Religious Doomsday Cult to Invade New York City

The Church of the SubGenius is coming to New York City on Saturday, October 9. The city is bracing itself for the biggest psychic shock wave since the legendary New York Devival of 1997. Predictions for the event have revealed the city will never be the same.

Members of the controversial cult will be gathering for a religious Devival designed to promote the cause of Slack, Abnormality, and the Word of Church founder J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. SubGenius Devivals are spiritual events unlike any other, and audience attendance is expected to reach capacity crowds.

Planned stage events at the Devival include religious preaching and rock music by scheduled performers. Attendees at the event include Reverend Ivan Stang, The NYC Go F[CENSORED] Yourselves Clench, Pope Black (recently allowed to re-enter the United States after a long exile in Europe), Phat Man Dee, dubstep master DJ 2B, and Rev. Bleepo Abernathy.

The event will take place on October 9th, at the Wonderland Collective in Astoria, Queens ( http://www.wonderlandny.com ). Admission is $10 per person. Doors open for the Devival at 8:00 PM.

Expected blasphemies at the event will include religious preaching and ranting, healings and sickenings, a traditional Short Duration Mass Marriage (and one marriage sanctioned by the State of New York), bands, alcoholic beverages, electronic music and noise, possessions, exorcisms, and tithing for religious writings and garb. New York cells of the Tea Party are expected to hold protests due to the fact that the Devival will take place within striking distance of Ground Zero.

The Church of the SubGenius has been no stranger to controversy since its foundation, and the upcoming Devival 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).

Detailed information about the upcoming Devival can be found on at the official SubGenius Web site:

http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html

Facebook page for the NYC Devival: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134522369924229

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

http://www.subgenius.com

Photographers, entertainers, production companies, radio broadcasters, and all media producers are encouraged to contact Rev. Ivan Stang at the Church's Cleveland, Ohio headquarters at 1-888-669-2323.