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Originally Posted by wodin
OH GOOD! Does that mean we get to talk about religion?
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Dearly beloved, let me tell you about
my faith: The Church of the Sacred Cat.
The religion is simple, with two tenets.
1) The Lord Mota resides on Mars in the body of a sacred green cat.
2) If you believe
that, you'll believe
anything.
Instead of dogma, we have catma.
Instead of wine and communion wafers, our sacrements are beer and potato chips.
The church is administrated by a lowerarchy, with bishops and discardinals, and there is a privy council which meets in a privy to advise the spiritual leader of the faith.
Heresy trials are a popular activity. At one, one member was charged with heresy for having achieved cognitive dissonance, and another was charged with heresy for
failing to do so.
I think there's a market for a religion that believes in fun as part of the religion.
(The Church was invented by an old friend in science fiction fandom, which has a tradition of hoax religions, like Herbangelism and Roscoe. I actually found a real world use for it. I once worked with a Jehovah's Witness who was more interested in preaching his faith than doing the job. After determining he wasn't about to listen to my arguments, I gave him the Church of the Sacred cat as my religion with a straight face. Possessing no sense of humor about such things, he took me seriously, decided I was an utter loon, and shut up about religion. Win-win!
)
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Dennis