Los Angeles birthed Pentecostalism and America barely even notices that it has a new religion running free taking over continents

LA was a hot scene in the 20th Century that gave us the Foursquare Church, Objectivism, Scientology and EST, also The Source Family, The Manson Family, Tensegrity, Esalen, New Age cults, UFO cults, Nazi cults, Nazi UFO cults

That’s how these things go, in waves like any other industry, Mormonism was only the most famous thing to come out of the Burnt-Over District in the Third Great Awakening

Christianity was only the most famous thing to come out of Jerusalem of the period, that’s the deepest joke of Life of Brian, that it’s not a joke