[C Elegans]

Now I have made a Google search for "Furry" and "religion". I didn't find many pages mentioning this, most of the hits contained the phrase "Furry is not a religion" but instead a lifestyle or fandom. I found three pages who mentioned that Furries could have totem animals "like Native North American cultures" but there was no description that supported these totem animals meant the same as in native North American cultures, or are surrounded by the same spiritual contex. On the contrary, one site said that you can choose a totem animal depending on if you like the animal and/or find it cute and on another site, a person described how he found his totem animals by "just feeling" they were right for him. Nothing about religion. The third site was the same as Hill linked to.

Regarding history, most pages I found gave a history back to web fan cultures in the 1980's, some to the 1960's. I found one page who gave a history back to ancient Egypt:
http://www.perrirhoades.furtopia.org/Furry.html#5

The arguments presented for this was however the similar to what Hill have already posted. I quote from the webpage:

"Furries go back to mythological times. Many gods of early civilizations were anthropomorphic characters. Furries figure prominently in ancient Egyptian art, Native American art, and the art of many other ancient cultures.

Furries also figure prominently in folklore and fairytales, going back hundreds of years. Actually, if you want to get technical about it, there are Furries in The Bible.

Historically, Furries have just always been around.

This is a clear example of overinclusive use of a term, as I described in my post above. The author of this webpage takes a general human behaviour (anthropomorphisism) and single it out as a marker for a contemporary fandom subculture (Furry) and claims ancient Egypt art was Furry. This effectively makes any discussion meaningless, since any term in language can mean anything then. If this is the level of the present discussion, we ought to discuss semantics instead.

Since I didn't find anything substantial when I searched for "Furry" and "religion", I also did a search for only "Furry", but then I got so much cartoon porn pictures of thong-clad cats with human breasts stroking their nipples, so I frankly did not have the patience to wade through all that. Instead, I hope Hill and/or Inter will provide more information that support the claim there is a Furry religion that fulfils the criteria for religion.