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Dinkoism (), the Dinkoist religion, or Dinkamatham is a
parody religion A parody religion or mock religion is a belief system that challenges the spiritual convictions of others, often through humor, satire, or burlesque (literary ridicule). Often constructed to achieve a specific purpose related to another belief sy ...
and
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that emerged and evolved on
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s organized by independent welfare groups in the Indian state of
Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
. Adherents describe Dinkoism as a genuine religion.


History

According to a report in ''
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'', Dinkoism was established in 2008 in Kerala by a group of
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with the intention of ridiculing "the absurdity of blind religious faith". The community planned to become politically active. A report in ''
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'' said Dinkoism is gaining members through Facebook. The
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described Dinkoism in 2016 as an atheist movement with significant growth on social media.


Description

The religion purports to worship
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, a comic book character. Dinkoists celebrate the character—a
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mouse that appeared in 1983 in defunct
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-language children's magazine ''
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''—as their God for the purpose of exposing superstitions and fallacies and practices of traditional religions.


Events and protests

The concept of Dinkoism has spread through the social media but the movement has organised protest events. On January 30, 2016, a group of Dinkoists, under the banner of ''Mooshikasena'' (Rat Army) held a mock protest in front of Dhe Puttu restaurant owned by popular actor
Dileep Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan Pillai, better known by his stage name Dileep, is an Indian actor, producer, and businessman who predominantly works in the Malayalam film industry. He has acted in more than 150 films and has won several awards, inc ...
alleging his upcoming film Professor Dinkan hurt their religious sentiments, mocking similar protests happening worldwide. Earlier Dinkoism was in news when an expatriate Dinkoist living in California obtained a license plate with the inscription DINKAN for his car, out of his devotion for Dinkan. In 2016, J. Devika wrote an article about the concept of Dinkoism and the logic of the market.


Conferences

Dinkoists of Kozhikode organised a conference at the Sports Council Hall,
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on March 20, 2016. They organised a variety of entertainments with a theme of
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. E. A. Jabbar, a prominent rationalist, endorsed Dinkoism. In April 2016, 25,000 Dinkoists were expected to gather for a convention called a "Dinkamatha Maha Sammelanam" to "present their rights as a minority community". Dinkoists have received threatening messages as well as opposition from believers of other religions.


See also

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Evolution as fact and theory Many scientists and philosophers of science have described evolution as fact and theory, a phrase which was used as the title of an article by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould in 1981. He describes fact in science as meaning data, not known with ...
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Fideism Fideism () is an epistemological theory which maintains that faith is independent of reason, or that reason and faith are hostile to each other and faith is superior at arriving at particular truths (see natural theology). The word ''fideism'' c ...
* Flying Spaghetti Monster * Intelligent falling *
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Mighty Mouse Mighty Mouse is an American animated anthropomorphic superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. The character was originally called Super Mouse, and made his debut in the 1942 short ''The Mouse of Tomorro ...
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Out Campaign The Out Campaign is a public awareness initiative for freethought and atheism in the US. It was initiated by Robin Elisabeth Cornwell, and is endorsed by Richard Dawkins, a prominent atheist. The campaign aims to create more openness about being ...
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Parody religion A parody religion or mock religion is a belief system that challenges the spiritual convictions of others, often through humor, satire, or burlesque (literary ridicule). Often constructed to achieve a specific purpose related to another belief sy ...
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Reductio ad absurdum In logic, (Latin for "reduction to absurdity"), also known as (Latin for "argument to absurdity") or ''apagogical arguments'', is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absu ...
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Religious satire Religious satire is a form of satire that refers to religious beliefs and can take the form of texts, plays, films, and parody. From the earliest times, at least since the plays of Aristophanes, religion has been one of the three primary topics ...
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Theological noncognitivism Theological noncognitivism is the non-theist position that religious language, particularly theological terminology such as "God", is not intelligible or meaningful, and thus sentences like "God exists" are cognitively meaningless. It may be c ...


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