Actually quite a lot of religions start with multiple people being in on the joke scam Scientology Mormonism Islam etc You would be extremely hard pressed to figure out if when Discordia got real followers as its taken a very post modern approach but Discordia has had a very significant influence on Wicca Neo paganism etc Its just not a black whie issue all it takes is for some people who really want to believe in a god to descide that Christianity sucks and FSM is better in some post modernist sense