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A parody religion or mock religion is a belief system that challenges the spiritual convictions of others, often through humor, satire, or burlesque (literary ridicule). Often constructed to achieve a specific purpose related to another belief system, a parody religion can be a parody of several religions, sects, gurus, cults, or new religious movements at the same time, or even a parody of no ...
Christ by Heinrich Hofmann, 1889, digitally edited to include a MAGA Cap.. Republican Jesus or GOP Jesus is a meme satirizing Republican socially conservative and libertarian Christians whose values appear antithetical to the Gospels, [1] a Jesus who "loves borders, guns, unborn babies, and economic prosperity and hates homosexuality, taxes, welfare, and universal healthcare", [2] and for whom ...
Dinkoism (/ ˈ d ɪ n k ɔɪ z əm /), the Dinkoist religion, or Dinkamatham [3] [2] is a parody religion and social movement that emerged and evolved on social networks [4] organized by independent welfare groups in the Indian state of Kerala. Adherents describe Dinkoism as a genuine religion.
The white supremacist Creativity movement has also been described as a nontheistic religion. [44] The sociologist Auguste Comte devised a religion called the Religion of Humanity based on his Positivist principles. The Religion of Humanity is not a metaphysical religion and as such there are no gods or supernaturalisms in its belief. [45]
Christian Borys has offered the counterpoint to criticism of Saint Javelin that the Saint Javelin meme both means a lot to people in Ukraine as a symbol during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and that there is a long history of using religious icons as a source of moral support during a war. [14] [15] [16]
Some people have criticized the idea that "God" and "Faith" are viruses of the mind, suggesting that it is far removed from evidence and data" that it is unreasonable to extract certain behaviours solely through religious memes. [37] Alister McGrath has responded by arguing that "memes have no place in serious scientific reflection", [38] or ...
Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life is a book by Alister McGrath, a theologian who is currently Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University.The book, published in 2004, with a second edition in 2015, aims to refute claims about religion made by another well-known professor at Oxford, Richard Dawkins.
Although religious memes have proliferated in human cultures, the modern scientific community has been relatively resistant to religious belief. Robertson (2007) [ 67 ] reasoned that if evolution is accelerated in conditions of propagative difficulty, [ 68 ] [ page needed ] then we would expect to encounter variations of religious memes ...