San Francisco Atheists - How Weird Street Faire, 4/20/20002

"Create Your Own Religion" Contest

How Weird Street Faire, April 20, 2002

the 5 runners-up (in alphabetical order)

Name of Religion: Church of Gustology
Name & description of god(s): Food!
Chief Prophet: Unknown
Core Beliefs (Tenets, Holy Symbols, Rituals, etc,):
The Church of Gustology celebrates the holy, ultimate & undeniable
source of our sustenance:
FOOD.
All acts of eating are prayer. Our most important holiday is dinner.
All unbelivers and other
non-practicers of Gustology will be cursed with an inner hunger.

Name of Religion: Church of Orgasmic Divinity (C.O.D.)
Name & description of god(s): All gods & goddesses of love,
lust, creativity in every culture!
Chief Prophet: R.D. Silbey
Core Beliefs (Tenets, Holy Symbols, Rituals, etc,):
1) Pleasure is productive
2) Orgasm long & prosper
3) A Honeymoon EVERYDAY, why not?

Name of Religion: Nugetology
Name & description of god(s): FENICLUCK, a fiery rubber chicken who
appears in the form of a golden nugget
Chief Prophet:: John Schwark
Core Beliefs (Tenets, Holy Symbols, Rituals, etc,):
Go to church at least once a month. Eat nuggets, the "Body of
Fenicluck." Drink Orange Soda...the "Blood of Fenicluck."
Priestess in orange & brown robe feeds them to you. Big windows made
of chicken wire and saran wrap shaped in the
stories of creation, egg laying, and preparation. Major holiday
corresponds to Easter. Egg hunt. Eat Feathers. Sacred
feather pillow holds "Egg of Fenicluck" in Toledo, Ohio. "Give us all
your silly money." Heaven is a fryer full of over -->
(sacred parchment mysteriously ends here)

Name of Religion: Sealionism
Name & description of god(s): There is no god only an ideal
Chief Prophet:: Sea Lions
Core Beliefs (Tenets, Holy Symbols, Rituals, etc,);
The ideal life is the one led by Sea Lions - They symbolize every ideal
there is - In 1990 in an attempt to save humanity they
came in Dock 39 (sic) and stayed for people to be inspired by them.
The main ritual is just lying on the rocks and do as little as you can.

Name of Religion: UFO Cult of the Supreme Saucerians
Name & description of god(s): THE Supreme Saucerian
Chief Prophet:: Unknown
Core Beliefs (Tenets, Holy Symbols, Rituals, etc,):
This is the only true-one-god = (pictoglyph of Flying Saucer)
He/She/It will come to us in his/her/it's Holy, Radient, Sacred Super
Saucer in our hour of greatest need.
All the Faithful will be wisked away to the sacred planet
SAUCERO PRIME.

AND THE BIG WINNER:

Name of Religion: Church of Universal Hate
Name & description of god(s): "Hate"
Chief Prophet:: Unknown
Core Beliefs (Tenets, Holy Symbols, Rituals, etc,):
Unlike all of the false religions whose beliefs inevitably require
hating a subset of the world's population,
the CoUH requires all members to hate everyone in the world both
emphatically and equally.

The Symbol, as well as the traditional greeting between members, is the
well-known "Middle Finger."

"God For A Day" Contest 2004

How Weird Street Faire, May 1, 2004

What would YOU do if you were God for a day?

the 9 runners-up (in no particular order)

If I were God I would give Big Businesses a conscience and teach
the people about preservation of mind, body, and soul through nature.