From EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL by Robert Anton Wilson with Miriam Joan Hill. Copyright (c) 1998 by Robert Anton Wilson. Reprinted by arrangement with HarperPerennial, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
"I found IT!"
--slogan of the Campus Crusade for Christ
"IT found me!"
--slogan of the Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
The Campus Crusade for Cthulhu claims to be the oldest college club in the world, claiming that before Ancient Greece or Atlantis, even "before the first Illuminati attempts at world conquest," they had "tentacles" gripping the whole world. Worshiping the Great Old Ones, interstellar giants from the Necronomicon ofAbdul Alhazred, and/or the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu Cult has existed even before humanity appeared on earth, and created the Campus Crusade at Miskatonic University (in Arkham, Massachusetts) early in this century, gradually adding chapters at Yale, New York University, State University of New York, etc.
Cthulhu, usually pictured as a slimy green octopus of mountainous size, may not be an attractive deity, but the Campus Crusaders insist that he has no worse morals or habits than most of the other gods people have worshiped.
The Campus Crusade at Binghamton, New York, plans to build a Ziggurat of Doom using slave labor if students cannot pay for it. Other branches have proposed a racial program of "ethnic cleansing," based on the proposition that "if everyone takes a bath at least once a year--whether they need it or not--we believe relations between the races will be much improved." In 1996, the Crusaders ran Cthulhu for president with the slogan "Why accept the lesser evil?"
The Cthulhists, like their rivals in the Campus Crusade for Christ, put out a
variety of proselytizing pamphlets, but they have livelier titles, e.g., "Yog
Sothoth Neblod Zin," "Abdul Alhazred was NOT mad," "Cthulhu fthagn," etc.
See also:
Kenneth Grant, Holy Order of the Lemon, Robert Morning Sky
References:
http://www.primenet.com/~fedup/cthulhu/
http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~winterh/ccc/