 Other terms used to describe the Church include "faux cult", "[postmodern] cult", "satirical pseudoreligion", "sophisticated joke religion", "anti-religion religion", and "high parody of cultdom".Members of the Church, however, have consistently maintained that they practice a religion.Stang has described the group as both "satire and a real stupid religion", and contends that it is more honest about its nature than are other religions.