I live in a country (Peru) with a very strong catholic church. Even the constitution recognizes it as one of the main institutions here. In schools, everybody takes “religion”, which is just “catholicism”. Everybody seems to be catholic (or christian) here.
What is funny, is that most of these people don’t even know enough about their own religion or the bible to have a decent conversation (I have read the bible entirely a couple of times, it is one of my favorite science fiction books ever, the book of Job is amazing).
I am a “cthlulolic”. I am a member of the Peruvian Church of Cthulhu. Our beliefs are simple, we will all be killed, eaten and destroyed by Cthulhu. That’s all. It’s just a matter of who will be eaten first.
There is even people that wants Cthulhu to be president of the United States instead of Bush and a lawsuit of the old ones against Microsoft:
With this suit We will show that Windows ‘95, and to a lesser extent
all of the Microsoft range of products, infringe upon the recognised
“look-and-feel” of the Elder Gods, for the following reasons:
o Windows ‘95 is a crawling abomination from the darkest pits of Hell;
o No man can be in it’s presence for too long without being driven into
gibbering insanity;
o A cult who worship it exist in secret amongst the mortal herd;
o Those who associate with it for too long develop common physical
characteristics, to wit: pale, clammy skin, bulging eyes, generally
unkempt physical appearance, tendency towards nocturnal living, change
in diet to that which normal men do not eat (in your case tacos,
burgers and Jolt Coke; in Ours, human flesh, Fungi of Yuggoth and the
blood of Alien Gods);
o Mysterious tomes that purport to explain this phenomenon are reputed
to exist; they are bound in an unnatural substance and only available
at a terrible cost to the user.
o The Microsoft range of products seek to utterly dominate the world,
and force all who dwell there to live in eternal damnation.
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