Jul 16, 2009
Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment
Feral House’s new book on the Process Church of the Final Judgement, Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment by Timothy Wyllie is out, and Feral House has a site up with various excerpts and photos.
The book includes the recollections of various former Process members, and reproduces many rare Church documents. I can’t wait to own this.
Previous coverage of the Process here
Related posts (autogenerated):
- 500 page of Process Church of the Final Judgment internal documents
- Reenactment of the Process Church of the Final Judgment Processional
- Hunter S. Thompson documentary from 1978 – Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision
- Three of Scientology’s elite parishioners keep faith, but leave the church
- Elizabeth Prophet, 70, Church Founder, Is Dead
Interesting…I was not familiar with this church before now (apparently I missed all of your other posts relating to it) After reading a brief description of the church on Wikipedia, I find their views on Jehovah, Lucifer and Satan to be unusual and interesting, especially the following line:
“Their belief is that Satan will become reconciled to Christ, and together will come [sic] at the end of the world to judge humanity, Christ to judge and Satan to execute judgment.” The image of the two becoming reconciled instantly brings to mind the image of the yin-yang, although I wonder where that leaves poor Lucifer in this particular cosmic scheme?
I still find the idea of supposedly “enlightened higher beings” who have the audacity to judge their “lowly and unenlightened creations” to be pretentious and outrageous: “We created you with serious design flaws and we are now going to judge you for said flaws without mercy or reason…” PLEASE!
But this is definitely an interesting take on that old and tired yarn…
Long ago I read an interview with DeGrimston in a TOPY zine. Someone found his phone number in a phone book and called him. He answered questions, including questions about his being part of a sinister murderous underground. ‘Well, would I have my phone number in the book if that were true? Would I be talking to you now?’ He laughed and said it wasn’t true. Just like a member of a sinister murderous underground would!
DeGrimston –> DeGroot.
Make that DeGrimston — DeGroot
Looking forward to getting my hands on this one too…
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