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Top Ten Deadliest Cults by boman2014: 11:20pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God The followers of the Ugandan doomsday cult The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God believed that the apocalypse would occur in the year 2000. They fiercely kept the Ten Commandments and supposedly preached the the word of Jesus. The group so feared damnation for accidentally breaking the ninth commandment, to not bear false witness, that they spoke little and used only sign language on some days. Sex was forbidden, soap was forbidden and only one meal consumed Fridays and Mondays. The group was a break-away Catholic cult that found its origins with Paulo Kashaku, who claimed to have divinely inspired visions. His daughter Credonia Mwerinde (inset) claimed to have similar visions. She, along with Joseph Kibweteere and Bee Tait founded the group in 1980. Though the group had broken with the Catholic Church, it attracted many defrocked priests and nuns, who were given positions of authority. After frenzied preparations, January 1, 2000, passed without incident. Followers began to lose faith and cult leaders set another date for the end of the world: March 17, 2000. On the big day over 500 worshipers in the town of Kanungu arrived at a church, but soon after, it exploded and burned down. At first it was thought to have been a mass suicide, but when signs of strangulation and poisoning became evident, the cause of death was changed to murder. A search of other cult properties turned up hundreds of bodies, more followers apparently murdered days before the final explosion and fire (pictured).
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Re: Top Ten Deadliest Cults by boman2014: 11:23pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
The Chicago Rippers Robin Gecht (second from left), 30, a former employee of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, and three other men, teenage brothers Andrew (far left) and Thomas Kokoraleis (second from right) and Edward Spreitzer (far right), 21, formed a satanic cult and gang called The Chicago Rippers that is suspected in the 1981 and 1982 disappearances of as many as 18 women. One victim, a teenage prostitute they had left for dead, was able to give a description of her attackers, which led to their arrest. Once in custody all but Gecht confessed to the murders and to having removed one breast from each sacrificial victim, having taken turns raping the open wound, having masturbated onto the breast, chopped it up and eaten it while Gecht read verses from The Satanic Bible. Though the others were willing to implicate Gecht, investigators were never able to definitively connect him to the murders. He was sentenced to 120 years in prison for kidnapping, rape and mutilation of the prostitute. Andrew Kokoraleis and Edward Spreitzer received the death sentence for their roles in the strangulation murder of Lorraine Borowski, 21, a secretary whose mutilated body was found in a cemetery. Andrew Kokoraleis was executed in 1999. Spreitzer's death sentence was commuted in 2003. Thomas Kokoraleis received a life sentence and may be released on September 30, 2017. Read more Robin Gecht and the Chicago Rippers
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Re: Top Ten Deadliest Cults by boman2014: 11:27pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
Heaven's Gate The Heaven's Gate cult was a U.F.O. religion that fused some Christian apocalyptic thought with concepts popular in science fiction. Followers believed that the Earth was going to be destroyed in a great "recycling" and that the only way to survive was to leave the planet by evolving to the next level. The cult was founded in the 1970s by Marshall Applewhite (pictured) after he had visions of himself in the Book of Revelation, then as an evolved human relative of Jesus, and finally as an alien being in human form. The cult believed that in order to be eligible to ascend to the next level of existence, members would have to give up all things human: possessions, money, jobs, individuality, sexuality, friends, family and even life itself. The members decided that if they killed themselves at precisely the right moment they would not die, but would be taken up to an alien spacecraft hidden by the tail of Comet Hale-Bopp then passing near Earth. Interestingly the group funded itself by doing web development. On March 26, 1997, the bodies of Applewhite and 38 of his followers were found dead in the cult's rented mansion. Police believe that they killed themselves in groups over the course of three days. The cultists ingested lethal doses of phenobarbital, though autopsies showed the presence of cyanide and arsenic as well, and put plastic bags over their heads. All the dead were found lying in their bunks dressed identically, down to their "Heaven's Gate Away Team" armbands.
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Re: Top Ten Deadliest Cults by boman2014: 11:34pm On Nov 23, 2014 |
Aum Shinrikyo The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) was founded out of the Tokyo apartment of Shoko Asahara (inset) in 1984 as a yoga meditation class. By 1989 it was granted official status as a religious organization by the Japanese government. By 1995 the group claimed to have over 40,000 members worldwide. The cult's beliefs combine Yoga, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity and the writings of Nostradamus. Asahara believed himself to be Japan's fully enlightened "Christ," who could take away sin and would save his followers from the nuclear Armageddon he predicted. In the 1980s the increasingly controversial cult was accused of forcing members to donate money, holding members captive and of committing at least one murder of one who tried to leave the cult, but retained some popular acceptance. In the 1990s Asahara adopted the view that the U.S. would attack Japan and begin the End Times. The cult's violent tendencies escalated, and they began to stockpile weapons and military hardware. By 1993 members were manufacturing sarin and VX gas. In March 1995, Asahara received word that the police were planning on raiding his facility. In an effort to distract them, on March 20 he ordered the release of sarin gas in the Tokyo subway system (pictured) killing 13 people, seriously injuring 54 and affecting 980 (possibly more, because many Japanese victims of crime are reluctant to report it). The distraction backfired; police instead raided cult properties all over Japan, discovering explosives, chemical and biological weapons (including anthrax and Ebola cultures), a Russian military helicopter, enough sarin to kill four million people, LSD, methamphetamine, truth serum, millions of dollars in cash and gold, and, shockingly, victims held captive by the cult in cells on the cult's properties. Asahara initially issued statements saying the evidence was manufactured. Ultimately he was arrested, but his attorney insisted he had no knowledge of the sarin attacks due to his declining health. He was tried and sentenced to death by hanging on February 27, 2004. His appeals have been denied. Asahara disassociated himself from the cult, which still exists today as Aleph, in order to prevent its dissolution. Read more False Prophet: The Aum Cult of Terror
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Re: Top Ten Deadliest Cults by spartoo: 1:00am On Nov 24, 2014 |
10 |
Re: Top Ten Deadliest Cults by saintvc(m): 1:17am On Nov 24, 2014 |
Christianity and islam nko? |
Re: Top Ten Deadliest Cults by Nostradamus: 4:54pm On Nov 24, 2014 |
eiye,aiye & kk confraternity nko? |
Re: Top Ten Deadliest Cults by Fxwarrior: 9:20pm On Nov 24, 2014 |
Nostradamus: They didn't say 10 boyscout groups.. 1 Like |
Re: Top Ten Deadliest Cults by Nostradamus: 10:58pm On Nov 24, 2014 |
Fxwarrior:lol...maybe ten jobless youths will do |
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