"Advice god"
meme series is a collection of memes featuring the image of the Judo-Christian
god, as depicted in Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam centered in the
background used for the meme series "advice animals" (colorful
triangles). During this study, 12 memes were chosen from meme websites (Such
as: memegenrator.net, knowyourmeme.com, ranker.com.) as
well as a Facebook group and
a blog which featured the meme.
The sampling strategy was focused on representing two aspects: The memes'
construction process and memes which had audience reactions (that is, memes published in the blog and Facebook page). The focus was to explore the
presentation of religion in these anti-religious memes.
As noted, these memes
present god as an ethically questionable entity and of religion as
contradictory and ridiculous. One clear example of that is the title of the ranker.com page
presenting the memes: "God is an Epic Troll: The Best of the Advice God
Meme".
Through the process of
spreading, creating and commenting on these memes, users take part in embedding
meaning to religion – albeit, a negative one. Therefore, one of the key
findings of this study is the need to distinguish between memes about religion and
religious memes. The above added meme tries to tackle this understanding by
asking if any meme with a religious symbol, is necessary a religious meme.
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