{"id":1097,"date":"2010-04-10T23:32:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T03:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2010-04-10T23:32:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T03:32:13","slug":"ufo-cult-awaits-doomsday-for-15th-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/04\/10\/ufo-cult-awaits-doomsday-for-15th-time\/","title":{"rendered":"UFO Cult Awaits Doomsday For 15th Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100408subgeniuschurch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1098 alignnone\" title=\"20100408subgeniuschurch\" src=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/20100408subgeniuschurch-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, April 8, 2010 16:09 GMT<\/p>\n<p>CLEVELAND (Wireless Flash &#8211; FlashNews) \u2013 A Cleveland-based UFO cult claims Doomsday is finally coming after years of false alarms.<\/p>\n<p>The Church of the Subgenius is a satirical \u201cchurch\u201d supposedly founded by a man named\u00a0<strong>J.R. \u201cBob\u201d Dobbs<\/strong> in 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Rev. Ivan Stang runs the parody cult, which has thousands of members who pay $30 to get in and receive \u201cimportant-looking documents filled with made-up words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On July 5, Subgenius will host \u201cX-Day\u201d in New York, a bizarre ceremony to celebrate the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, they predict that Armageddon will come on July 5 and members will be saved by flying saucers carrying \u201calien sex goddesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These aliens will pleasure members for eternity, or Stang says they get triple their Church dues back.<\/p>\n<p>He calls the party one last hurrah among \u201cnerdy boys\u201d and \u201cweirdos,\u201d though he\u2019d be surprised if UFOs actually came.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve been waiting for the aliens for 15 years straight, disappointing those who \u201ctruly believe\u201d time after time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Copyright 2010\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/flashnews.com\/\">Wireless Flash News Inc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashnews.com\/news\/wfn3100408J15757.html\">http:\/\/www.flashnews.com\/news\/wfn3100408J15757.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, April 8, 2010 16:09 GMT CLEVELAND (Wireless Flash &#8211; FlashNews) \u2013 A Cleveland-based UFO cult claims Doomsday is finally coming after years of false alarms. The Church of the Subgenius is a satirical \u201cchurch\u201d supposedly founded by a man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2010\/04\/10\/ufo-cult-awaits-doomsday-for-15th-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}