Religious parody
As a parody religion or fun religions are satirical religions called that present themselves through content and structure as similar to religions, but usually not as belief are designed, but as a protest against the influence of religion on society, science and politics. They are particularly common in the United States .
In particular, the attempt to introduce the doctrine of creation , the so-called intelligent design by creationists , in school lessons in the state of Kansas sparked violent protests and led to the establishment of the religion of the flying spaghetti monster , intelligent falling in 2005 and unintelligent design .
On September 14, 2013, members of the satirical party The PARTY founded the religion for eternal life, intra-family sexual intercourse, anything with divine revelation and charity (in short: The RELIGION ). The content of their belief is that everyone can decide for themselves what they believe in, which customs they practice and which commandments are sacred to them. In this way she wants to unite existing faiths and end religious conflicts. It is led by an "extra-parliamentary antipope ". This sees himself as " Martin Sonneborn's representative on earth" and is drawn every four years by the game Reise nach Jerusalem .
The religious community of the Church of the Holy Vagina first gained greater notoriety with the 1997 film Little Asshole . It mainly refers to the Holy Grail being a vagina . This is also addressed in the feature film The Da Vinci Code - Da Vinci Code . The neo-pagan concept is also taken up and parodied by the Triune Goddess . Reingenitalation is a ritual of the KDHV. The website is operated by Volka Polka .
In 2001, as a result of an internet campaign , Jediism , an essentially non-satirical syncretistic religion , was cited as their religion by 0.7 percent of respondents in the UK for mostly ironic reasons, and so Jediism was officially included in the statistics. Similar calls were made on the Internet in other countries, such as New Zealand.
Det Missionerande Kopimistsamfundet , in German: The missionary church of Kopimism, shares a comparable fate as Jediism . With copimism, she actually represents a serious doctrine which declares copying information, especially as file sharing , to be a sacred virtue.
With other groups it is also not clear whether they are parodic or serious. So has z. B. the Iglesia Maradoniana strong parody character, but most of the supporters are actually football fans. The Discordianism is aware of that.
Other fun religions do not parody the religions directly, but only individual aspects of the same or pseudo-religious zeal that can be found in some places. In the course of the Editor War, the Church of Emacs was created by Richard Stallman alias St. I GNUcius . In response to this, the supporters of the competitor editor Vi founded the Cult of Vi . The Church of Fear represents a general, critical examination of the spread of fear by authoritarian organizations. The Darwin fish parodies the ICHTHYS , but is not intended to be an atheistic symbol, but a commitment to the theory of evolution .
A religious parody does not have to appear like a religion, but can take other forms. Examples in this category are Betty Bowers from the field of cabaret, Die pious Helene from the field of literature, The Ghost from the film field, Everybody Draw Mohammed Day as a day of action and the whipping nun from the field of sculpture .
Many atheists - such as Richard Dawkins - use religious parodies like the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Invisible Pink Unicorn as modern versions of Russell's teapot to show that a religion needs to be proven by believers, not refuted by atheists.
Further examples
Web links
- Humanistic press service: spaghetti monsters and pink unicorns
- The Church of Saint Al-Bundy , another fun church
Individual evidence
- ^ Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- ↑ USA Today - Spaghetti Monster is noodling around with faith
- ↑ RELIGION on Facebook
- ↑ kdhv.de. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
- ↑ UK govt statistics on Jedi
- ↑ Richard Dawkins : Chapter 2: The God Hypothesis . In: The God Delusion . Bantam, London 2006, ISBN 9780593055489 .