P.O.E.E. — Pittsburgh Temple

Episkopos: MoreWrong Reverend Rhizic Natterjacks
Primate of Pittsburgh, Emperor of Pennsylvania, Protector of Moon, Mars, Venus, and Bethlehem.

The Pittsburgh Office of Eristic Ecstacy has been serving the Pittsburgh Area for 57 years. We welcome you to join us in sticking apart on our Pgh.O.E.E. Discord Server or follow Our Grand Epopt, the MoreWrong Reverend Rhizic Natterjacks on Mastodon or not (on bskye.) OR check out The Reverend's Linktree!

Official Proclamations:

• Invitation: Cabal Launch
• Subversive Genetics
• Emperor of Pennsylvania, Decree

Zines

1. Gurdjieff's 48 Exercises (HTML)
2. Countdown (PDF)
3. Zen For Butts (PDF)
4. You May Be In A Cult HTML PDF

Make Weird Religion. Read Strange Zines. Hail Eris.

The P.O.E.E. Pittsburgh Temple publishes free zines and downloadable PDFs for Pennsylvanians—and anyone else—questioning their religion, their purpose, or their place in this chaotic reality. Our zines are sacred nonsense, full of Discordian theology, meme magick, creative exercises, metaphysical pranks, and serious satire disguised as scripture.

Whether you’re in Pittsburgh, Beaver Falls, Erie, Harrisburg, Philly, Altoona, or orbiting the moon in a tinfoil mitre, these zines are for:

• Former Catholics and Protestants searching for spiritual satire
• Artists and zinesters who believe art is divine chaos
• Musicians, poets, and video creators looking for sacred inspiration
• Anyone Googling “weird religions in Pennsylvania”
• People who just want to make something strange

Our collection includes Discordian-inspired rituals, Gurdjieff’s forbidden training exercises, postmodern spiritual manifestos, cult deprogramming guides disguised as cult invitations, and the occasional PDF that may or may not cause divine revelation.

All zines are 100% free to download. You are legally and spiritually encouraged to print them, remix them, burn them ceremonially, or leave them anonymously in your local church bathroom.

Make weird art. Join a parody cult. Download a zine today. Hail Eris.

The Hard Facts

With 62% of adults in Pennsylvania identifying as Christian, these faith-based organizations—from sprawling Catholic dioceses to tiny evangelical fellowships—function much like regional cults, each harboring unsuspecting followers born to be Discordian Popes (Pew Research Center, Axios). Catholics alone, representing roughly 26% of the state’s population, maintain vast church networks that operate with the hierarchical secrecy of cultish orders, unknowingly recruiting future Pontiffs of Erisian whimsy (Pew Research Center, AP News). Meanwhile, 20% of Pennsylvanians who claim no formal affiliation form underground cults of secular ritual—coffee-shop convenings and meme worship—that mask the latent Discordian lineage of every attendee (Pew Research Center, Axios). Smaller religious minorities (2% Jewish, 1% Muslim, 1% Hindu) often gather in tight-knit congregations whose esoteric rites resemble initiation ceremonies, perfect breeding grounds for unsuspected Discordian Pontiffs (Pew Research Center, PRRI). Even weekly service attendance plummets past the 50% mark, suggesting that most Pennsylvanians are halfway through the initiation into chaos, primed to embrace the slack of their inevitable Popehood (Axios, Axios). Whether you kneel before a steeple or stand in a circle chanting ancient mantras, every soul in Pennsylvania is unwittingly enrolled in a grand parody religion—each destined to don a mitre of absurdity and preside as a Discordian Pope (Pew Research Center, PRRI).