Concept cluster: Philosophy > Fringe religions
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(humorous, often attributive) A phrase, often satirical, recasting the Biblical couple of Adam and Eve as a homosexual couple, Adam and Steve. In context, it may be used as a pejorative against either homosexuality or religious opposition to it.
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A tribe of Hindu ascetics who are or were thought to eat the flesh of corpses.
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(Islam) The Devil.
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(Christianity, Islam) The false messiah who, under direct control of the Devil, will lead the abomination in the end times.
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A Japanese doomsday cult founded in 1987.
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(humorous) William Shakespeare.
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(fiction, religion) In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, a religion secretly practiced by the people of San Lorenzo, the supreme religious act of which consists of any two worshippers rubbing the bare soles of their feet together to inspire spiritual connection.
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Pertaining to Babism.
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A member of the Carbonari.
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(sometimes capitalized) an epithet for God or Satan.
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Of or pertaining to Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), English occultist and writer, or to his works or beliefs.
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(informal, derogatory) David Miscavige, the leader of the Church of Scientology since 1986.
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A parody religion centered around Dinkan, a deity based on a Malayalam comic book who is an anthropomorphic superhero mouse.
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An enthusiast of the works of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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An adherent of Eckankar.
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(scientology) L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986), American author and founder of Scientology.
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(of Ancient Greek gods) worshiped on intercalary days
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A Scientologist who practises outside the official Scientology organisation.
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(rare) Synonym of gopnik
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A purported secret society of enlightened mystics who guide the spiritual development of the human race.
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The main character in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
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saint-worshipping
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The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play, whose father's ghost, murdered by Hamlet's uncle, exhorts him to seek revenge.
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(by extension) An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine.
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A main character in Shakespeare's tragedy Othello.
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A member of an obscure sect of French familists.
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A network or group of people who are somehow affiliated or linked spiritually.
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(Internet) An Internet-based parody religion led by James "Kibo" Parry and partly satirizing Scientology.
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(Mormonism) In Mormon theology, a celestial body considered to be nearest to the throne of God.
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Relating to the Koreshanity religion.
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The set of religious and pseudoscientific beliefs put forth by Cyrus Teed (also known as Koresh), including reincarnation, immortality, alchemy, and the idea that the Earth and universe are contained within a concave sphere.
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A member of this sect.
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Synonym of Koreshian (“member of religious sect”)
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The eponymous main character of William Shakespeare's play.
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Of or relating to Manichaeism.
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A follower of Charles Manson (born 1934), American leader of a cult-like criminal group in the 1960s.
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(Hinduism) Not astika, see there for more.
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Someone who hides their faith or belief in something; a secret adherent.
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The title character character in Shakespeare's tragedy Othello.
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(slang, offensive, often capitalized) A fundamentalist Mormon, especially one from a sect which practices polygamy.
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An adherent of Rastafarianism.
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(UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.
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A member of the Temple of Set, an occultist organization following the left-hand path.
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(Islam) Iblis, Satan.
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(nickname) William Shakespeare
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An adherent of Tenrikyo
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A William Shakespeare play.
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One of the main characters of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.
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(paganism) a modern assembly of Rodnovers, atavistically based off the medieval veche.
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An admirer of Richard Wagner and/or his work.
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A Wiccan or pagan workshop or retreat.
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A white supremacist racial religion promulgated by David Lane.

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