Elizabeth Prophet’s NYT obit
I really ought to save this one for my “favorite obit of the week” this week, but I simply can’t resist mentioning it.
Elizabeth Clare Wulf, a.k.a. Elizabeth Prophet died last week, and rated an obit in the NY Times this weekend.
Elizabeth Prophet was the founder of a church called “Church Universal and Triumphant,” which, as far as I can tell, seems to have been a conglomeration of a bunch of different religious aspects from a variety of traditions; she mixed her Christianity with her Buddhism, a little theosophy, and, from the sound of it, a little bit of greek mythology for good measure.
She got some press in the ’80s for predicting a nuclear doomsday due to war with the Soviet Union, and she made that classic mistake of cult leaders and actually named the date of the apocalypse.