Any of y'all know about Discordianism? The religion of worshippers of the goddess Eris? It has been described as either a religion disguised as a joke, or a joke disguised as a religion; can't tell which. There's a Discordian parable which seems to the point here:

One day Malaclypse the Younger asked the messenger spirit St. Gulik to approach the Goddess and request her presence for some desperate advice. Shortly afterwords the radio came on by itself, and an ethereal female voice said "Yes?"
"O Eris! Blessed Mother of Man! Queen of Chaos! Daughter of Discord! Concubine of Confusion! O! Exquisite Lady, I beseech You to lift a heavy burden from my heart!"
"What bothers you Mal? You don't sound well."
"I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe."
"What's the matter with that, if it's what you want?"
"But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it."
"Oh. Well, then stop."
At which moment She turned herself into an aspirin commercial and left the Polyfather stranded alone with his species.

clint keller