The United Church of Bacon is an atheist /skeptic philosophical parody church whose main goals are social progress and raising money for other charities, founded in 2010, by atheist John Whiteside and a group of friends.[1][2] The church offers all kinds of traditional religious services including weddings, baptisms and funerals.[3] Its founder chose a strange name for the church, and its belief in Bacon,[4] as a social critique that all churches have strange beliefs, seen from the outside.[5] The church opposes special privileges to religions on the grounds that religious people are somehow superior to inferior people for having strange beliefs.[6] The church promotes separation of church and state, science education and critical thinking, and an end to discrimination against atheists. The official symbol of the organization is two pieces of bacon praying with the sun in the background.[7]
