There are weird religions in this world, some of them even have millions of followers.
Some of these religions, including some mainstream ones, take part in what most people would consider to be odd practices.
Now, I have never been a religious person, nor will I ever be, but I think I have found what is the closest thing to a religion that I would ever want to be part of.
Before we get into that, let's take a little look at some of the more odd religions.
Take for example Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY), founded in 1981 by members of Psychic TV, Coil, Current 93, and a number of other individuals.
TOPY is dedicated to the manifestation of magical concepts lacking mysticism or the worship of gods. The group focuses on the psychic and magical aspects of the human brain linked with "guiltless sexuality."
Another is the Prince Philip Movement is a group from the Yaohnanen tribe in Vanuatu. They believe that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is a divine being, the pale-skinned son of a mountain spirit. (More like the pale-skinned son of a mountain goat)
One of the craziest religions is called Nuwaubianism. Apparently It is a term used to refer to the doctrines and teachings of the followers of Dwight York. According to listverse.com Nuwaubians originated as a Black Muslim group in New York in the 1970.
White people are said in one Nuwaubian myth to have been originally created as a race of killers to serve blacks as a slave army.
Nuwaubian also believe:
It is important to bury the afterbirth so that Satan does not use it to make a duplicate of the recently-born child.
People were once perfectly symmetrical and ambidextrous, but then a meteorite struck Earth and tilted its axis causing handedness and shifting the heart off-center in the chest.
Nikola Tesla came from the planet Venus. (Well we know that one to be true)
The Illuminati have nurtured a child, Satan's son, who was born on 6 June 1966 at the Dakota House on 72nd Street in New York to Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis. The Pope was present at the birth and performed necromantic ceremonies. The child was raised by former U.S. president Richard Nixon and now lives in Belgium, where it is hooked up bodily to a computer called The Beast 3M or 3666.
Previously my favourite was the religion started by George Costanza's father in Seinfeld called Festivus. It is a secular holiday celebrated on Dec. 23 as a way to celebrate the holiday season without participating in its pressures and commercialism. The holiday's celebration includes an unadorned aluminum Festivus pole, and practices such things as the Airing of Grievances and Feats of Strength, and the labelling of easily explainable events as Festivus miracles.
But my new favourite is called the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I only heard about it a few days ago, but I am already a convert. A story came in to the office the other day about an Austrian man named Niko Alm, who managed to convince drivers' licence officials there that he belonged to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and was entitled to wear a colander on his head for his licence photo.
Church members are known as Pastafarians, and believe that everything was created by a divinity called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who was drunk at the time it created the universe.
According to the website at www.venganza.org, followers believe pirates, the original Pastafarians, were peaceful explorers and it was due to Christian misinformation that they have an image of outcast criminals today. Pastafarians are fond of beer and believe every Friday is a religious holiday. They do not take themselves too seriously and embrace contradictions.
Mr. Alm was allowed to wear his colander for his photo.
