From: "Good News, Etc." of San Diego, a throw-away
Christian paper:

CYBERSPACE CHURCH DEVOTED TO ELVIS

    It had to happen sooner or later.  A pop singer known
to followers as "The King" and frequently "sighted" after
his death was bound to inspire a religion.  After decades
of informal worship, devotees of the late Elvis Presley
have formed a new religious organization, the First
Presleyterian Church of Elvis the Divine.     The
tongue-in-cheek group holds weekly services in cyberspace,
and boasts about 200 members.  These prophets of Presley
are urged to face Las Vegas once a day, make a pilgrimage
to Graceland, eat six meals a day (plus frequent snacks),
and fight the forces of the evil anti-Elvis, Michael
Jackson (who at one time was married to Presley's
daughter).  The church was founded as a joke in 1988, but
has taken off with popularization of the Internet's World
Wde Web.  It recently got a boost from Lehigh University in
Bethlehem, PA, where religion professor Norman Giradot
teaches a class titled "Jesus, Buddah, Confucius and
Elvis."     The founders of the church sell T-shirts and
plan to publish the "New and Improved Testament of Elvis,"
which predicts that Elvis will descend from heaven in a
pink Cadillac and throw high-fat snacks to his believers.


[I hope these guys are giving due reverence to
saint/prophet Stephanie  Pierce who established the
original Church of Elvis in Portland, Oregon.  See
"Visiting the Artomat" 2/27/95 in the Fun_People
archive        
<URL:http://www.empire.net/psl-bin/Fun_People.cgi/>  or
just read these diary notes from the "Slacking in Oregon"
web page at        
<URL:http://www.atdesign.com:80/~ake/cgi/reel/base/Studios
       
/Eyzaguirre/ADepth/1994/94-06-02/>
                                                            
    - psl

More notes on Oregon

24 Hour Church of Elvis

Portland is a diverse town with much to see. But, the most
memorable thing is the "24 Hour Church of Elvis." On a side
street, a store front filled with pictures, cutouts, and
television screens flash. This collage can only be
described as a low-tech "virtual reality multi-media"
experience.

Pictures of Elvis spin as one witnesses the "Miracle of the
Spinning Elvises."

A cheap computer walks a user through a menu of options
like: "Get married, find redemption, find out about a past
life." Each of these paths branch off into other screens.
Each offers a toy surprise at the end.

For example, the past life option asks you what you thought
you were in a past life. Then it goes off to make a
prediction of your past. A sticker and a piece of paper
appear in a dispenser. The sticker reads: "Hello my name
was: Leroy." The paper describes the life an anonymous
mechanic.

Each one of the options are so damn clever. This person
obviously understands Elvis' role in the psyche of America.

"Share the Elvis"