# Religion Religion is a broad cultural topic catalogued on Know Your Meme that covers how belief systems appear across internet culture, from Advice God image macros to Coexist bumper stickers and the file-sharing faith Kopimism. The entry groups the online history of major faiths, atheist debates, and joke religions into one hub, and it became a reference point during the 2015 Religious Freedom Restoration Act debates. ## Origin Religion itself long predates the internet. Anthropologists point to ritual burial in Qafzeh cave around 100,000 years ago as one of the earliest known religious acts, and the Sumerian Kesh Temple Hymn from roughly 2600 B.C. as the oldest surviving religious text[1]. The KYM topic page pulls these anthropological anchors into a single reference frame alongside the modern faiths people are most likely to meme about, listed as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Shintoism, and Taoism[1]. The online meme cluster around religion took shape in the late 2000s and early 2010s as advice-animal macros, atheist YouTube channels, and Coexist merchandise spread in parallel[2]. Urban Dictionary entries from the same window reflect the split tone of that period, with some definitions defending religion and others openly bashing it, which is exactly the tension the memes ran on[2]. - **Platform:** Know Your Meme (topic entry) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2013 ## Overview As a Know Your Meme topic, Religion collects the ways faith, doctrine, and spiritual identity show up across meme culture[1]. That includes advice-animal formats like Advice God, which pairs a Michelangelo painting of the Christian God with captions poking at biblical contradictions, and the Coexist symbol set that mashes together icons for Islam, peace, evolution, Judaism, neo-paganism, Buddhism, and Christianity into a single word used on shirts and bumper stickers[1]. The entry also tracks joke or fringe faiths that became internet fixtures, including Kopimism, a Sweden-recognized religion built around free file-sharing, and Otherkin, an online community whose members identify as non-human beings. Debates about atheism sit alongside these, since online atheist spaces often frame their position against the same holidays, texts, and rituals the meme formats target[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Religion? On Know Your Meme, Religion is a topic entry that groups meme formats, communities, and controversies tied to belief systems, from Advice God to Coexist to Kopimism[1]. ### Where did Religion come from? Religion as a practice traces back at least 100,000 years to ritual burials at Qafzeh cave, with the Sumerian Kesh Temple Hymn of about 2600 B.C. being the oldest known religious text[1]. ### What does Religion mean? Urban Dictionary describes religion as a set of core beliefs and devotion to a higher power, with entries noting the world's largest faiths include Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism[2]. ### How do you use Religion? Online, religion typically shows up through image macros like Advice God that caption a Michelangelo painting with jabs at scripture, and through symbol mashups like the Coexist design used on shirts and stickers[1]. ### Is Religion still popular? Religion is a classic KYM topic that stays active as a hub linking to formats like Atheism, Coexist, and Kopimism, though it is not a currently trending meme in itself[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT9RkvkIj5I]() 2. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Religion]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/religion]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r-e2NDSTuE]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP3eKT1z28c]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge071m9bGeY]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/religion Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library