Original source : http://www.smashinglists.com
Posted : February 2013
Author : the admin
Religion is precious to many people. It is the driving force
that helps them deal with daily challenges and keeps them on their moral track.
Religion has been the source of incredible strength to help overcome
unimaginable hardship. As the list below shows, however, religion can also be a
big ball of confusion and hatred. Here are the top ten bizarre religious
beliefs that people actually follow.
While the sentiment makes for material for imagination-less
comedians and meme fanatics, the concept that either sex are inherently evil is
plain silly. Tell that to the followers of Nuwaubianism though, who also
believe that men were genetically engineered after women who existed for
generations first. Also according to Nuwaubianism afterbirth must be buried to
keep Satan from cloning your kid, famed inventor Nikola Tesla was an alien who
came from Venus and all homo sapiens were cloned from homo erectus… on Mars.
Perhaps the most controversial claim however is that white people were created
as a race of killers and are supposed to be slaves to blacks. As for the
creator of Nuwaubianism, Dwight York is serving a prison sentence for money
laundering and child molestation.
9. The Worst Religion Ever
Ed Wood was known as a director of cheap schlock films in
the 40’s and for his rather erratic behavior while doing so. Known for
cross-dressing and constant rewriting his films on set, Wood made one of the
most iconic films in history in “Plan 9 From Outer Space”, known as the worst
movie ever made by most critics. Followers of The Church of the Heavenly Wood
believe that watching and following his films is the true path to happiness and
positivity in life. They commonly cross-dress in honor of Ed Wood to celebrate
his life and films.
8. The One Tom Cruise Believes In
Scientology is the hot button religion/cult at the moment
and with good reason: everyone is talking about it. With litigation being
threatened on anyone who dares speak ill of the religion, Scientology is
gaining a reputation as a powerhouse in Hollywood
as well as the courtroom. This is interesting considering the beliefs of the
religion like humans were brought to earth 75 million years ago by alien space
ruler Xenu in spacecrafts and they detonated hydrogen bombs in volcanoes. With
some other extra oddities like believe in Thetan levels and the self-help
system of Dianetics, Scientology is one of the strangest religions in the
world.
7. Black Jews
That sounds horrifically offensive, but it is the root of
this faith. The Nation of Yahweh is a religion that believes blacks are the
‘true Jews’ and belong in Israel.
As for the ‘white Jews’ who live there, they are considered ‘white devils’ and
are to be vanquished. An offshoot of Black Hebrew Israelites, the Nation of
Yahweh believes that Yahweh ben Yahweh is the true Son of God and was sent on a
mission of Messianic proportions. Classified by many as a racist black supremacist
group, Nation of Yahweh is truly a strange religion. So, Sammy didn’t actually
follow this faith, but it is a good visual aid.
6. The Book Was Better
Based partially on a fictional religion of the same name in
the novel ‘Stranger in a Strange
Land’, the Church of All Worlds
refers to itself as a non-pagan religion that embraces Earth Mother Goddess and
Father God as well as gods and goddesses from Ancient Greece. Openly accepting
some science fiction elements, Church
of All Worlds has
established The Grey School of Wizardry inspired heavily by the Hogwarts
schools in the ‘Harry Potter’ novels.
5. Telepathic Aliens
Ivo A. Benda and several other ‘contacts’ have been claiming
since 1997 that they communicate with extraterrestrials. Founding a church named
Followers of the Cosmic People of Light Powers, Benda and crew claim to
telepathically communicate with aliens as well as have personal contact with
them. According the the Church, a fleet of spaceships led by their leader
Ashtar Sheran have been helping the good on Earth as they hover around it, and
are awaiting transporting the followers of the religion to another dimension,
presumably a Utopia.
4. God’s King
Family lines were at one time deemed to be chosen by God to
lead a country or empire and while that has fallen into disuse, there are some
that still adhere to this concept. The Prince Philip Movement is considered to
be a cult out of the Yaohnanen Tribe which is from the island
of Tanna in Vanuatu. Followers of this cult
believe that Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II of England, is a
divine being. Describing the prince as the ‘pale-skinned son of a mountain
spirit’, the tribe base much of this off a legend that a son would travel
overseas to a distant land, marry a powerful woman and return. Upon the visit
from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip to their island, villagers noticed her
power and thus assumed that Philip was the divine one.
3. Cannibal
Church
Technically a political organization, this group refers to
itself and acts like a church in most respects including having music, sermons
and the like. Where this group differs from mainstream religions is that they
believe that the world is overpopulated… way overpopulated. The Church of Euthanasia encourages members to take
direct action including taking one’s own life and avoiding procreating at all
costs as well as advocating cannibalism to avoid burying bodies. Led by the
Reverend Chris Korda in Boston,
the Church has come under fire many times by police and government agencies for
their strange behavior and beliefs.
2. Two By Two
Founded in 1848 in Oneida,
New York, The Oneida Community
believes that the Jesus Christ made his return to Earth already. Founder John Humphrey
Noyes claimed that when Jesus returned to Earth, it made it possible for every
person to achieve spiritual perfection while alive on Earth. The trick is that
every person in the community is married to everyone else, thus eliminating
single marriages. Called ‘The Swinger Church’ by some, The Oneida Community
believes that everyone on Earth should consider themselves married to one
another and would thus open up love and freedom of the soul.
1. Cthulu’s Little Boy
Pastafarians, the followers of the Church of the Flying
Spaghetti Monster, don’t take themselves too seriously. In fact, that’s the
whole point of the religion. The ‘story’ of the religion is that everything
began with the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster who cooperated with pirates to bring
good people to Earth. Believing that moral crises of our time originate from
the slowly decreasing number of good pirates, Pastafarians tend to dress in
pirate regalia and generally describe themselves as secular people trying to
prove a point and in fact have very little in the way of true religious
tenants… other than the funny stuff that is.
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