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Hop on over to the Internet's Universal Translator Assistant Project, and you can translate Psalms and key biblical passages into Klingon, Romulan and Vulcan.
If you need a little lesson: "JoH'a' 'oH wIj DevwI' jIH DIchDaq Hutlh pagh." That's Klingon for, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want."
Now, how about a nice evening of Klingon karaoke.
Evangelical Elvis: Not only can you worship Elvis, there are several different denominations.
The First Presleyterian Church of Elvis the Divine advances the theology of Elvisivity. The 24-Hour Church of Elvis in Oregon isn't a church and it isn't even open around the clock. But does claim to be the world's first coin-operated art gallery and boasts a prayer wheel with alternating images of Jesus and Elvis.
In Las Vegas, several wedding chapels offer Elvis clones to preside over nuptials.
But perhaps the most inspirational is preacher Gary Stone, 54, of Indiana, who is better known to church groups as Evangelical Elvis. He spreads the Gospel and sings in a white rhinestone jumpsuit, cape and boots.
"Elvis would be older than some of the nursing home people I've performed for," Stone says. "People forget, he was a charitable man who loved gospel music."
Marriage on Tap: There's one good thing if you wake up with a hangover and find that you've been married by the Church of Beer. You don't have to wonder what you were drinking.
Beer Church founder and "pilsner pope" Kendall Jones says his Internet institution boasts more than 2,600 priests. To perform a Beer Church wedding, you must also be legally ordained by Universal Life Church.
Contrary to popular belief, Beer Church priests are not allowed to be drunk on duty. But, Jones warns, you must have "a devout love of beer."
Hurray for Holy Wood: You can't have a debate over who's the worst filmmaker ever without mentioning Ed Wood, the director of such cult classics as Plan 9 From Outer Space and Glen or Glenda.
The Wood opus so impressed Steve Galindo, a 24-year-old college student from Arizona, that he formed the Internet's Church of the Heavenly Wood, which claims more than 5,000 members.