – Andromeda
• The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism – the denomination of Reverend Lovejoy in The Simpsons

Y

• Yen Buddhism – Discworld. Yen Buddhists believe that money poisons the soul, so they collect as much as possible, to protect others from it. Basically a play on Zen/Yen.
• Yevonism – Final Fantasy X
• Yomeshta – the religion of the Orgota people in The Left Hand of Darkness who follow the teachings of a messianic figure called Yomesh
• Young Men's Reformed Cultists of the Ichor God Bel-Shamaroth Association-religious organisation in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Young Moneyism- worshipers of young money

Z

• Zakarum – Religion based on Diablo universe
• Zamorakianism (Runescape Chaos-sided religion)
• Zarosianism (Runescape ancient chaos-sided religion which made a return in December 2009)
• Zen Gnosticism – Hyperion series
• Zevonism – A religion based on the teachings (songs) of Warren Zevon. Each of his songs contains a message or teaching that everyone can use in their lives. Their ritual greeting is "Peace of the Warren be upon you." The line they use while proselytizing is "Warren Zevon Died for your Sins." The church is currently centered in the "First Orthodox Church of the Excitable Boy."
• Zenshia – Legends of Dune series
• Zensufi – Dune series
• Zensunni – Dune series
• Zumanism – "Holy Sheep" episode of Andy Richter Controls the Universe

See also

• Parody religion
• List of fictional clergy and religious figures
• List of fictional deities
• List of fictional holidays

External links

• Jemima's Witnesses Homepage Jemima's Witnesses
• Information about Arceus [2]