8. The Church Of All Worlds
The Church of All Worlds is a religion founded by Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and his wife Morning Glory, in 1962. The religion quickly evolved from a group of friends and lovers who were in part inspired by a fictional religion of the same name in the science fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein; the church’s mythology includes science fiction to this day. Many of their ritual celebrations are centered on the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece.
They recognize “Gaea,” the Earth Mother Goddess and the Father God, as well as the realm of Faeries and the deities of many other pantheons. Following the tradition of using fiction as a basis for his ideas, Zell-Ravenheart recently founded The Grey School of Wizardry inspired in part by Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the school in the Harry Potter novels.
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