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Church of All Worlds – Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (inspired a non-fictional religious group of the same name) Church of Science – the bogus religion established by Salvor Hardin in Isaac Asimov's Foundation; The Covenant Religion, also known as "The Great Journey" – Halo; Cthulhu Mythos cults – Cthulhu Mythos
A "赤", the kanji figure for red, the symbol of Matrixism, a fictional religion. A fictional religion, hypothetical religion, imaginary religion or invented religion refers to a fictional belief system created for the purposes of literature, film, or game. Fictional religions can be complex and inspired by or build on existing religions.
This is a navigational list of deities exclusively from fictional works, organized primarily by media type then by title of the fiction work, series, franchise or author. . This list does not include deities worshipped by humans in real life that appear in fictional works unless they are distinct enough to be mentioned in a Wikipedia article separate from the articles for the entities they are ...
Theological fiction is fictional writing which shapes or depicts people's attitudes towards theological beliefs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is typically instructional or exploratory rather than descriptive, [ 4 ] and it engages specifically with the theoretical ideas which underlie and shape typical responses to religion . [ 5 ]
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Fictional religions (3 C, 19 P) Fictional religious places (1 C, 2 P) A. Fiction about the afterlife (16 C, 36 P) C. Religious comedy and humour (5 C, 8 P)
This can be done through fictional religions found in many works of fiction - one example of this can be the Bokononism from the novel Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut. [1] Another example of this is the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which parodies the demand for equal time employed by intelligent design and creationism. [2]
The authors of the story likely believed it to be true. It forms part of the origin story of a major religion. It may have taken its grain of truth from real events, such as a catastrophic local flood. Fiction implies that the author knew they were writing a falsehood. Perhaps the author of the Ark myth did intend it as a fiction.