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ZARA

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Crazy religions-
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth
Nation of Yahweh
Church of All Worlds
Universe People
Prince Philip Movement
The Church of Euthanasia
Nuwaubianism
Raëlism
Aum Shinrikyo / Aleph
Creativity Movement
The Body of Christ
The Church of Maradona

And that's just from the past 50 years. Religion is fascinating...people will believe anything and they will all swear their beliefs are the correct beliefs.

Now if you go back a few thousand years, religions from the dark ages and B.C. are VERY COOL and sad at the same time when you begin to view all of them as a whole and what people are willing to do "in the name of God(s)"


The 20 Weirdest Religious Beliefs | Alternet
How many of them can you match up with a familiar religious tradition? (The answers are at the bottom.)

1. The foreskin of [a holy one] may lie safeguarded in reliquaries made of gold and crystal and inlayed with gems--or it may have ascended into the heavens all by itself. ( 2)

2. A race of giants once roamed the earth, the result of women and demi-gods interbreeding. (1, 6). They lived at the same time as fire breathing dragons. ( 1)

3. Evil spirits can take control of pigs. ( 1)

4. A talking donkey scolded a prophet. ( 1, 3)

5. A righteous man can control his wife’s access to eternal paradise. ( 6)

6. Brown skin is a punishment for disobeying God. ( 6)

7. A prophet once traveled between two cities on a miniature flying horse with the face of a woman and the tail of a peacock. ( 4)

8. [The Holy One] forbids a cat or dog receiving a blood transfusion and forbids blood meal being used as garden fertilizer. ( 7)

9. Sacred underwear protects believers from spiritual contamination and, according to some adherents, from fire and speeding bullets ( 6)

10. When certain rites are performed beforehand, bread turns into human flesh after it is swallowed. ( 2)

11. Invisible supernatural beings reveal themselves in mundane objects like oozing paint or cooking food. ( 2)

12. In the end times, [the Holy One’s] chosen people will be gathered together in Jackson County, Missouri. ( 6)

13. Believers can drink poison or get bit by snakes without being harmed. ( 1)

14. Sprinkling water on a newborn, if done correctly, can keep the baby from eons of suffering should he or she die prematurely. ( 2)

15. Waving a chicken over your head can take away your sins. ( 3)

16. [A holy one] climbed a mountain and could see the whole earth from the mountain peak. ( 1, 2)

17. Putting a dirty milk glass and a plate from a roast beef sandwich in the same dishwasher can contaminate your soul. ( 3)

18. There will be an afterlife in which exactly 144,000 people get to live eternally in Paradise. ( 8)

19. Each human being contains many alien spirits that were trapped in volcanos by hydrogen bombs. ( 5)

20. [A supernatural being] cares tremendously what you do with your penis. 1,2,3,4,6,7,8.

Key: 1-Evangelical or “Bible Believing” Christianity, 2-Catholic Christianity, 3-Judaism, 4-Islam, 5-Scientology, 6-Mormonism 7-Christian Science 8-Jehovah’s Witness

Each of these beliefs is remarkable in its own way. But the composite goes beyond remarkable to revealing. What it reveals is an underlying belief that is something like this:

The process that produced this world and human life is best unveiled not by the scientific method but by the musings of iron age herdsmen (1,2,3,4,7,8) or science fiction writers (5), or con artists (6) whose theories are best judged by examining only assertions that cannot be falsified.
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