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UFO Cult Predicts End Of The World In July 2008

Church of the Sub Genius

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Contact: The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. 1-216-320-9528
    Fax: (216) 320-9528
    stang@subgenius.com

    CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 4, 2008: The Church of the SubGenius has announced
    that the end of the world will take place on Saturday, July 5, 2008. In
    preparation for the fulfillment of this doomsday prophecy, the Church is
    requesting that all of its members participate in a bizarre religious ceremony
    taking place in upstate New York, during the final weekend before the arrival
    of the apocalypse.

    Since its inception in 1953, Church founder J.R. "Bob" Dobbs has predicted
    that a fleet of flying saucers will arrive at the beginning of July to destroy
    the worldwide Conspiracy against the Church of the SubGenius, while all
    ordained SubGenius ministers will be rescued by escape vessels piloted by the
    Alien Sex Goddesses, also known as the Xists.

    The Church is inviting all of its members worldwide to gather together for the
    final hours in Sherman, New York from Wednesday, July 2 to Sunday, July 6, at
    a clothing-optional outdoor campground called Brushwood Folklore Center. The
    first gathering at this compound took place in 1996, and the event has
    increased in size and participants each following year. 1998 was designated
    the first true "X-Day," and each successive year has added one to the total.
    This year's celebration in 2008 is X-Day 11, or X-Day XI.

    The Church has been engaged in a massive recruitment campaign to increase the
    numbers of its membership before the arrival of the Xists. According to Church
    records, the organization currently has approximately 100,000 members
    worldwide. SubGenius recruitment has been especially dedicated among the ranks
    of people who refuse to conform to the norms of society, including
    disbelievers, blasphemers, pranksters, rebels, hackers, pornographers, geeks,
    and outcasts.

    The Church is seeking underground bands, indie rockers, performance artists,
    and performers and producers from the adult entertainment industry, because
    sexual freedom has been an important part of Church doctrine from the start.
    X-Day will be a celebration of free expression, performance art, rock and
    roll, pornography, and adult entertainment; and certain parts of the event
    will be restricted to adults only. Only ordained ministers of the Church of
    the SubGenius are allowed at the event, but the Church is accepting
    memberships at its standard rate of $30 up until the final hours of July 4.

    The Church of the SubGenius has been no stranger to controversy since its
    foundation, and the upcoming X-Day celebration promises to be no different. In
    the late 1980s, members of the Church were accused of spreading a virus in
    Macintosh computers known as the "Peace Virus." Numerous articles have been
    written on the Church in such noteworthy publications as the New York Times,
    Washington Post, Wired Online, Boston Globe, U.S. News and World Report; and
    broadcast reports have been produced by CNN and NPR. In April 1999, officials
    of the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts shut down an official SubGenius
    Devival gathering in the belief that the Church was affiliated with the
    Trenchcoat Mafia (the organization blamed for the Columbine high school
    shootings), though authorities later realized the association was mistaken. In
    its January 1, 2000 issue, a Time magazine poll declared J.R. "Bob" Dobbs the
    biggest fraud of the 20th century.

    The Church received additional media attention in 2006 when one of its
    high-ranking members, known in SubGenius circles as Reverend Mary Magdalen,
    became involved in a legal battle for custody of her son due to her membership
    in the Church. This case has been covered in such popular online sites as
    Boing Boing, Fark, and Wikinews (Wikipedia's news reporting service). Reverend
    Magdalen is being represented by the law firm of Lipsitz Green Fahringer Roll
    Salisbury & Cambria, LLP.

    Detailed information about X-Day can be found on the World Wide Web at the
    X-Day Web site:

    http://www.modemac.com/x-day

    The official home page of the Church of the SubGenius can be found at:

    http://www.subgenius.com

    Reverend Mary Magdalen's custody case:

    http://www.modemac.com/wiki/Reverend_Magdalen

    Photographers, entertainers, production companies, radio broadcasters, and all
    media producers are encouraged to contact the Church at its Cleveland, Ohio
    headquarters at 1-216-320-9528.
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