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01-16-2009 , 06:20 AM

JAD

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 135

Any other fans out there? Does anyone know of any other non-serious type religions? We got Jedis and Satanist represented in this forum it appears already

For those not in the know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius

http://www.subgenius.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/

/fnord

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01-19-2009 , 12:58 AM

Darkens1

journeyman

Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 301

Church of the flying spaghetti monster

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01-19-2009 , 03:25 AM

46:1

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,406

meh I was gonna do a thread today, where everybody who read it was automagically transformed into a discordian pope. With 5 links u didn't beat me to it, but you took the fun of an introductory post away.

All hail discordia!

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01-19-2009 , 07:32 AM

46:1

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,406

Also too bad you are quick to dismiss both the Subgenius and Discordianism as non-serious. To me it's not an elaborate joke disguised as a religion, but a religion disguised as a joke.

Eris might even go back to Lillith, giving weight to the religion as one of revering chaos and disruption.

Is it a joke that discordianists are too scared to pray to their diety in fear that She might really act on it?

Like Bob used to say: Not everything is what is seems, but everything is what it seems.

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01-19-2009 , 11:30 AM

devilset666

grinder

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 661

all religions must be given equal standing as they all rely on the same basic concept, FAITH. The Church of the FSM is a lot more appealing to me than Christianity and I will not stand for it be referred to as non-serious unless the same accord is given to followers of the half man/half god mythic pacifist they call Jesus.

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01-20-2009 , 02:15 AM

JAD

centurion

Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 135

True, maybe I should have changed non-serious to alternative. As a fan of all of the above my intent was to encourage discussion of less main stream religions not to belittle them.

/fnord

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01-22-2009 , 12:35 PM

PVR

journeyman

Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 204

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Originally Posted by 46:1

To me discordianism's more a serious anti-religion disguised as a religion disguised as a joke

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