Mythical universes of third-millennium religious movements : the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Matrixism

The article pertains to two third-millennium religious movements: the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Matrixism. There is no commonly agreed way of classifying these phenomena. They can be labelled as: invented religions, fiction-based religions, or joke religions. The analysis of Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Wachowskis’ trilogy together with the internet-based religious movement derived from it, provide explanations regarding cosmological questions. The aim of this text is to examine mythical cosmoses they created.