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Atheists & Agnostics

onager

(9,356 posts)

3. Well, if we must turn ourselves into a religion...

Reply to trotsky (Original post)

Mon Dec 1, 2014, 07:03 PM

Dec 2014

I vote we go in the direction of two interesting Vietnamese sects, the Cao Dai and the Hoa Hao.

Cao Dai had a mind-blowing psychedelic "Vatican" in Tay Ninh, staffed by female Cardinals and featuring statues of Saint Victor Hugo and Saint Mark Twain.

Both sects had their own armies. You wanna see "militant atheists," we'll show you militant atheists...

Hoa Hao Self-Defense Forces: