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* [[The Simpsons]] are members of The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism, which split from the Catholics in 1573 over the right to go to church with wet hair, which the Presbylutherans have since abolished.
* In ''[[South Park]]'', Dawkins mentions the Flying Spaghetti Monster while talking to Mrs. Garrison during a lunch in the episode Go God Go.
* The Coo-Coo Cola Cult in ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'', which is also a parody of a [[Scam Religion]]
== [[Real Life]] ==
* This trope was in full effect over 300 years ago: Tsar Peter the Great and his friends formed [[wikipedia:The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters|The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters]] that not only practiced heavy drinking and orgies, but wore church attire and used religious titles when doing so. The pious Russians were not amused - some even proclaimed the Tsar to be Antichrist.
* The Church of the [[Flying Spaghetti Monster]] was established as a protest against teaching "intelligent design" in schools. The object was to demand equal time for Pastafarian theory.
** The use of Satanism as a religion (instead of merely being the flip side of [[Christianity]]) is sometimes this - as a protest against the Ten Commandments or other religious iconography on public lands, the Satanic Temple will often demand that a statue of a winged goat be given equal time, space or prominence.
** In many US states, a "minister of religion" from seemingly any denomination holds a few special privileges, most notably the right to officiate marriage. As the US does not directly recognise a right ''ex officio'' of sea captains to officiate, it's not uncommon for a captain to obtain other credentials (such as notary public, or minister of some obscure religious denomination whose lone brick-and-mortar chapel inexplicably ordained twelve million of its followers by mail) to conduct [[Married At Sea|weddings at sea]].
* Invisible Pink Unicorn, May Her Holy Hooves Never Be Shod.
* Various Cthulhu cults.
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