Just like there is a porn for everything, there just might be a religion for everything (and everyone) – too. There are countless examples of oddball “religions” sprouting up in real life – and in movies/TV shows. Peter Griffin decided in a Family Guy episode that he wanted to establish a church of “The Fonz.”

Peter Griffin’s “Church of the Fonz.”

And on The Simpsons, Moe the bartender reveals that he is a snake handler…

And of course there have been countless cults… Jim Jones’ “People’s Temple,” the “Rajneesh Movement,” the “Heaven’s Gate” cult, the “Moonies…” People prove time and time again that it’s not too difficult to brainwash them into mindlessly following ideas/doctrines – even if to their own deaths. It really is kind of fascinating! Hell, my trivia team’s Facebook page has 644 followers!

During World War 2, a more “innocent” kind of religion emerged. When a bunch of remote island dwellers saw aircraft for the first time, well what choice did they have but to make a religion based on aircraft worship? It’s not surprising if you look like this:

The natives of Vanuatu lost their shit when they saw aircraft for the first time during World War 2. Here they are with a fake “aircraft” they built.

Dr Richard Feynman, an astrophysicist, described the cult in a 1974 paper:

During the war the [cargo religion] saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they’ve arranged to imitate things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas — he’s the controller — and they wait for the airplanes to land.