I am one of those people.

Does having a one-man religion that you just follow yourself count?

I think there are people who need to believe in something outside of themselves and because religions are the most common go to, yet older ones seem to not quite line up with today's thinking particularly in the states, creating newer ones or patching bits and pieces that make sense just seems the next logical step to them.

My thoughts on it, if it helps them get through the day and they don't put it on anyone else, I really don't care.

I consider myself an eclectic pagan. To me it's more a spiritual mishmash of activities that help me connect to my inner self as well as to the natural world around me. I don't pray. I occasionally will do a ritual if I feel the need. Most importantly, at least to me, I don't push it on anyone else. No harm, no foul.

If what I do keeps me calm and centered, and helps me learn to not beat the hell out of some idiot who desperately deserves it, I think it's a grand thing.

I am atheist pagan. I don't consider it a religion. I feel like it is being more in touch with the earth. I don't do magic or cast spells. I don't worship any of the old gods or goddesses. I like and respect them for what they are. Archetypes to explain the world around them, the unexplainable to the primitive people. People ask me if I'm Wiccan. I am not. It is as much of an organized religion with all the things that are required, as much as Christianity.

Some may be spoofs, some are folks, for whatever reason, needing to believe rather than taking the time, energy & intellectual rigor it takes to actually learn about our Universe. I have a limited formal education, but I never stop learning reading & growing & I find the findings that science makes awesome enough to fill that part of me that craves "awe". I do find 'Pastafarianism' funny as hell, tho, & claim it at times for the goof effect!

Lol all bullshit.

I have as much use for them as I do for any other religion.
Which is none.

Wica has been around for years. I've met some people who practice it over the years. My special needs daughter has dabbled in it but is also into crystals, psychic readings and new age.

Neo-religions are potentially just as bad as archeo-religions. (Is that a word? Or is now!) The only bright side is that for some "practioners" they are either protest religious (like the Flying Spaghetti Monster) or more a fandom thing (Jedi), rather than sincere beliefs.

Just like att opther religions, an "escape from freedom" (see Erich Fromm's book by the same name).

Bullshit by any other name still smells as rank.

It sounds like people are getting bored, so they come up with other things to idolize/worship.

I'm hoping this is what it looks like when releigon dies.