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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).

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

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.

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

Re: Top Ten Deadliest Cults by spartoo: 1:00am On Nov 24, 2014
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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:
eiye,aiye & kk confraternity nko?


They didn't say 10 boyscout groups..

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Re: Top Ten Deadliest Cults by Nostradamus: 10:58pm On Nov 24, 2014
Fxwarrior:


They didn't say 10 boyscout groups..
lol...maybe ten jobless youths will do

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