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Parody Religion
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A made-up religion that exists to parody some specific existing religion, a group of religions and religious beliefs, organized religion in general, or just any kind of religious belief. It often takes the form of a Cargo Cult, a God Guise, some bizarre Crystal Dragon Jesus cult, or a pastiche of a Real Life religion with Serial Numbers Filed Off. For extra laughs, a Churchgoing Villain may follow this faith devoutly, or someone who's Hiding Behind Religion may use it as a smokescreen, perhaps also invoking Against My Religion to weasel out of some unpleasant obligation. It can be a risky move sometimes, since, religious freedom being what it is, people are generally allowed to believe in whatever they want. At times, a specific belief just might dovetail with a parody. See also Path of Inspiration, which is this with evil instead of funny; Corrupt Church, which is against organized religion; and Church of Happyology, which is a subtrope that parodies a very specific religion. See also: Anvilicious, Religion Is Wrong; the secular version is the Brotherhood of Funny Hats. An Animal Religion or a Robot Religion can parody an actual religion. Contrast Saintly Church, Religion Is Right. If the parody is used to actually deceive people—which, considering Poe's Law, is far from impossible—it becomes a Scam Religion. |
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Xavism in Sengoku Basara is a rather overt parody of the Catholic Church with elements of Church of Happyology; its leader is a delusional (but well-meaning) Love Freak who believes in the power of blowing the crap out of someone to convert them, all its adherents get bizarre baptismal names, and the "commandments" are all Broken Aesop versions of Christian dogma. | |
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The Simpsons are members of The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism, which split from the Catholics in 1573 over the right to go to church with wet hair, which the Presbylutherans have since abolished. | |
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The Church of the Latter-Day Dude, or Dudeism. However, the founders actually take it quite seriously. | |
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The ClickHole Clickventure "Join this Cult!" begins with an invitation to join the Sentinels Of Paradise, who worship a fellow known as Mischief Man, who created the world and your guts but not your bones. It is very Surreal Humor. | |
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Miracle Workers: In "Meet the Noonans" the wagon party, heading west on the Oregon Trail, meets...the Noonans, a religious group also on the trail west. The Noonans are an obvious Bland-Name Product version of the LDS Church aka Mormons, what with their leader Jedediah's claims to talk directly to God, the identical dress of male and female members (and particularly the women with their neck-to-ankle dresses and upswept hair), and specifically that they're headed west in the 1840s (the real Mormons migrated to Utah in 1846). | |
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A tie-in book to the Mr. Bean series stated that Mr Bean had at one point followed a religion based around the "God of Lemonade." | |
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BioShock Infinite: Comstock's religion is based of Christianity, but it revolves around American Exceptionalism with the Founding Fathers treated as saints, and Comstock making himself the Prophet of Columbia. And he has Elizabeth as his "Lamb" (of God) and successor of the title of Prophet, the latter of which she becomes in a Bad Future. | |
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The Epsilon Program seen in Grand Theft Auto is an equally less-than-subtle take on the Scientologist cult. | |
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The Corn God in Scenes from a Multiverse. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic features the Church of the Heavenly Proton Pack, a religion of diehard Ghostbusters fans. It is later revealed there are other sects including an orthodox one (which doesn't believe in the canonicity of Ghostbusters II) and Ghostbusters of Latter Day Saints (which is for fans of Filmation's Ghostbusters series). | |
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Hubology in Fallout 2 is a very unsubtle parody of Scientology. | |
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The movie Bowfinger features a cult called Mindhead, which parodies Scientology. | |
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You Can Be a Cyborg When You're Older by Richard Roberts: The Enchanted seem to be a religion entirely devoted around biologically modifying yourself to live like World of Warcraft characters. | |
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie featured a school headmaster who, upset with the religious intolerance between his pupils, had forced them to follow a new religion of his own invention, taken by combining many different religions, and entitled "Lip-whip-whip-whip-whip". | |
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In Transhuman Space, Adam Stein, the unofficial leader of a group of transhumanists who believed in The Singularity, despite the growing evidence it wasn't going to happen, responded to 2070s criticism that "singularitanism" was a cult by sarcastically applying to register it as a religion. He was very surprised when his application was accepted, and even more surprised when he started getting new followers who seemed to take the religious aspects seriously. As of 2100, half of the Singularitists are true believers, and Stein is still trying to explain to them that it was a joke. | |
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Futurama has the recurring Robotology, Robot Judaism and The First Amalgamated Church, as well as occasionally mentioned Oprahism, Church of Trek, et cetera. | |
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In an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver exposing shady televangelists who allegedly exploit US tax laws, John Oliver revealed that he had started his own satirical religion, "Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption," for the express sole purpose of getting people to send him money.note The money was then donated to an actual charity. The kicker: Oliver's parody religion is totally legal under current IRS tax code, and John Oliver is now a legitimate 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. At the end he closed the "church" due to some people sending him sperm. But up to that point, he never broke any law. | |
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In Koan of the Day, the character of the guru often parodies religion. | |
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The Monty Python's Flying Circus "Crackpot Religions" sketch. | |
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The Oversaturated World has the Church Of The Divine Bacon Horse, which is essentially a parody of itself. The COTDBH is dedicated to worshipping Sunset (or more specifically her unicorn aspect) in the most ridiculous, melodramatic way possible, thus simultaneously allowing the members to express their genuine faith and reverence, allowing Sunset to dismiss them as a bunch of loons and continue to pretend that she's not actually a goddess, and acknowledging how utterly ridiculous the whole situation is. | |
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In South Park, Dawkins mentions the Flying Spaghetti Monster while talking to Mrs. Garrison during a lunch in the episode Go God Go. | |
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Discordianism has been described as a "religion masquerading as a joke" or a "joke masquerading as a religion." Both are correct. | |
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That rabbit cult from Looking for Group. Subverted, because there is a good reason for worship. | |
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A huge amount of those from Transmetropolitan. According to Spider, new cults pop there every hour, therefore, any religious belief does not make any sense. | |
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Chutengodianism in Godless starts as a joke by a few teenagers, but takes on a life of its own (complete with its own heretics and fundamentalists.) In the end, the narrator is the only one left who still follows it—he doesn't really believe in it, but he wishes he did. | |
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