I found this excellently weird project called “The Cross in Space.” The aim of this project is - you guessed it - to shoot a cross into space. It will happen sometime in the next month. From the site description:
- The cross will be over You personally! The Cross will be over every Nation on earth! Over Afghanistan! Saudi Arabia! Jerusalem! America! The cross in Space Satellite will be in a Polar orbit from pole to pole. As the earth turns it will pass over every inch of the earth like peeling an apple. The cross will circle the earth every one and a half hours. After launch we can tell you on our site when it will be over you and your nation. We have carried the cross in Every nation. Now we will, God willing have it flying above Every nation! We wave the cross in the face of Satan and proclaim that Jesus is Lord over All the Earth.
At a mere two inches tall, the cross will be launched into space through Space Services, Inc - in an apparent attempt to invoke the End of Days.
- “Then the Sign of the Son of Man will appear in the Sky! Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” (Matthew 24:30)
The fellow who is arranging this “historic” event is Arthur Blessitt. If you’re not familiar with Blessitt, he is quite the character. Perhaps most notably, along with Billy Graham, he is credited as being one of the people who helped “bring” George W. Bush to “Jesus.” (Note “bring” and “Jesus” are in quotation marks, because they are used veeeery loosely.)
Arthur Blessitt also won the Guinness World Record for “World’s Longest Walk” in 1996. Blessitt’s site says:
- The walking distance as of January 1, 2005 is: 36,651 miles (58,982 km) in 303 nations, island groups and territories. This includes every sovereign nation.
But he wasn’t just walking for the shit of it, believe it or not. He was carrying a twelve foot cross. In fact, the two inch cross going into space is carved down from the twelve-footer.
Here’s the history of Blessitt’s cross-walk. The bullshit part, though, is that the base of his cross has a wheel on it. Check out the photo. Jesus didn’t have a fucking wheel on his cross (that is, if he was even historical in the first place). I personally find this very annoying, even though I suppose its purely a practical matter, so that the end of the cross would not be worn off through excessive dragging. But still…
Also weird is that in the 1960’s, Blessitt was something of a preacher to hippies in Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip. He ran a club called “His Place” which was supposed to be some kind of Jesus coffee house. Blessit also seems to have released an album on vinyl in 1972. I found a website which seems to have a RealAudio file download of the album. From that site:
- Can you say hippie? Hollywood street preacher Arthur Blessitt could as well as a host of other late-60’s slang terms. Blessitt was known for hosting the all-night psychedelic nightclub His Place in the center of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, attracting “acid heads, speed freaks, bikers, prostitutes, hippies, pushers, Hell’s Angels, Black Panthers…’, etc.
[...] Blessit’s pouting-televangelist preaching style (punctuated with phrases of “can you dig it”, “take a trip with me”, “bummer”, “He’ll give you a high…”, etc.) is backed with a slow country gospel piano and chintzy organ, with the band singing ‘Jesus” (more accurately moaning) through the whole thing, coming off as a strange Red-Sovine-turns-hippie-Jesus-freak tearjerker ballad and making for a most unusual listening experience. Hear Blessit’s half-tongue-in-cheek “visions” of a transformed Hollywood where the Whiskey-A-Go-Go becomes the Jesus-A- Go-Go, the Classy Cat becomes the Saved Cat, the crap tables are cut down to make prayer altars, and the sheriffs carry Bibles in their gun holsters.
Sounds fucking retarded to me, but I guess those were the times. People thought they could get away with that kind of stuff.
[Via Lewies Blog and Quality Control Alliance]
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