I got this from The Browser newsletter, which summarizes:
The twelve adherents of Faithism, perhaps the smallest religion in the world, hold weekly prayer meetings on Skype to study their holy book, Oahspe, dictated by angels in 1881 to a New York dentist called John Ballou Newbrough. Newbrough’s first followers set up a vegetarian commune in New Mexico to raise 10,000 orphaned babies, but collected only 28.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 24.5 ms ] threadThe twelve adherents of Faithism, perhaps the smallest religion in the world, hold weekly prayer meetings on Skype to study their holy book, Oahspe, dictated by angels in 1881 to a New York dentist called John Ballou Newbrough. Newbrough’s first followers set up a vegetarian commune in New Mexico to raise 10,000 orphaned babies, but collected only 28.
The Wikipedia page is suprisingly detailed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahspe:_A_New_Bible and includes interesting links like
http://oahspecollegeuniversity.com/
and the remarkable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3KsIRoTugs - I mean, it has an Oahspe rap soundtrack that's actually rather good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3KsIRoTugs#t=5m50s
Cough up, Cormack!