I was in Columbus, Ohio for Labor Day weekend and found this tract in the free lit section of a shop in the Short North. The notorious Church of Scientology has a number of front groups (Weird Tract Number 10 deals with a pamphlet for a Scientology anti-psychiatry front group). The Foundation for a Drug-Free World is one of them. Scientologists want people off of drugs and want them to get high on Xenu (by the way, here's my online comic book "Cock-Tale: A Modern Tijuana Bible" starring Tom Cruise, Xenu, and L Ron Hubbard).
This 32-page 2010 pamphlet is standard 1980s-style Just-Say-No Nancyesque propaganda.
Also, when I was in Columbus, I headed to the annual Greek Festival in the Short North. I parked in downtown Columbus and as I passed by some freaks from the Westboro Baptist Church who were picketing evangelist Joyce Meyer who was speaking downtown. I took pics and asked them for tracts. The guy on the left thought he was clever when he told me he could leave some "tracks" on the pavement.
The Museum of Weird and Demented Religious Tracts is a project of Les Zazous Postmodern Art Galley of Bellaire, Ohio. Read the Welcome Statement of The Museum here.
For more on the gallery, check out the web site here and the gallery's Twitter handle is @ZazousLes. The Twitter handle for the museum is @WeirdTracts
Contributions of weird tracts to the museum can be made by mail: send your weird tracts to Les Zazous Postmodern art Gallery 3475 Guernsey Street, Bellaire, Ohio 43906.
Contributions of weird tracts to the museum can be made by mail: send your weird tracts to Les Zazous Postmodern art Gallery 3475 Guernsey Street, Bellaire, Ohio 43906.
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