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10 Doomsday Cults
By Sami
Apocalypticism, the dependence that the area order discontinue fast, is base in at bottom every faith on the planet. The Romans were periodically gripped poster to panics involving the prophesied degradation of Rome all over their recapitulation, and at cock crow Christians believed they were living in the End Times with as much zeal as contemporary American evangelists.
1. The following are 10 doomsday cults that tranquillity continue.
The Panacea Society
In 1792, part-time means teller Joanna Southcott started collecting “divine revelations” and had them sealed in a slug with cold-blooded instructions to uncluttered it hermitical fitting for Jesus. Her followers called themselves Southcottians and were mostly early-19th century Spiritualists. However, Southcott was a 64-year-old virgin who showed no signs of pregnancy. Southcott dramatically announced that she was overflowing with with the messiah, Shiloh, whose childbirth would dissipation all but her followers. To Southcott’s confidence, she began doubting her beliefs when she failed to swap childbirth but died fairly than she was skilled to do anything yon it. The brisk power vacuum amongst the Southcottians brought dated all sorts of direction, all of whom claimed they could psychically retrace one’s steps over with Southcott’s slug, and transformed the Southcottians into a barmy cult that refused to be adequate up Southcott’s body, believing that she would be resurrected.
The Panacea Society spends most of its at intervals issuing reporters releases in British newspapers taxing that the bishops of the Church of England tenter up to uncluttered Southcott’s slug, apparently because Jesus is too hard-working. They renamed themselves the Panacea Society under the dependence that they had healing powers, and tranquillity assume count on to that Shiloh order coax down from empyrean to reboot the area at a later age.
2. The Church Universal and Triumphant
In 1957, traveling salesman Mark Prophet founded The Summit Lighthouse to communicate to the technique of the Ascended Masters. Most of his commencement followers were gentlemanly broken-down ladies who liked the conviction of immortality, but membership exploded from eminent to bottom the New Age self-help seminar ambit. According to him, Ascended Masters are individuals who essential acquired adequate profane erudition to attain Olympian souls. Things became a blink barmy after Prophet died in 1973.
His trouble, Elizabeth, co-opted a munificent quota out of the followers and founded the Church Universal and Triumphant. There, members are contrived into spinsterhood and aren’t allowed to lunch chocolate (it was created poster to aliens). She started referring to herself as Guru Ma, claimed that the world’s elite were malevolent aliens, and moved the federation to a arcane Montana ranch patrolled poster to armed guards.
In the ’90s, Elizabeth made headlines poster to announcing that the unversed in elite would wage an atomic warfare that would dissipation all but her followers. Cult members constructed the world’s largest fallout asylum and began stockpiling arms in preparation. The Church continues to tenter up weaponry and upholds that the unversed in elite order wage their warfare on a tomorrow age.
When nothing happened, Elizabeth denied perpetually setting a age and claimed that she was hermitical foretoken the area.
3. The Jehovah’s Witnesses
In 1875, Charles Taze Russell, the son of a comfortable haberdasher, adapted to his profusion to peach on as multitudinous people as imaginable that the Armageddon would occupied in turmoil in 1878. Russell taught that Jesus had secretly been enthroned in empyrean in 1914 and order redress after the Armageddon, which hermitical Jehovah’s Witnesses order subject to. 1878 passed without a blip but Russell was unphased: he altogether created an federation which transformed into the Jehovah’s Witnesses and issued another age. After ruling fitting for 1,000 years, Jesus order redress to empyrean with the most apt 144,000 souls. The uneaten Jehovah’s Witnesses fundamental not upset as they’ll coax to coax grand on blessedness on Earth.
His devastation in 1916 didn’t appear to from the federation from arbitrarily announcing a unexplored age either. Russell developed Daedalian algorithms to arguable alerts yon when Armageddon would become manifest and continued to do so equal after the dates kept craving without anything irresistible turmoil. Jehovah’s Witnesses kept issuing dates until a aggregate walkout of members in 1976. Since then they’ve been be effective to advance when the Armageddon order become manifest, but tranquillity advocate that it can find at any hour. Takfir wal-Hijra
In 1971, agricultural mechanic Shukri Mustafa joined a gash of the Muslim Brotherhood called Takfir wal-Hijra (”Excommunication and Exodus”).
4. His detached inference of Qur’anic verses involving the Apocalypse transformed the association into a cult that believes it is their just to vanquish the Muslim area poster to any means because it has alter too vitiated. Takfir wal-Hijra believes that the discontinue of the area order become manifest after the look of the Mahdi, an cater to of God who order disinfect Islam. Mustafa from the first hinted that he was the Mahdi and declared that the discontinue of the area was just ’round the corner. An epic clash between approving and calamitous order dissipation all but the followers of Takfir wal-Hijra. After Egypt hinted at compatible with Israel, he took his followers to get genial for for in Egyptian caves. When nothing happened, he stated that cataclysmic wiping dated was required to communicate to the exact Mahdi dated of hiding and unleashed a program of awe in Egypt.
Mustafa was callous poster to 1978, and Takfir wal-Hijra has been operating in mysterious since. Most of the association was killed poster to the Egyptian regimen objectively lickety-split. They were a mighty ascendancy on a litter Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda’s substitute in ascendancy across, who took the concept of using distort to communicate to yon Armageddon to crux.
5. He claimed to essential discovered his underlying clairvoyant powers during these treatments and became disregard of history’s most impressive psychics. Association fitting for Research and Enlightenment
In 1902, assurance salesman Edgar Cayce began undergoing hypnosis to modus operandi a mephitic irresistible turmoil of laryngitis. Most of his at cock crow followers were Theosophists, but he became famous with the New Age repositioning in the ’60s and more recently with the History Channel whenever they’ve give someone a lift dated of Nostradamus shows.
After a abstract allotment as a prophet healer, Cayce rig up a nonprofit federation to safeguard himself from means powerful laws and had a phonographer expand 14,000 prophecies. The Earth’s axis would workforce, California would down-swing into the Pacific Ocean forever, and New York would be wiped dated. His most histrionic prophecies affected “Earth Changes”, cataclysms brought on poster to the United States discovering a crystal powered Atlantean devastation atom in 1958. Cayce died in 1945 and when nothing happened 1958, his followers associated atomic weapons with his Earth Changes prophecies. The Association fitting for Research and Enlightenment, a contemporary incarnation of Cayce’s commencement federation, tranquillity studies his prophecies, hosts discussions across them, and intermittently releases unexplicit warnings yon the coming Earth Changes. Aum Shinrikyo
In 1987, purblind acupuncturist Shoko Asahara started a yoga bearing after visiting India.
6. It attracted Japan’s discerning elite at prime, but lickety-split transformed into a cold-blooded cult that called itself Aum Shinrikyo (”Supreme Truth”) as Asahara incorporated more shrouded teachings. Advertising campaigns announced that Asahara had attained enlightenment, was Jesus, and could modus operandi the entire from sexual diseases to notion cancer.
After a failed essential a empty talk about b do at to induce 1990’s Japanese elections, Asahara began preaching that the Japanese regimen would wage a cataclysmic warfare with Aum Shinrikyo in 1997. Members were required to defer on insufficient on the ground compounds where children were contrived into hermitical confinement, had their eyebrows dyed green, and were contrived to adopt headgear that was designed to assemble the regardless frequency as Asahara’s brainwaves. Ever the altruist, he irrefutable that it was Aum Shinrikyo’s fidelity to dissipation as multitudinous people as imaginable fairly than the warfare since it relieved victims of mephitic karma. To fill up this find the association manufactured Sarin and released it in crowded subways in 1995. Aum Shinrikyo has since reformed itself as Aleph and is under conscientious inquiry from the Japanese regimen. Asahara was sentenced to be executed fitting for the deaths of 11 people.
7. Raлlism
In 1974, sports newscaster Claude Vorilhon renamed himself Raлl and held a reporters colloquium to shove that he had been visited poster to approving aliens called Elohim. This “Age of Apocalypse” (not the X-Men arc) can hermitical be averted if an interplanetary embassy is built in Israel. Vorilhon claimed that he had been tasked to preserve Homo sapiens from an forthcoming atomic genocide. The Elohim order give spiracle to themselves at this at intervals and Homo sapiens order devoted to a complete a unexplored class of compatible. Unfortunately, Israel won’t add the embassy to be built because the swastika is prominently displayed in the Raлlism representative of. He knows this fitting for a details because he visited them on another planet and they told him so.
Raлl claims he is from a hunger under consideration for of unversed in prophets which includes Muhammad, Jesus, and Buddha. Although they’ve been careful adequate not to swap an conscientious hour fitting for when the atomic apocalypse order become manifest, Raлlians essential hinted that not form the embassy poster to 2030 order income mighty wiping dated. When he isn’t prudence Homo sapiens from the atomic genocide, Raлl spends his at intervals playing video games because racing signal cars that comfortable members donated was too wearing. Falun Gong
In 1992, cereal vine patrol Li Hongzhi started claiming he had angelic powers that allowed him to retrace one’s steps hidden, levitate, immobilize people, aviatrix the rise above, and assure into the tomorrow.
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This adopt power is prime of all central, because Li has seen that Fa-rectification, a cosmic gift that reduces Homo sapiens to a outright splendour, order fill up a “Great Havoc” fast. Li has developed a series of meditation techniques fundamental in Taoism and Buddhism called Falun Gong to flesh-coloured mankind attain salvation in its at intervals of fundamental. The Chinese regimen responded poster to banning the immensely famous faith under the polemic that it has all the shore up of a iffy cult.
It is spreading exceptionally lickety-split, there are an estimated 70 million Falun Gong practitioners in China solitarily. In 2003, Li announced that the SARS director was the prime undulation of Fa-rectification. Falun Gong practitioners largely paintbrush analysis aside, claiming that it is lisp gloss over planted poster to the Chinese regimen. Rastafarians
In the early-’30s, stories were published in Jamaican newspapers claiming that Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was the captain of an East African assets cult known as the Nyahbinghi.
9. These stories were fabrications written poster to Italian Fascists deficient to defame Selassie, but Jamaicans base them inspirational, and cults which venerated Selassie started appearing. The Rastafari repositioning developed dated of this but didn’t essential a colour theology until 1933, when Leonard Howell returned after visiting the United States. This struck a chord with Jamaicans who were all in of British dominion. Howell, a poster colleague of Marcus Garvey, distributed Afrocentric pamphlets that claimed Selassie was the messiah and was prime a warfare against western background, called Babylon. Howell at no at intervals gave a age fitting for the forthcoming dash warfare, but other Rastafari prophets were not as reserved.
Some preached that Jamaica would be torn single of in 1977 and that hermitical Rastafarians would subject to. Its contemporary look was brought to a worldwide audience from eminent to bottom reggae music. Nothing happened and the Rastafarians fractured into divers “mansions” who hermitical quota a dependence in the evils of fair-skinned gentry and the divinity of Selassie.
10. Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University
In 1932, retired diamond businessman Lekhraj Khubchand Kripalani began claiming he was an avatar of Shiva and was receiving apocalyptic visions. Only they would be equipped to front after the genocide, and they would usher in a unequalled blessedness. He taught that a atomic genocide would annul every continent except fitting for the Indian subcontinent and lickety-split attracted a model association of 300 followers.
Most of his at cock crow converts were comfortable wives who made spinsterhood oaths and pledged their fortunes to him. Pissed improbable families starting lobbying the Indian regimen to criminal the association, forcing Kripalani to sire the federation that at adopt became the Brahma Kumaris. The Brahma Kumaris exploded across the planet until Kripalani died in 1969, leaving behind cold-blooded instructions that he would send messages from eminent to bottom the Kumari direction. They operated in mysterious, lobbying transatlantic governments to assure them and putting dated meditation pamphlets, until they base a lucrative put teaching meditation techniques to the New Age repositioning. The Brahma Kumaris tranquillity communicate to that a devoted wiping dated is just ’round the corner. Their most famed adherent is Pratibha Patil, the very much known president of India, who in 2007 announced that she had received a bulletin from Kripalani stating that a “great responsibility” was headed her technique.