List of crazy and weird religions?

Question

can anyone give me a list, or a link to a list of religions that are unusual or odd or that worship strange things or that have strange restrictions or beliefs for example scientology [: ha ha

Answer 1

All religions are crazy and weird.

Answer 2

well pagans and satan worshippers r freaks

Answer 3

Mormon should be on there

Answer 4

Scientology

Eckankar

Aetherius Society

Raelian

Mormonism

Jehovah's Witnesses

Church of Yahweh

Answer 5

every religion other then the one you believe in is crazy, weird, unethical, and wrong in your eyes.

Answer 6

All of them are weird and crazy .

Answer 7

All of them!! Every religion believes in magical things.

Answer 8

bism, Azali, Bahá'í

Christianity

Arianism

Catholicism

          o Roman Catholicism

          o Anglicanism

          o Eastern Orthodoxy

          o Oriental Orthodoxy

          o Assyrian Church of the East

Protestantism

          o Pre-Lutheran Protestants

                + Hussites

                + Lollards

                + Waldensians

          o Lutheranism

          o Reformed

                + Puritans

                + Presbyterianism

                + Congregationalism

          o Anabaptists

          o Methodism

          o Pietism and Holiness movement

          o Baptists

          o Brethren

          o Irvingites

          o Pentecostalism

          o Charismatics

          o African Initiated Churches

          o United and uniting churches

          o Religious Society of Friends

          o Restorationism

          o Southcottites

          o Adventism and Millerites

          o British Israelism

    * Latter Day Saints

    * Nontrinitarian Groups

          o Christadelphians

          o Iglesia ni Cristo

          o Most Holy Church of God in Christ Jesus

          o Jehovah's Witnesses

          o Oneness Pentecostalism

          o Unitarianism and Universalism

    * Messianic Judaism

    * Christian Spiritualism

          o Swedenborgianism

          o Spiritism

          o New Thought

          o Christian Science

    * Esoteric Christianity

[edit] Gnosticism

    * Christian Gnosticism

          o Ebionites

          o Cerdonians

                + Marcionism (not entirely Gnostic)

          o Colorbasians

          o Simonians

    * Early Gnosticism

          o Borborites

          o Cainites

          o Carpocratians

          o Ophites

    * Hermeticism

    * Medieval Gnosticism

          o Cathars

          o Bogomils

          o Paulicianism

    * Persian Gnosticism

          o Mandaeanism

          o Manichaeism

                + Bagnolians

    * Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism

          o Sethians

                + Basilidians

                + Thomasines

                + Valentinians

                      # Bardesanites

Islam

see Divisions of Islam.

    * Ghulat including (considered separate religions)

          o Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsan)

          o Ahmadi

          o Druze

          o Submission

    * Kalam Schools

          o Ash'ari

          o Kalam

          o Maturidi

          o Murji'ah

          o Mu'tazili

    * Kharijite

          o Ibadi (Only surviving sect)

          o HarÅ«riyya

          o Azraqi

          o Sufri

    * s**+'a

          o Ismailis

                + Mustaali / Bohra

          o Jafari

                + Twelvers

                + Alawites

                + Alevi / Bektashi

          o Zaiddiyah

    * Sufism

          o Bektashi

          o Chishti

          o Mevlevi

          o Naqshbandi

          o Tariqah

          o Quadiriyyah

          o Suhrawardiyya

          o Tijani

    * Sunni

          o Hanafi

                + Berailvi

                + Deobandi

          o Hanbali

                + Wahhabi

          o Maliki

          o Shafi'i

[edit] Judaism

(see also: Jew; Hebrews; Jewish Denominations; Jewish ethnic divisions)

    * Contemporary divisions

          o Conservative Judaism (Masorti/Conservadox)

                + Union for Traditional Judaism

          o Humanistic Judaism (atheistic, not always identified as a religion)

          o Karaite Judaism

          o Orthodox Judaism

                + Haredi Judaism

                + Hasidic Judaism

                + Modern Orthodox Judaism

          o Reconstructionist Judaism (regards Jewish identity as primarily cultural, not religious)

          o Reform Judaism

    * Historical groups

          o Essenes

          o Pharisees (ancestor of Rabbinic/Orthodox Judaism)

          o Sadducees

          o Sects that believed Jesus was a prophet

                + Ebionites

                + Elkasites

                + Nazarenes

          o Zealots

                + Sicarii

          o Sabbateans

                + Frankists

[edit] Rastafarianism

    * The Nyahbinghi Order

    * Bobo Shanti

    * The Twelve Tribes of Israel sect

[edit] Sabians

    * Sabians of Harran

    * Mandaean Nasaræan Sabeans

[edit] Samaritanism

[edit] Indian religions

Mostly religions that originated in Greater India that share a number of key concepts, namely Dharma and Karma and religions and traditions related to, and descended from, them.

[edit] Ayyavazhi

[edit] Buddhism

(see Schools of Buddhism)

    * Nikaya schools (which have historically been called Hinayana in the West)

          o Theravada

                + Sri Lankan Amarapura Nikaya

                + Sri Lankan Siam Nikaya

                + Sri Lankan Ramañña Nikaya

                + Bangladeshi Sangharaj Nikaya

                + Bangladeshi Mahasthabir Ni

Answer 9

None are crazy or weird. they are simply alternate paths to a personal truth.

Answer 10

The International Church of Christ, oddest of the oddest  -- (similar in mindset to the Jehovah's Witnesses).  

The ICC thinks that nearly all other churches and certainly all other non-Christian groups are going straight to h**l when they die (with no possibility of paroll!).  The bottom line is that at least 9,999 out of every 10,000 people on earth are h**l-bound when they die.  Please, people!

The weird thing is, they can make a very strong and fairly convincing case for their stupid dogma by taking quite a scholarly and all-inclusive approach to the Bible.  In my involvement with those people, (and I was one of them for years), my beef was not with the teachers and leaders, but with the ridiculousness of the Bible itself.  

Answer 11

its kind of pointless since people will give you different answers.

Answer 12

Christianity

Islam

Judaism

Buddhism.

Scientology.

Answer 13

  Such a list would include every religion and , cult  in existance.  Only God's word can be considered as not being weird.. Read God's truth in the Conversations with God books by Neale Donald Walsch..Get a copy at your library until you can purchase your own..  God bless.

Answer 14

I got to say Scientology takes the cake. That Xenu stuff is W-A-C-K-Y.

Answer 15

Seventh Day Adventists

Athiests

Agnostics

Muslims

Answer 16

I don't like bashing people's beliefs, but Scientology? Seriously?

I mean, I'm a Wiccan (Witch), for heaven's sake, so if *I* am calling a religion weird that's really saying something.

Answer 17

Every religion is crazy...

Answer 18

I have a harder challenge for you:

Name one that isn't crazy or weird!

Answer 19

Discordianism

Church of the SubGenius

Invisible Pink Unicorn

Chruch of Google

Last Thursdayism