People at all times needed to believe in something, to justify or motivate their actions. Unfortunately, for this they, at times, chose cruel and reckless ways. The sects, which we will talk about, still exist, they have followers who resignedly believe pastors and the ideology of dangerous cults.
1. Scientology
The sect appeared in 1947 in the USA, Los Angeles. Founder is American science fiction writer Lafayette Ronald Hubbard. Modern followers of this church are Tom Cruise and Priscilla Presley. Its ideology lies in the fact that our world is doomed to destruction, but a person will exist outside the mundane body with the help of the main element of our personality - the thetan. Only this knowledge will help to survive the dying planet. Actually, this is where the treatises, books, speakers, methods of salvation, and such courses take more than one thousand dollars. It is believed that this is a criminal sect that siphons money from people. The organization has the most severe control, subordination. Psychiatrists say former Scientologists take longer to rehabilitate than members of any other sect. A number of scientists believe that the connection of the sect with the US CIA is practically a proven fact. It is represented in Russia by dozens of organizations: the Church of Scientology of Moscow, the Dianetics Centers and others. According to experts, the total income of the sect is about $ 5 million per day. They act like a global corporation, not a religious organization.
2. Hare Krishnas
Founded in 1966, it is a religion of worship of Krishna, everything is closely related to India, clothing, food, culture. The essence of religion is that the hypostasis of the original God, a single divine essence, can take various forms, therefore God is in everything, in each of us. In Krishnaism, Krishna is considered the original hypostasis of God. The followers slept little, were malnourished, did not live in luxury and wealth, they suffered for their master and thought that after death they would be rewarded. At divine services, adepts bring themselves to ecstasy: it is believed that at this time there is sexual contact with Krishna. Several dozen people live in the hostel (asharm) of the Moscow center of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). What the followers do in their rituals is sometimes better left in their circle.
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3. Ku Klux Klan
A racist and violent Christian movement that has become known for its brutal murders. The ideology was white supremacy. They, wearing white hoods, burned representatives of other nationalities and races. At their peak, in 1928, there were more than 4 million of them, they made enemies all over the world, and not only among people of a different race, but also among representatives of their own. The photo shows the Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington DC. The Ku Klux Klan has backed presidential candidate Donald Trump. This was reported by The Washington Post before the election.
4. Manson's family
Charles Mills Manson is a musician who has recorded several popular compositions, as well as a murderer, leader of the "Family" commune, some members of which committed a number of brutal murders in 1969. He declared war between the black and white races. The war he called the Helter Skelter. Charles recruited children thrown into the streets. Cult members have committed gruesome murders on the slopes of Hollywood. Manson's songs are covered by avant-garde rock bands; some - like Marilyn Manson - are named after him.
5. Unification Church
The members of this association are better known as the "Munits", the founder of the Sun Myung Moon Church. He proclaimed that the Second Coming of Christ had already taken place. He shifted many of the Christian laws in his sect in a new way. According to legend, the messenger of God must cleanse the human sinful blood. This is what Moon did, entering into contact with all the women of the commune. But then the number of adepts exceeded masculine abilities, and a ritual was developed through which young men and women are "adopted" by Moon (the adepts drink a cocktail in which, most likely, there is Moon's sperm). How plausible this information is one can only guess, but there is nothing surprising in the madness of the sects. Followers of the church must break with their real families, live in a group of 5-10 people, work for a sect, after three years they can ask for a wedding, the spouses are chosen by Moon. The sect has a ritual - mass weddings. Oddly enough, but seminars, discussions, courses and classes are organized on the study of the Bible and the teachings of Moon. He passed away in 2012.
6. Children of God
Created by David Bergom, the essence was to use sex to demonstrate God's love. Followers were attracted by this way of expressing love. The group's overt sexuality, along with the publication and distribution of texts, photographs and videos allegedly encouraging adult sexual contact with children and child molestation, has led to numerous accusations of child sexual abuse. Young women essentially became prostitutes in order to attract new followers. People who expressed a desire to join the "Family of Love" had to quit their job or study, rewrite all their savings and property in the name of the sect, as well as the expected inheritance.
7. People's temple
The sect was formed in Guyana and is recognized as the most terrible in the world. On November 18, 1978, in the jungles of Guyana, about 1,000 US citizens committed suicide. Jim Jones created a cult in which he wanted to know the essence of death. He humiliated his followers, forced submission by violence, made a lot of money from a strange cult. Jones was building "cooperative socialism" in a single village. In official documents they called their commune “Agricultural and Medical Cooperative“Temple of the Nations”. One of the streets of the village bore the name of Lenin, and in the morning the anthem of the Soviet Union sounded over Johnstown as a wake-up call. When trying to disperse the cooperative, all of its inhabitants took potassium cyanide, including Jones.
8. The gates of heaven
In 1997, Applewhite managed to persuade 39 followers of his sect to commit suicide due to the inevitable collision of the Earth with the comet Hale-Bopp. He promised his adepts that they would leave their earthly bodies and go on a journey in a spaceship. Members of the sect dressed in hoods and gloves so as not to even accidentally touch each other and not inflame with sinful desires, obeyed thousands of rules, studied the Bible intensively.
In preparation for suicide, they drank lemon juice, thereby ritually cleansing their bodies.
9. Aum Shinrikyo
At first glance, the teachings of Aum Shinrikyo originated from Buddhism. Under this cover, the sect managed to obtain religious status. During the ten years that he led the sect, he and his followers were accused of forced donations, fraud and even murder. Aum Shinrikyo prepared and carried out several terrorist attacks in Japan, in particular in the Tokyo subway, as a result of which 12 people were killed. The pastor was arrested. Among the materials, the police found poisonous gas to kill four million people, a Russian helicopter, drugs, chemical weapons.
10. Branches of David
David Koresh was a charismatic leader who taught his followers that the United States government is God's worst enemy. His "teachings" also had references to the imminent apocalypse and death of all infidels. He taught to defend himself against the authorities with a weapon in his hand. In February 1994, he was charged with child molestation and illegal purchase of weapons. It is known that everything ended in a huge fire in which 76 members of the sect died.
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