What do you consider to be the most bizarre beliefs you've ever heard?

OTHER THAN beliefs or lack of beliefs about the existence of a god (if that's your answer, pick the second most bizarre, please).

Also, I'm talking about a single beliefs, not an entire belief system or religion.

For example, "Having sex with a virgin can cure AIDs", or "Noah got billions of species on to one boat," qualify.

"Christianity," or "Islam," or "Scientology," don't.

Thanks.

Prophet Dawkins - like I said, specific beliefs. Which beliefs within Christianity are the most bizarre to you?

When one of my friends got married at the good-and-ready age of 38, she solemnly informed her grandmother: "Grandma, I took your advice."

"What advice was that, dear?"

"You told me never to knit socks for a man because if I did he would never marry me. So I didn't, and now I'm married."

"Well, of course, dear."

Well, scientology's guy in the volcano thing IS pretty weird... sorry... then I'll have to go with...

american indians are direct decendents of jewish immigrants...

This God had to kill himself as a sacrifice to himself so that he could forgive himself for creating a likeness of himself.

What?

big bangs, monkeys to man, rosie is hot, string theory.

Any supernatural belief is bizarre because there is absolutely no evidence of supernatural acts in this world. That and any belief that depends on 'faith'.
Oh and racism. I hate that crap.

That there's a secret handshake to get into heaven.

Um, God ought to know whether you deserve in or out, regardless of handshake. What if you get nervous and forget?

Christianity

Reason : "the amount of fiction"

that I can't redeem those damn frequent flyer milage on the ufo when rapture comes in 2012

sacred cows and sacred rats that are honored by starving people.

That of all the things god created a midget first and not a can of spaghetti O's.

The belief that all cultures are inherently the same, none are better than the other. This has caused many foolish beliefs to fester into pop culture, causing a lot of men to actually think loud obnoxious women like Bette Midler and Rosie O'Donnell are attractive.

catholicism, by far....it kills me how something so satanic and so pagan could be thought of to be biblical by so many millions of people boggles my mind!

The category of beliefs that leads people to conclude that the creator of the universe will find a parking space for them on demand. The whole notion that THEY will win any zero-sum game because God will make it so.

CD

I'd have to say transubstantiation. I mean it's just weird. They say OK have a wafer and some wine, now we're gonna turn it into flesh and blood? Isn't that called cannibalism?

That there is a record for every human that has ever lived on the astral plane called the akashic records. I think I believe it too. I would like to look at mine.

People who take ancient texts like the Bible literally. Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that, for instance, the story of the Tower of Babel was merely a parable. Scientology's got this thing about an evil alien xemu who lived 70 million years ago -- that's pretty wacky too.

the belief that man evolved from ape yet there are no apes that show the evolving process of ape to man (were some apes just stupid and haven't made any progress since the beginning of written history? i'll never understand this)

i guess i'll go for the holy underwear & life after death on your own planet....what the!?

There are so many!

Marry two frogs to get plenty of rain.

Marry two trees to get more rain.

Conduct pujas or homems for rain.

Human sacrifice for fertility and so on...

The Big Bang theory. If man came from monkey's and man exist today why do we still have monkey's

Francine