You Could Make a Religion Out of This

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You Could Make a Religion Out of This is a quote used by Bill Wurtz in his video The History of the Entire World. The phrase has become the origin of many jokes and videos, much like The Sun is a Deadly Lazer.

Origin

On May 10, 2017, Bill Wurtz uploaded "history of the entire world, i guess"^[1] as a sequel to his previous video, History of Japan. In it, he jokingly goes over what happened over history to shape the Earth, including the start of five religions. The first four times he discusses religion, it is for Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. Once he is done going over what happened to start the beliefs, he says "You could make a religion out of this".
The last time he says the line, he is talking about the Cult of the Supreme Being, a failed religion started by Robespierre to try to fight the French government. When Bill Wurtz goes over Robespierre and tries to say "you could make a religion out of this", he is interrupted with a "no don't" to symbolize the religion not taking off.^[5] The video has over 32 million views as of January 23th, 2018.

Spread

Two days after the original video as uploaded, Hexagon – Nebulous uploaded a sound clip onto YouTube of Bill Wurtz saying the phrase. It has over 6,000 views (shown below, left).^[2] Later, on the same day, Meteorite Enzo uploaded a compilation all the times Wurtz said "We could make a religion out of this." This video has over 100,000 views (shown below, right).

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Eventually, the phrase became subject to remixes. One example is one with We Are Number One. This has 70,000 views (shown below).^[4]

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