Nudist Christian Church of the Blessed Virgin Jesus

Christians who believe nudism will solve the world's problems

(1982 - present)

Founder Zevs Cosmos (via Imgur)

A Christian sect that practices nudism which founded in the 1980s by a man who goes by the name Zevs Cosmos, who claimed God commanded him to travel to an area near the Utah-Arizona border in 1985. Once there, Jesus and an angel appeared to him naked and told him to go to a cave on a nearby ridge, where he received a new revelation to be added to the Bible after the Book of Revelation, which he called The Book of Zevs. This revelation instructed Zevs Cosmos to build a nudist city called Cosmos near the Grand Canyon and condemns Mormonism for their practice of polygamy and their belief in the inferiority of black people. The church teaches that pornography, crime and other social problems would be solved if society would adopt a nudist lifestyle and are also against female genital mutilation and male circumcision.

This organization is still active, most likely in the Los Angeles area, but appears to be little more than just the leader.

Religion: Christianity

Founder: Zevs Cosmos (born Esyedepa Aesfyza)

Founded: 1982

Location: United States and Canada

Size: 50 as of 1984

Anarchist

Zevs Cosmos was arrested for his involvement in the January 6 Capitol attack (source)

Hate Group

Painted swastikas and Nazi lightning bolts at the National Mall and Presidential Park in Washington D.C. in 1999, according to police (source)
Displayed signs with swastikas in 1993 (source)
Faced possible deportation due to multiple instances of vandalizing areas with anti-semitic symbols (source)

Leader-Prophet

Zevs Cosmos claimed to have had a direct encounter with divine beings in which he was told to write new scripture (source)
Zevs held a sign saying "I Jesus Zeus is your god" (source)
Zevs claimed that God and an angel, both naked, appeared to him and told him to write another book of the Bible, called the Book of Zeus (source)

A flyer advertising the church (via Gale)

Sexual Allegations

Zevs Cosmos was arrested in 2006 for leaving flyers with nude photographs of himself in people's mailboxes (source)

Unique Sexual Practices

Strong advocates of nudism, believing it means cleanliness, honesty, family atmosphere, modesty at its best, freedom, and goodliness (source, source)
Believe that life with nudity reduces sexual hang-ups, problems caused by undue expectations of one' s body, pornography, and crime (source)
Actively seeks the establishment of clothes-optional public areas across the United States (source)

Founder Zevs Cosmos (via Imgur)

Other info:

Zevs Cosmos said that God and an angel told him a holy land of the Nudist Christian people would be built northwest of the Grand Canyon (source)