A never-ending blast of music is one of those necessities of the kitchen that chefs rely on to get through the dinner rush. Chef and his co-chefs often have a stack of available CDs higher than their stacks of dishes. They pulled an unlabeled disk out the other night and popped it in, and after a few minutes all kitchen activity stopped as they stood around, pork loin sizzling on the grill, knives and ladles paused in mid-air, as they listened to this track slack-jawed. The following track, not included in this post, is twenty-six minutes of high-speed chanting that sounds less like prayer and more like an auctioneer’s block. Good stuff.
The album, after some research, is of sermons delivered by Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet for The Summit Lighthouse, “an organization encompassing the branches of Church Universal and Triumphant, Summit University, Summit University Press, and Montessori International,” and is commonly listed as an American religious cult. Among their concerns, including UFOs and extraterrestrials and the “international capitalist-communist conspiracy,” was the perversion of rock music.
Proof that prayer works:
Invocation for Judgement Against the Destruction of Rock Music [click to listen]
After twenty years and lots of prayer from evangelical-cult nutjobs, most of these bands are dead in the water.
Proof that evangelist cults suck: Aside from mispronouncing David Bowie’s and Cyndi Lauper’s names, they thought Kenny Loggins, Hall & Oates, and Ghostbusters were important enough to include in this exercise.
yiiikes!!! years ago, morley safer did a piece on elizabeth clare prophet and the church of saint germain on 60 minutes. it was SCAAARY. they’re right up there with eckankar, rajneesh and the da-ists as far as being hypercapitalist cult nutjobs running like scared jackrabbits from the IRS.
and - *gulp!* - what’s this about connections to…..montessori??!!?? as in…..the SCHOOL??!!?? and to think we had friends who wanted us to put our kid in one…..
wikipedia doesn’t mention the montessori link, where’d you find it?
It’s under the wiki info for Elizabeth Clare Prophet. And, uh, I KNOW!! I was a Montessori kid and so was Ethan. I wonder if somebody just slipped that in or if it’s factual.
Here’s something on that.
No–AMI had no association with Elizabeth Clare Prophet.
Lauren, I bet you would make a good Montessori teacher with your past training and experiences.
Love, the um, song poem. I’m convinced. I shall get to burning my records as soon as I can find my lighter.
That was one of the best things I have ever heard. I love it when batshit crazy people record themselves preaching. It reminds me of Jonathan Bell the screaming evangelist/Canadian hairdresser.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=54jRfgtOLeM&feature=related
Down with Sheena Easton and that demon worshiping Huey Lewis!
Satan must have me by the throat!! I love Huey Lewis!!
That guy is nut! Herbie Hancock and Scooby doo were amoung the many ‘evils’ listed. Eesh.