Cliveism

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Cliveism, also known as the Clive Clan Deluxe (>THOUGH nobody ever calls it by that) is the one true religion, and the central focus of this wiki, the friend group behind it, and various stories such as Obama & Co. It is a religion dedicated to worshipping and reveering Clive Handforth fron LittleBigPlanet, as he is the one true god and the ruler and creator of the entire omniverse. People who practice the religion are known as Cliveists or, less commonly, Clivians. Its antithesis is Avalonism, a wicked religion dedictated to the worship of the most evil entity of all time, Avalon Centrifuge.
== History ==
Cliveism was founded the 8th of January, 2021 by ZaikouOfficial, in collaboration with Kittyramp, Captain-Adorable and Sackboi1211 (all four being known as The Original Cliveism Members), although the idea far preceeds that all the way back to the 1st of July, 2020 according to a comment he made on his LittleBigPlanet profile. The former date coincides with the release of the "Clive Clan Deluxe (Cliveism)" level posted on Zaikou's profile, which acted as the introduction to Cliveism and the requirements to join it. The idea of Cliveism came about when a few days earlier, while Cap joined Zaikou's pod (Kitty was also there), they both noticed how they both (as in Cap and Zaikou) had the Clive costume on, which then caused Kitty to also change into the Clive costume to fit it. Zaikou was eventually reminded of the existence of a Marlon Random religion, and so with the costume situation in mind, he was inspired to form the religion of Cliveism. The level gained a moderate level of notiriety, being at the top of the "Cool levels" category on LittleBigPlanet 2 for a while and having a few levels made about it, both by people who opposed and supported it. A sequel level was planned, where you went out and killed Avalon on Clive's behalf, but that sadly never came to be finished.
After some point in late January or February, definitely early 2021 though, Cliveism came to be considered a "dead meme", which led to the founders of Cliveism (mostly reluctantly Zaikou, he was admittedly kinda internally salty about it) trying to form new gangs which would replace it, such as Neon Boys, Tophat Gang (not to be confused with the mfs from Henry Stickmin) and Furhat Gang. Ironically, Cliveism eventually outlived all of these (I mean obviously if there's an entire wiki dedicated about it). Sometime in early 2021 as well, Sackboi founded Neo-Cliveism, an attempt to revive Cliveism, thought mostly thanks to issues we'll get into a bit, it didn't last long. Cliveism did lay a bit dormant throughout most of mid-2021 due to the fact the LBP servers were under maintenance thanks to several DDoS attacks (which sadly led to them being shut down, save for the LBP3 PS4 servers, so fuck you Jon), but was still floating around between the people behind it via shit like PS3 Messages (this is how Obama & Co. came to be, for example).
On the 14th of June, 2021, the Official Cliveism Discord Server was created by Cap, which now serves as the main place where people of the Cliveist faith hang out together. Months later, r/CliveAppreciation and r/AvalonHate are created by Cap on the 6th of September, the former acting as the main sub for Cliveism. Other subreddits came to be created later on, such as r/Spamfet and r/cliveisgod, although neither are particularly Cliveist-centric.
Also some time in late 2021, a group of people led by Neiltoons (or something like that idfk) tried to properly revive Cliveism on LittleBigPlanet 3, which was even given the blessing of Zaikou, though this movement had a little bit of success. Funnily enough, Neiltoons and most of the people behind the movement were completely random people that had no relation to Zaikou or any of the founders prior to the PS4 servers being back up.
Finally, on the 22nd of March, 2023, Zaikou created The Official Cliveism Wiki, which is currently where you're reading this piece of information. 
== Requirements to join ==
As detailed in the Clive Clan Deluxe level, requirements to join the religion of Cliveism (or in other words, to be Clivitised) include:
# Accepting Clive as your Lord and Saviour (Kind of a no duh in this case)
# Kill every Avalonist you encounter to stop them from spreading their heinous religion
# On LittleBigPlanet, play using the Clive costume, and heart every The Factory of a Better Tomorrow level, song, sticker, item, decoration, and material.
# Make your profile picture and bio all about Clive on LittleBigPlanet.
# Do 10 daily prayers to Clive, his wife, Eve Silva Paragorica, and their son Evide Paraforth (the latter two are somewhat optional though).
# Read at least one chapter of the Holy Clible daily.
# Accept Larry Da Vinci, Victoria Von Bathysphere, Dr. Herbert Higginbotham and Zaikou as prophets of Cliveism (the fact none of the other original Cliveism members are included is very telling).
# Attend Cliveist churches regularly.
== Sects, Branches, Revivals, etc. ==
Like any good religion, Cliveism has several of it's own sects. These include:
=== Marionist Cliveism ===
A sect of Cliveism which revered Mario of being a prophet of Cliveism. This was either created by Zaikou, Sackboi or one of the latter's brothers, and unfortunately went absolutely nowhere lmao.
=== Da Vincism ===
A sect of Cliveism dedicated to revering Larry Da Vinci. It was founded by Captain-Adorable on his alt account, C_Adorable_The_2, and had a level dedicated to it named "bruh man" which was kinda just a parody of the Clive Clan Deluxe level. This was back when Cap pretty much made his alt's identity all about Da Vinci for some reason. The religion is pretty much the same as normal Cliveism (go to church often and wear the Da Vinci costume, that kinda stuff) but replaced with Da Vinci instead of Clive.
=== Neo-Cliveism ===
As mentioned before, this was an attempt to revive Cliveism in the LittleBigPlanet sphere spearheaded by Sackboi. Moderately successful, although again, the DDoS attacks and eventual server shutdowns halted any further progress. It also had a mostly futuristic aesthetic as far as I know, but that's the most of it.
=== Neiltoon's revival ===
Similar deal to Neo-Cliveism, already kinda explained the whole deal with it so don't feel the need to repeat myself.
== Trivia ==
* Although Cliveism is mainly inspired by religions like Christianity, which is monotheistic, the religion is more accurately described as henotheistic since it acknowledges several other deity or deity-like figures, but reveres mainly Clive as the supreme deity.
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