The Process Church: The Cult That Mixed Satan, Hollywood, and Conspiracy Theories
From Satanic Panic to Saving Puppies: The Twisted True Story of the Cult That Haunted the 1960s—and Why We Still Talk About It.
The 1960s smelled like weed, rebellion, and burnt draft cards. San Francisco was ground zero—hippies preaching love, poets howling about revolution, and somewhere in the fog, a cult brewing something darker. You’ve heard of Charles Manson. His name alone still chills. But Manson was amateur hour compared to the whispers about The Process Church of the Final Judgment.
Imagine this: a group that worshipped both God and Satan, peddled prophecies about the apocalypse, and supposedly partied with rock stars. Now toss in rumors they idolized Hitler and puppeteered Hollywood. Sounds like bad fiction, right? But here’s the kicker—it’s mostly fiction. The truth? It’s stranger, sadder, and a hell of a lesson in how legends eat reality. Let’s dig deeper.
God, Devil, and the End of the World
The Process Church didn’t pick sides. They played both. Jehovah, the vengeful father. Lucifer, the lightbringer. Satan, the destroyer. Three gods in one twisted family therapy session. Their holy text, The Xtul Dialogues, read like a doomsday comic book: cities burning, angels weeping, and humanity getting one last chance to “purify” itself. Salvation, they said, required merging love and fear, light and dark. Even God and Satan had to shake hands.
But why Hitler? That rumor stuck like gum to a shoe. Blame a pamphlet. In 1968, the group published a screed called “Jehovah on War”—a rant against violence that oddly praised Hitler’s “discipline.” Media vultures pounced. Never mind that the cult called him a “failure.” The headline wrote itself: “Satanic Cult Worships Führer!” Truth drowned in the noise. The Process Church’s real sin? Being too weird to explain, too easy to caricature.