* Church of the SubGenius

Devo actively embraced the Church of the SubGenius.

* Church of the SubGenius – A half-serious / half-humorous non-mainstream religion of which several of the band are members.

* X-Day ( Church of the SubGenius )

The face of J. R. " Bob " Dobbs was split across the first two volumes, despite the Church of the SubGenius not being featured in the novel ( although Wilson had become a member ).

A similar Internet phenomenon exists surrounding the Church of the SubGenius.

Black claimed it was a member of the Church of the SubGenius, John Hagen-Brenner, who sent him an " improvised explosive device consisting of an audio cassette holder wired with four cadmium-type batteries, four flashbulbs, and five firecrackers ", as described in the charging document filed in Federal District Court.

The Yeti is also very prominent in the Book of the SubGenius and other literature by the Church of the SubGenius.

The Church of the SubGenius is a " parody religion " organization that satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, unidentified flying objects, and popular culture.

Originally based in Dallas, Texas, the Church of the SubGenius gained prominence in the 1980s and 1990s and maintains an active presence on the Internet.

The Church of the SubGenius was founded by Ivan Stang ( né Doug Smith ) and Philo Drummond, who initially established the SubGenius foundation.

Because of its similarities to the tenets of Discordianism, The Church of the SubGenius is often described as a syncretic offshoot of that belief.

However, Hubbard and Scientology's history goes even farther back in time than the Church of the SubGenius.

The Church of the SubGenius likely used Scientology double-talk as a parodic springboard for the double-talk in the mid-1980s first edit of its groundbreaking " Arise " video and other SubGenius productions.

A variety of other SubGenius videos have subsequently been produced, all available on the official Church of the SubGenius Web site.

The Church of the SubGenius is known for a standing offer that stems from the ordainment fee: " Eternal Salvation or TRIPLE Your Money Back!

J. R. " Bob " Dobbs is the figurehead of the Church of the SubGenius.

According to SubGenius dogma, " Bob " was a drilling equipment salesman who, in 1953, saw a vision of God ( JHVH-1 according to Church scriptures ) on a television set he had built himself.

The vision inspired him to write the " PreScriptures " ( as described in the Book of the SubGenius ) and found the Church.

The Book of the SubGenius: Being the Divine Wisdom, Guidance, and Prophecy of J. R. " Bob " Dobbs, High Epopt of the Church of the SubGenius, Here Inscribed for the Salvation of Future Generations and in the Hope that Slack May Someday Reign on this Earth ( ISBN 0-671-63810-6 ) is seen as the " bible " of the Church of the SubGenius.

Articles of faith are sets of beliefs usually found in creeds, sometimes numbered, and often beginning with " We believe ...", which attempt to more or less define the fundamental theology of a given religion, and especially in the Christian Church.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints often, but not exclusively consider anointing to be an ordinance.

St Gregory Nazianzen, fellow Doctor of the Church, 330-390, said in Or. 21: " When I praise Athanasius, virtue itself is my theme: for I name every virtue as often as I mention him who was possessed of all virtues.

* traditional values, being often close to the position of the Roman Catholic Church, despite some social liberal and secular attitudes ;

After his move to France, his position became clearer, as his plays took on a clear anti-clerical tone and often satirized the hypocrisy of monks and of the Church.

Proofs in computability theory often invoke the Church – Turing thesis in an informal way to establish the computability of functions while avoiding the ( often very long ) details which would be involved in a rigorous, formal proof.

It is especially important in the Catholic Church, but is also used in Orthodox and Eastern Catholic, as well as Anglican, and Lutheran churches, ( though less often in other Protestant churches ), and it emphasizes Jesus ' sacrifice — his death by crucifixion, which Christians believe brought about the redemption of mankind.

Modern Roman Catholic churches often have a crucifix above the altar on the wall ; for the celebration of Mass, the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church requires that, " on or close to the altar there is to be a cross with a figure of Christ crucified ".

Pope John Paul II often spoke of his great desire that the Catholic Church " once again breathe with both lungs ", thus emphasizing that the Roman Catholic Church seeks to restore full communion with the separated Eastern churches.

* Most Reformation and post-Reformation churches use the term Catholic ( often with a lower-case c ) to refer to the belief that all Christians are part of one Church regardless of denominational divisions ; e. g., Chapter XXV of the Westminster Confession of Faith refers to the " catholic or universal Church ".

These include a faction of Anglicans often also called Anglo-Catholics, 19th century Neo-Lutherans, 20th century High Church Lutherans or evangelical-Catholics and others.

Countercult ministries often concern themselves with religious sects that consider themselves Christian, but hold beliefs thought to contradict the Bible, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Unification church, Christian Science, and Jehovah's Witnesses.

In the Amharic Bible used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church ( an Oriental Orthodox Church ), those books of the Old Testament that are still counted as canonical, but not by all other Churches, are often set in a separate section titled " Deeyutrokanoneekal " ( ዲዩትሮካኖኒካል ), which is the same word.

It is often referred to as The Christian Church, The Disciples of Christ, or more simply as The Disciples.

Along with sewing and embroidery, nuns often engaged in reading and discussing correspondence from Church leaders.

In 1738, while hearing Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans read at St. Botolph Church on Aldersgate Street in London, John Wesley famously felt his heart " strangely warmed ", a conversion experience which is often seen as the beginning of Methodism.

Church authority is often represented by ceremonial headdress, such as a mitre.

The Church was exempt from paying taxes to the government, while it levied a tithe — a 10 % tax on income, often collected in the form of crops — on the general population, which it then redistributed to the poor.

To counter this, the Roman Catholic Church authorised the production of many works of exorcism, the rituals of which were often very similar to those of demonic conjuration.

This is He who places prophets in the Church, instructs teachers, directs tongues, gives powers and healings, does wonderful works, often discrimination of spirits, affords powers of government, suggests counsels, and orders and arranges whatever other gifts there are of charismata ; and thus make the Lord ’ s Church everywhere, and in all, perfected and completed.

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

According to the orthodox Thomism of the Roman Catholic Church, Aristotle rightly regarded reason as a facility of the individual soul.

His writings were well regarded by all Church fathers who followed, in both the West and the East.

Among other things the General Synod agreed that the Book of Common Prayer was to ' be regarded as the authorised standard of worship and doctrine in this Church ...'.

This vision would come to be regarded by the LDS Church as the most important event in human history after the resurrection of Jesus.

The Jews are regarded as special in God's plan ( as in Romans and Ephesians ) and yet the Old Testament prophecies regarding Israel find their fulfillment in Jesus and the Church rather than in a literal restoration of Israel.

Clement is regarded as a Church Father, and he is venerated as a saint in Orthodox Christianity, Eastern Catholicism and Anglicanism.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

Docetism was unequivocally rejected at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 and is regarded as heretical by the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, and many others.

In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.

Wycliffe was still regarded by papal partisans as trustworthy ; his opposition to the possessions of the Church may have escaped notice.

At the end of the 19th-and beginning of the 20th-centuries, the Methodist Church responded strongly to what it regarded as social ills ( i. e. gambling, use of intoxicating beverages, etc.

Origen is regarded as a Church Father, but not a Saint.

In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle.

" A report written by Pacelli the following year for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and filed with Ambassador Joseph Kennedy declared that the Church regarded compromise with the Third Reich as " out of the question ".

Stephen IX died at Florence on 29 March 1058 and is considered by the current-day Roman Catholic Church to have been succeeded by Pope Nicholas II, though others consider his successor to be Pope Benedict X, officially regarded as an antipope.

It is not widely regarded as Sabbath, but some Messianic and Pentecostal churches, such as the native New Israelites of Peru and the Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church, do keep the day of the new moon as Sabbath or rest day, from evening to evening.

The orders of the original Old Catholic Church are regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as valid, though no such declaration of recognition has been issued with regard to the several Independent Catholic Churches that claim to trace their episcopal orders to this Church.

The Song was regarded by Christian theologians either as a typological set of songs describing of the relationship of Christ and the Church or as an allegory of the soul's relationship to Christ and God, until late in the 19th century.

For this reason, the New Testament portrays Jesus as the only redeemer or saviour of mankind, and the Early Church regarded his salvation as a message for everyone, gentiles as well as Jews.

It was regarded as the standard form of the Old Testament in the early Greek Christian Church and is still considered canonical in the Eastern Orthodox Church.