List of Religions & Cults (Sept. 14, 2017 — Nov. 17, 2023)

[USS Monitor]

For the unnamed religions column, #582 has one known for forbidding depiction of their "archangel", in addition to more generic religious stuff like complaining about "evolution". (This sounds vaguely reminiscent of Muslims forbidding depictions of their prophet, and Jews banning depictions of God, but is obviously not the same thing.)

Either that or she passed the Turing test.

Okay, let me be clearer.

WHO?

Reppy.

[Trotterdam]

Well, my mod avatar character is my Megaman X fancharacter Firefury

Ah, so "real".

If it's just a NationStates mod, then it's no more noteworthy than Frisbeetarianism not coming up more often - moreso, since Frisbeetarianism was described as a major religion when originally introduced, while the Cult of the Undead @@ANIMAL@@ had always been portrayed as a wacky fringe cult.

Here's a fuller explanation I found.

While searching around, it was kind funny to see the repeated comments about the name "Firefury Amahira" not sounding very feminine, since I'd always figured her for a girl. Well, okay, she's described as female in the issue, but I never had a problem with it, probably because of the "a" at the end. It might have been intended as a last name, which in most languages doesn't change according to the person's gender, but then it's not like deities sport last names the way humans do, so I had always figured "Amahira" as her name and "Firefury" as more of a title or honorific.

[USS Monitor]

Well, my mod avatar character is my Megaman X fancharacter Firefury

Ah, so "real".

If it's just a NationStates mod, then it's no more noteworthy than Frisbeetarianism not coming up more often - moreso, since Frisbeetarianism was described as a major religion when originally introduced, while the Cult of the Undead @@ANIMAL@@ had always been portrayed as a wacky fringe cult.

I guess it's a little weird that both don't come up more often, but Frisbeetarianism isn't actually named after Fris and isn't unique to NS.

While searching around, it was kind funny to see the repeated comments about the name "Firefury Amahira" not sounding very feminine, since I'd always figured her for a girl. Well, okay, she's described as female in the issue, but I never had a problem with it, probably because of the "a" at the end. It might have been intended as a last name, which in most languages doesn't change according to the person's gender, but then it's not like deities sport last names the way humans do, so I had always figured "Amahira" as her name and "Firefury" as more of a title or honorific.

Cos "Reploid Productions" sounds so feminine, right?

[Jutsa]

Holy cow! So that's why it's not called Frisbeeterianism - though I still think that'd have been a better parody.
Updated the info on Frisbeetarianism.

Also... what makes the world go round?
Don't actually say it - unless you can. Not sure what the forum standards are tbh

[Trotterdam]

Also... what makes the world go round?

Conservation of angular momentum.

[Trotterdam]

The speaker in #825 option 5 is wearing yellow robes, suggesting that (s)he may be a follower of the Tranquility of Yellow, but this is not stated.

Whatever religion (s)he follows, its tenets include vegetarianism.

Oh, by the way...

Either that or she passed the Turing test.

Well, since we were talking about Reploid Productions, yes, she is a robot.

[USS Monitor]

Oh, by the way...

Either that or she passed the Turing test.

Well, since we were talking about Reploid Productions, yes, she is a robot.

Very good AI, though. Much better than my clunky 19th century software.

[Jutsa]

Major update to unnamed and implied religions, after I got an issue with Jesus in it and didn't think to ctrl+f "God" and "Jesus".

Most of them are just sayings with God in them, or "If God (didn't) want(ed) man to have this, he'd (not) have done that" arguments,
hence the section outside of the spoilers. Some stuff added to there too, though.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

A Role To Play, right?

Normally I'd have avoided adding references to real world religions, but as Catholics already existed within the issues, and as we'd had Word of God from the boss to leave that reference intact, I figured that it was okay to add this joke in.

Besides I have that T-shirt.

[Jutsa]

That was a pretty good Jesus reference, to be honest. I thought there was another draft... maybe by you, where Jesus was vaguely mentioned?

[Trotterdam]

#848 features a holiday named "Maxxmas" that, while not stated to be religious in nature (and not matching any known religion), is clearly Christmas.

[Jutsa]

thanks. :3

[Pogaria]

#848 features a holiday named "Maxxmas" that, while not stated to be religious in nature (and not matching any known religion), is clearly Christmas.

Maxxmas is obviously the annual peace festival of the Order of Maxx. Nobody ever pays attention to the Order of Maxx! If they weren't so pacifist and forgiving, they might get angry about that.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

No, you're missing the true meaning of Maxxmas, whic is the purchase and gifting of books. Especially satires about the perils of capitalizm.

[Jutsa]

Updated the list with a fair bit of information I forgot to add after issue #851.

[Jutsa]

Bumping for easier access.

[Jutsa]

Mendesmetetics was added! Let me know if it's an irl reference.

[Pogaria]

Mendesmetetics was added! Let me know if it's an irl reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianetics

[Jutsa]

thanks. :3

[Australian rePublic]

Please make date format say Sept. 14
Can we please get this stickied as well

[Singapore no2]

Please make date format say Sept. 14
Can we please get this stickied as well

I fully support this notion as well.

[Jutsa]

pfffff

This made my day.

[Fauxia]

381, not 382, mentions Beelzebub. And Beelzebub is a demon in Abrahamic religions, fyi

[Jutsa]

Fixing that now.
Edit: done. Moved to implied occurrences, and mentions that it's part of the song.
That makes a lot of sense.

[Jutsa]

Unnecessary bump~