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Religion and spirituality
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Abeguwo | Remember when you were a kid, and joked that the rain was God peeing? Well... |
Asher yatzar | A Jewish blessing, read to praise the ability to excrete urine or faeces. |
Axinomancy | Foretelling the future by looking at an axe or hatchet. |
Ben Hana | 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). |
Braco (faith healer) | Meet the Gazer and be healed with a single glance. |
Cargo cult | 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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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. |
Coconut Religion | 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". |
Crepitus (mythology) | A Roman god of flatulence (allegedly) |
Ded Moroz | Like Santa, but Russian, and blue. |
Dhana Kumari Bajracharya | A woman did not walk for 60 years. |
Dinkoism | 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. |
Disconnection (Scientology) | The result of a poor signal with Scientology. |
Fluffy bunny | A controversial epithet in Wicca. |
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The basis of a satirical religion created to make fun of intelligent design. |
Gang Bing | After his act of self-castration, he became the patron saint of eunuchs. |
Ground Zero mosque | Not at Ground Zero. Not a mosque. Not finished, as of 2023. Still capable of causing mountains of controversy. |
Haitian Vodou and sexual orientation | Surely a troll, you say? No! A perfectly legitimate article! |
High-Heel Wedding Church | Want to get married in a giant shoe in Taiwan? |
Iglesia Maradoniana | A religion with the Argentine footballer Diego Maradona as its god. |
Incident (Scientology) | Bubble Gum Incident, Obscene Dog Incident, Bodies in pawn, blah, blah... |
International date line in Judaism and Jewish law in the polar regions | Jewish law can get tricky when you travel to Hawaii... or go for a hike near the North Pole. |
Invisible Pink Unicorn | Best buds with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. |
Islamic toilet etiquette | The large number of rules to be followed by Muslims when relieving themselves. |
Jedi census phenomenon | 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. |
Jerusalem syndrome | For some people, a visit there is just too much. |
Jewish pope Andreas | A Jewish pope..? |
Johnson cult | Was US President Lyndon B. Johnson worshiped as a god in Papua New Guinea? |
Kacchera | Sikh underwear. |
Kapo (mythology) | The Hawaiian fertility goddess, known for having a detachable vagina. |
List of UFO religions | Our Father, which art in spaceship... |
Lou de Palingboer | God sells eels? |
Jesús Malverde | A popular saint among drug dealers in Mexico. |
Jim Bakker | 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. |
Matshishkapeu | The "fart man" of Innu mythology. Don't cross him or he'll make you constipated. |
Missionary Church of Kopimism | To Ctrl+C is human; to Ctrl+V is divine. |
Mizab al-Rahma | The holiest rain gutter in Islam. |
Oomoto | L. L. Zamenhof as kami. |
Open-source religion | And we're not talking about the Church of Emacs either. |
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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. |
Prince Philip movement | 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. |
Pseudoskepticism | 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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A French journalist who started a religion named after himself in the 1970s. |
Religion in Antarctica | There's no continent on Earth without organized religion. |
Reincarnation Application | Must be filed by all living Buddha within the People's Republic of China before they are allowed to reincarnate. |
Religious pareidolia | A tendency to see religious imagery in the textures of corn chips, cinnamon rolls, toast, clouds, etc. |
Saint Urho | A fictitious saint of Finland created in Minnesota. |
Silver Sisterhood | A bizarre neo-Victorian Irish spiritual movement with a sideline in creating text adventure games, including the first 18-rated game. |
Sin-eater | An old belief that someone eating over a body would consume the sins of the deceased. |
St. Priapus Church | A religion based on the worship of the phallus. |
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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". |
Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case | How a British schoolteacher teaching overseas in Sudan got in trouble for letting her six-year-old students name a teddy bear "Muhammad". |
Taghairm | A couple of uncomfortable methods of fortune telling. |
Tlazōlteōtl | Aztec god of vice, purification, steam baths, lust, filth, and a patroness of adulterers. |
Toilet god | God living in the toilet. |
Turtles all the way down | A myth about the nature of the universe, or perhaps a myth about a myth about the nature of the universe. |
United Nation of Islam | 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. |
Universe People | Specific cult in Czech Republic and Slovakia. |
The Urantia Book | 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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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". |
Yakub (Nation of Islam) | Mad scientist creates white race. |
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Adam-God doctrine | A previous Christian belief that Adam was an alien who became God on his death. |
Alexamenos graffito | Possibly the oldest depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus was made by a boy mocking his Christian peer by depicting the Messiah with a donkey for a head. |
The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters | Started by Peter the Great, and consisted mostly of drinking and partying. |
As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly | An oldie but a goodie from the Bible. |
Banquet of Chestnuts | Enough to make even the most committed and diehard Roman Catholic agree that the church was in a pretty poor state at the time of the Reformation. |
Bible errata | A typesetter's complaint finds justification in Psalm 119. |
Carlo Acutis | The Catholic Patron Saint of the Internet. |
Cadaver Synod | In 897, Pope Stephen VI had the body of the former Pope that appointed him, Pope Formosus exhumed, dressed in papal vestments and then seated on a throne while he read charges against it and conducted a trial. |
Caganer | A traditional Catalan statue, similar to a garden gnome, that depicts a person defecating. Often included in Catalan nativity scenes or other Christmas decorations. |
Christmas in Nazi Germany | The Nazi Party reinvented Christmas by removing a certain baby boy raised in the Jewish faith. |
Church of the First Born of the Lamb of God | A fundamentalist Mormon group with a surprisingly large body count. |
Chute na santa incident | One of Brazil's most well known religious scandals. |
Clare of Assisi | Because she claimed to have seen and heard Mass on the walls when she was ill, she was made the patron saint of television in 1958, despite dying 674 years before television was invented. |
Criticism of Mother Teresa | Seriously? Yep, seriously. Her detractors include Christopher Hitchens, Tariq Ali and devout Hindus. |
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A 1930s Church of England clergyman, known as "The Prostitutes' Padre", who was defrocked and later died after being mauled by a toothless lion. |
Ejaculatory prayer | A short and impulsive prayer not—as the name may suggest—a prayer related to ejaculation. |
Ruben Enaje | A former construction worker from the Philippines who has been voluntarily crucified 33 times as of 2019. |
Feast of the Ass | No... this isn't about that ass. It's an old tradition where a girl and a child on a donkey go to church together, with the donkey sitting beside the altar during the sermon. |
Flirty Fishing | Sharing the Gospel through prostitution. |
Freedomites | A Canadian religious cult that bombed and set fire to public buildings. All while nude. |
Gambling on papal elections | How much you wanna bet he's going to be Catholic? |
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A former Liberian warlord who found Christ and now preaches to the communities he committed atrocities against would be pretty odd even if he weren't called... that. |
Great Disappointment | Hundreds of people were convinced the world would end on a very specific date. Turns out they were wrong. Ahem. |
Hell house | A type of Christian horror house to make children more pious. |
Holy Prepuce | One of several relics purported to be associated with Jesus. Also known as The Holy Foreskin. (See also Circumcision of Jesus.) |
Jesus H. Christ | Does it stand for Henry? |
Kolob | Which star does God live on? |
List of people claimed to be Jesus | Christ has risen...again...and again. |
Mental health of Jesus | Jesus? Are you okay? |
Miracle of the Sun | 70,000 people in Portugal gather to witness a miracle and are treated to an inexplicable solar event. |
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God | Suicide cult or mass murder? You decide. |
Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible | The Bible refers to lost books – even pagan ones – much more than you'd think. |
Omphalos hypothesis | The answer to all the evidence against creationism – maybe the Earth was created to look like it was billions of years old! |
Pope John numbering | There have been 21 legitimate Popes John, but there have been two known as John XXIII. |
Pope Joan | Medieval documents cite the existence of a female pope – proof of a Vatican cover up or a blasphemous slur? |
Pope Michael | Elected Pope in 1990 (by six people, including his parents) as a conclavist opponent to the current Pope, while not even an ordained priest. |
Pornocracy | A near-60-year period, also known as Saeculum obscurum or the "Rule of the Harlots", where the Popes were controlled by the women of a corrupt noble family. |
Rumspringa | Amish Gone Wild. |
Saint Guinefort | A Saint who was also a dog. Not to be confused with this Saint, who was also a dog. Sort of. |
Skoptsy | "Holy" emasculation, started by a man who claimed to be a deceased emperor. |
St. James-Bond Church | No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and saviour! |
Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera | Was Jesus' father buried in Germany? |
Unfulfilled Christian religious predictions | Doomsdays that didn't. |
Wicked Bible | A 1631 reprint of the King James Bible, which rendered commandment number 7 as "Thou shalt commit adultery". |
Zipporah at the inn | God apparently tries (and fails) to kill Moses. |
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