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* This trope was in full effect over 300 years ago: Tsar Peter the Great and his friends formed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 page image is of the UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster, the god of Pastafarianism, who originated as a protest against attempts to have intelligent design taught in American public schools but has sense been adopted as a semi-serious/completely serious religion by some.

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* This trope was in full effect over 300 years ago: Tsar Peter the Great and his friends formed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 the Antichrist.
* The page image is of the UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster, the god of Pastafarianism, who originated as a protest against attempts to have intelligent design taught in American public schools but has sense since been adopted as a semi-serious/completely serious religion by some.
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* The page image is of the UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster, the god of Pastafarianism, who originated as a protest against attempts to have intelligent design taught in American public schools.

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* The page image is of the UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster, the god of Pastafarianism, who originated as a protest against attempts to have intelligent design taught in American public schools.schools but has sense been adopted as a semi-serious/completely serious religion by some.
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* Most recently, there is The Cult of Kek. An occultist sect composed mainly of Internet Trolls, 4Chan users, and Occultists who supported Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. election; dedicated to worship of an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kek_(mythology) Ancient Egyptian chaos god]] ForTheLulz (also deriving from the Korean equivalent of "LOL", "ㅋ ㅋ ㅋ"[[note]]pronounced "kekeke"[[/note]]), and was formed partially due to the aforementioned 4Chan users noticing similarities between Pepe and Kek, and partially out of protest of Hillary Clinton and CNN [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer proclaiming that Pepe was a symbol of White Nationalism and Neo-Nazism]]. They practice "Meme Magick", observe repeating digits, and see Pepe The Frog as Kek's prophet. [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cult-of-kek For more]] check those links.

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* Most recently, there is The Cult of Kek. An occultist sect composed mainly of Internet Trolls, 4Chan users, and Occultists who supported Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. election; dedicated to worship of an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kek_(mythology) Ancient Egyptian chaos god]] ForTheLulz (also deriving from the Korean equivalent of "LOL", "ㅋ ㅋ ㅋ"[[note]]pronounced "kekeke"[[/note]]), and was formed partially due to the aforementioned 4Chan users noticing similarities between Pepe and Kek, and partially out of protest of Hillary Clinton and CNN [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer proclaiming that Pepe was a symbol of White Nationalism and Neo-Nazism]].Neo-Nazism. They practice "Meme Magick", observe repeating digits, and see Pepe The Frog as Kek's prophet. [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cult-of-kek For more]] check those links.
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* Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Stopping is the anarchist version of this concept.

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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Billy_and_the_Church_of_Stop_Shopping Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Stopping Shopping]] is the anarchist version of this concept.concept, in which the titular reverend gives warnings about a consumerism-driven apocalypse. Billy and his "church" typically show up at locations synonymous with said consumerism, such as banks, stores, and corporate headquarters, where they perform exorcisms against the ills of capitalism.

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