Weird religions you've heard of

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#1 tiopuit
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The flying spaghetti monsters will come down from the heavens

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#2 Animatronic64
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That's not a religion, is it ?

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#3 tiopuit
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why yes sir it is

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who needs religion, I am a God
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#5 GHlegend77
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Jedi. Because it had to come up sometime.
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#6 foxhound_fox
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That's a parody religion, a satirical play on the idea of monotheism and faith in the unknown.

The only "weird" religion that I have encountered over my studies would probably be Indian Tantrism. If you go beyond what we think we "know" about it here in the West, you'll find some especially weird stuff.

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#7 Animatronic64
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who needs religion, I am a Godmichael_1234576
If you are a God, can you make all bad things go away?
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#8 deactivated-5a79221380856
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I would say that the religion of Christian Science is very strange. Their weirdest belief is the belief that everything is supernatural and that there is nothing that is natural.
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Heaven's Gate although they aren't around no more...
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#11 Teenaged
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Tolkienism.

Its not really weird but I have been weirded out that it exists.

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#12 surrealnumber5
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atheist as they have no proof. second would be any religious zealot
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atheist as they have no proof. second would be any religious zealotsurrealnumber5
1) Atheism is not a religion

2) While theists do have proof?

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#14 The_AI
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The Shakers, followed closely by Scientology.

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#15 Darth-Caedus
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Christianty...and, well, basically any religion ever. (And Atheism, as well) Anyone who would claim to know the one and only truth of the universe is EXCEEDINGLY arrogant, or EXCEEDINGLY foolish, me thinks. (No offense to...well...anyone, just my thoughts on it)
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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]atheist as they have no proof. second would be any religious zealotTeenaged

1) Atheism is not a religion

2) While theists do have proof?

it is a belief system so it is a religion, and i never said they did.
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#17 Palantas
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Jedi. Because it had to come up sometime.GHlegend77

A long time ago, a friend of mine put "Jedi" on his dog tags as his religion, which I thought was hysterical. Later I found out, holy ****, it was a real religion!

atheist as they have no proof.surrealnumber5

Don't all religions lack proof, being based on faith?

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#18 deactivated-5a79221380856
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atheist as they have no proof. second would be any religious zealotsurrealnumber5
:o Unfortunately for you, atheism is not a religion, and its evidence is the argument from poor design, argument from evil, argument from free will, etc. If you think atheism is ridiculous because it has no proof, then you should give equal treatment to all religions, because not one of them has proof! :)
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[QUOTE="GHlegend77"]Jedi. Because it had to come up sometime.Palantas

A long time ago, a friend of mine put "Jedi" on his dog tags as his religion, which I thought was hysterical. Later I found out, holy ****, it was a real religion!

atheist as they have no proof.surrealnumber5

Don't all religions lack proof, being based on faith?

read on before you quote me
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[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]atheist as they have no proof. second would be any religious zealotsurrealnumber5

1) Atheism is not a religion

2) While theists do have proof?

it is a belief system so it is a religion, and i never said they did.

So every set of beliefs constitutes a religion?

Well that means most political ideologies, worldviews and philosophical opinions.

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#21 surrealnumber5
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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]atheist as they have no proof. second would be any religious zealotGenetic_Code
:o Unfortunately for you, atheism is not a religion, and its evidence is the argument from poor design, argument from evil, argument from free will, etc. If you think atheism is ridiculous because it has no proof, then you should give equal treatment to all religions, because not one of them has proof! :)

as i do....
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#22 Animatronic64
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atheist as they have no proof. second would be any religious zealotsurrealnumber5
The "proof" of atheism is logic, the proof of Christianity is what appears to be a work of fiction. By the way, atheism isn't a religion, and it really has nothing to do with proof. Presumably,most are atheist on the basis of no empirical evidence to support the existence of deities.

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#23 surrealnumber5
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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"][QUOTE="Teenaged"]1) Atheism is not a religion

2) While theists do have proof?

Teenaged

it is a belief system so it is a religion, and i never said they did.

So every set of beliefs constitutes a religion?

Well that means most political ideologies, worldviews and philosophical opinions.

yep
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#24 Teenaged
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[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] it is a belief system so it is a religion, and i never said they did. surrealnumber5

So every set of beliefs constitutes a religion?

Well that means most political ideologies, worldviews and philosophical opinions.

yep

So communism, socialism, anarchy, democracy etc are all religions, right?

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#25 deactivated-5a79221380856
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[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]atheist as they have no proof. second would be any religious zealotsurrealnumber5

1) Atheism is not a religion

2) While theists do have proof?

it is a belief system so it is a religion, and i never said they did.

It is a belief, not a "system" where people are taught to take you in and indoctrinate you. It's no more a religion than monotheism, polytheism, pantheism, or any other other various theism. You're a hypocrite. If you want to criticize atheism because it has no proof, then you should equally criticize theism because as you just implied, you clearly believe it doesn't have proof either.
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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]atheist as they have no proof. second would be any religious zealotAnimatronic64

The "proof" of atheism is logic, the proof of Christianity is what appears to be a work of fiction. By the way, atheism isn't a religion, and it really has nothing to do with proof. Presumably,most are atheist on the basis of no empirical evidence to support the existence of deities.

there is no evidence to the contrariety, to be backed by science you must have a proof and there is no way to prove or disprove a divine creator
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#27 Teenaged
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[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]atheist as they have no proof. second would be any religious zealotsurrealnumber5

1) Atheism is not a religion

2) While theists do have proof?

it is a belief system so it is a religion, and i never said they did.

Also:

since theists and atheists neither have proof then why mention only atheism?

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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"][QUOTE="Teenaged"]So every set of beliefs constitutes a religion?

Well that means most political ideologies, worldviews and philosophical opinions.

Teenaged

yep

So communism, socialism, anarchy, democracy etc are all religions, right?

no argument here
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#29 Avistann
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Oh god....I can hear the rumbles of a religion debate over the horizon.
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#30 Teenaged
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[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] yep surrealnumber5

So communism, socialism, anarchy, democracy etc are all religions, right?

no argument here

I dont need an argument.

I need an answer. Yes or no?

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The "proof" of atheism is logic, the proof of Christianity is what appears to be a work of fiction.

Animatronic64

I think you're misusing the term logic here. Logic has to do with statements being consistent. Logic only proves atheism if you accept certain premises to be true in the first place. The same can be said of a religion.

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#32 surrealnumber5
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to much flaming for me so im going to play a game yall have fun with your belief system
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#33 Teenaged
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to much flaming for me so im going to play a game yall have fun with your belief systemsurrealnumber5
Flaming?

You think you are being flamed?

Totally.... >__>

Do you know what flaming means? You are not even being trolled which is the indirect version of flaming.

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Scientology.

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[QUOTE="GHlegend77"]Jedi. Because it had to come up sometime.

I was going to bring that up.
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What's so weird about Norse Pagans?
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#37 Palantas
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Do you know what flaming means? You are not even being trolled which is the indirect version of flaming.

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I know what trolling is: Whatever a GameSpot mod happens to think it is at any given moment.

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#38 Animatronic64
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[QUOTE="Animatronic64"]

The "proof" of atheism is logic, the proof of Christianity is what appears to be a work of fiction.

Palantas

I think you're misusing the term logic here. Logic has to do with statements being consistent. Logic only proves atheism if you accept certain premises to be true in the first place. The same can be said of a religion.

The logic is that there is no empirical evidence to support the existence of gods, and quite frankly some would find the concept of deities to be too fantastical. Also, I think you misinterpreted my post a bit. Considering what I said in the later half.
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[QUOTE="Avistann"]Followers of Thorth3warr1or
What's so weird about Norse Pagans?

I was referencing the followers in the Old Man Logan series by Mark Millar. I got no problem with Norse Pagans :P
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[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

Do you know what flaming means? You are not even being trolled which is the indirect version of flaming.

Palantas

I know what trolling is: Whatever a GameSpot mod happens to think it is at any given moment.

:P

In GS if you are not all shineshine and flowers then you MUST be a troll. /some exaggeration

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If you dont think of any religion as being "weird", you probably dont know much about it...
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Scientology
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#43 tiopuit
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what the hell happened while i was gone?

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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"]atheist as they have no proof. second would be any religious zealotAnimatronic64

The "proof" of atheism is logic, the proof of Christianity is what appears to be a work of fiction. By the way, atheism isn't a religion, and it really has nothing to do with proof. Presumably,most are atheist on the basis of no empirical evidence to support the existence of deities.

"he "proof" of atheism is logic" :lol: I've heard that too many times.
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[QUOTE="I"]

I think you're misusing the term logic here. Logic has to do with statements being consistent. Logic only proves atheism if you accept certain premises to be true in the first place. The same can be said of a religion.

Animatronic64

The logic is that there is no empirical evidence to support the existence of gods, and quite frankly some would find the concept of deities to be too fantastical. Also, I think you misinterpreted my post a bit. Considering what I said in the later half.

I'm not sure whether the statement I quoted was what you think, or what you think athiests and Christians think. In either case, it's still a misuse of the termlogic. Logic alone never proves anything. Logic might determine that atheism and empricism are compatible.

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#46 tiopuit
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you should all know that i meant this to be about stuff like my first post not stuff we have all heard of

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#47 Animatronic64
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[QUOTE="Animatronic64"]

[QUOTE="I"]

I think you're misusing the term logic here. Logic has to do with statements being consistent. Logic only proves atheism if you accept certain premises to be true in the first place. The same can be said of a religion.

Palantas

The logic is that there is no empirical evidence to support the existence of gods, and quite frankly some would find the concept of deities to be too fantastical. Also, I think you misinterpreted my post a bit. Considering what I said in the later half.

I'm not sure whether the statement I quoted was what you think, or what you think athiests and Christians think. In either case, it's still a misuse of the termlogic. Logic alone never proves anything. Logic might determine that atheism and empricism are compatible.

I was actually kind of thinking at the back of my head that someone was going to say something like this about my post. That's not what I meant by it at all. And like I said, there is no proof, nor does atheism have anything to do with proof.

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The flying spaghetti monsters will come down from the heavens

tiopuit
How dare you. You obviously have never been touched by his noodly appendage.
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Isn't there a World of Warcraft one? :P

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#50 Velocitas8
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you should all know that i meant this to be about stuff like my first post not stuff we have all heard of

tiopuit

See, this is what happens when you put "Religion" in your topic title.