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<\/p>\nIt is with some trepidation that I present to you the 5 Most Ridiculous Cults and Religions of the world. Not because I think that the God of the Tree People or the divine Deity that is, er, Prince Philip will strike me down. It’s more because I suspect there are some even more bizarre cults out there that I haven’t even heard of yet. So, without further ado:<\/p>\n
5. The Cosmic People Of Light Powers<\/p>\n
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Following the fall of the Soviet Union, the Velvet Revolution and the split with Slovakia, you\u2019d have thought that the Czech Republic is a place of hard-headed pragmatists.<\/p>\n
Apparently not. The Cosmic People of Light Powers \u2013 otherwise known as the\u00a0 Universe People \u2013 are a cult that believes extra terrestrials are in contact with certain key people in their movement: mainly leader Ivo A. Benda.<\/p>\n
Quite why super-intelligent extra terrestrials have chosen to communicate with a small Central European country with a population less than that of London is unclear. However, you\u2019ll be pleased to know that, if you are good person and a believer, you are eligible to be transported to another dimension. Which is nice.<\/p>\n
4. Prince Philip<\/p>\n
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Most people know of Prince Philip as the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and a man who is fond of making inappropriate, borderline racist, remarks every time he leaves the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
However, it turns out that the Yaohnanen tribe on the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu believe he is a divine being, descended from a mountain spirit, who would one day return to Vanuatu in triumph.<\/p>\n
What Prince Philip himself thinks of this is unknown. However, considering that arch-conspiracy theorist David Icke believes that the Prince is actually an alien lizard in disguise, personally I think that the Yaohnanen have probably got closer to the truth.
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3. The Druids<\/p>\n
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Apparently, there are 10,000 practising Druids in Britain today. Like most neo-pagan religions, the Druids like to claim a heritage that goes back thousands of years.<\/p>\n
They also like to claim pretty much any Stone Age monument \u2013 Stonehenge being an obvious example \u2013 as some kind of Druidic temple. The only problem is: there is literally no physical archaeological evidence for the existence of ancient Druids or Druidic religion in Britain. Oops!<\/p>\n
2. The Church Of All Worlds<\/p>\n
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Have you read Robert A. Heinlein\u2019s science fiction classic \u2018Stranger In A Strange Land\u2019? No? Well, you should.<\/p>\n
What you shouldn\u2019t do, however, is to take it literally and set up a religion that is named after the clearly made-up religion in that particular book. \u00a0This is exactly what Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and his equally strangely named wife, Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, did. Worryingly enough \u2018The Church Of All Worlds\u2019 has been in existence for over 40 years and shows no signs of disappearing.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next: a wizarding school based on J.K Rowling\u2019s \u2018Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry\u2019? Well, it\u2019s funny you should mention that because Oberon Zell-Ravenheart recently founded The Grey School of Wizardry. You can\u2019t make this stuff up. <\/em>Well, you can. But then some crazy comes along and makes a religion out of it.<\/p>\n 1. Wicca<\/p>\n This is another of those neo-pagan religions that likes to claim thousands of years of history that they don\u2019t really possess.<\/p>\n The simple fact is this: Wicca was invented in the mid-1950s by a civil servant called Gerald. I don\u2019t know about you, but for me, believing in anything created by a civil servant; let alone one called Gerald, is pretty much impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is with some trepidation that I present to you the 5 Most Ridiculous Cults and Religions of the world. Not because I think that the God of the Tree…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":54265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1312],"tags":[1741,1743,1742],"class_list":["post-7673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oddities","tag-cults","tag-groups","tag-religions"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.funcage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/wicca.jpg\" "\\"wicca\\"")
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