Top 5 Mysterious STRANGE Cults

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Top 5 Mysterious Strange Cults I don’t know about you, but when I think about crazy religious cults I imagine people in robes chanting, holding candles, worshipping aliens, and drinking kool aid laced with poison that makes you go sleepy bye bye. The stereotypical image we have of religious cults comes from the wacky antics of movements such as Heaven’s Gate and those involved in the Jonestown massacre, and so it’s no surprise that when you mention the word cult people get a little bit scared. Over the years cults have been responsible for mass suicides, terror bombings, and forcing Katie Holmes to marry Tom Cruise, which I think is totally the worst one. The Church of Euthanasia With a name like that you may be fooled into thinking that The Church of Euthanasia is all about compassion. Euthanasia is often seen as a final act of love - we euthanize our pets if they’re suffering, and in some parts of the world humans are allowed to safely euthanize themselves if they are suffering a terminal illness. But the Church of Euthanasia? Well, they’re all about suicide, abortion, cannibalism, and butt-stuff. Hopefully not all at once. The Raelians On a list of weird and whacked-out cults it was obvious that at least one of these entires was going to involve a group of nutjobs who worship UFOs, but since everyone already knows about Scientology we thought we’d take a look at a different crazy cosmic cult that looks way more fun to be part of – The Raelians. The Raelians believe that humans were created by a race of extra-terrestrials called the Elohim – okay, so far so crazy so good. The ethics of the church include sharing, democracy, striving for world peace, nonviolence, and liberal sexual practices. I like these guys already, although some may say that their leader, a Frenchman named Claude Vorilhon who is now known as Rael, has taken advantage of his position in the church to exploit one particular aspect of the Raelian teachings. Can you guess which one it is? No, it’s not world peace. The Japanese Doomsday Cults The only thing worse than one doomsday cult is two doomsday cults, and that’s exactly what happened when the infamous Aum Shinrikyo split in 2007 into two equally messed up organisations. Aum Shinrikyo was founded in the mid-1980s by Chizuo Matsumoto, and amalgamated several aspects of different world religions into one big melting pot of stupidity. Matsumoto changed his name to Shoko Asahara, and after declaring himself the Christ of this new movement he outlined a series of prophecies which mostly lead to your typical Armageddon scenario. Asahara claimed that the world was littered with international conspiracies who sought to bring about the end of days, and his list of perpetrators included the Jews, Freemasons, The British Royal Family, and…the Dutch? Okay that’s a new one. How can you take over the world when you’re high and wearing wooden shoes? Damned if I know. The Cosmic People of Light Powers Have you ever wondered what would happen if you gave a web designer LSD and said – “Hey, build my religion a website”. Then take a look at the homepage for the Cosmic People of Light Powers. http://www.heavenly-angels.org/english/default_en.htm It’s like someone forced a kid with ADHD to live off nothing but Froot Loops and Tang for a whole year, and then gave him a box of crayons and asked him to draw all the colours he could taste with his skin. But let’s look past their webpage that resembles the aftermath of a unicorn orgasm and take a closer look at what the Cosmic People of Light Powers truly believe in. Also known as The Universe People, which if you ask me is nowhere near as cool; these guys inhabit the central European countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Their beliefs are based upon the idea of their leader being able to communicate with extra-terrestrials, and this alien doomsday personality cult has been operating since the 1990s. The Cult of the Kastom Many of the insane and illogical people on this list worship deities and spiritual beings, beings who were obviously invented as a storytelling device, a way of conveying certain ideas and commandments. But are there any cults out there who worship a real, living human? One who walks the earth today? There sure are, and one such group are the Kastom people from Vanuatu, and their god…is married to the Queen of England. Vanuatu is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, and its southern island of Tanna is home to a tribe known as the Yaohnanen. The Yaohnanen’s ancient tales once foretold of a visitor who was the son of a mountain spirit. This visitor it was said had travelled far over the seas to a mystical distant land, where he married a lady of huge power before swearing to return one day. The tribe believed that when the man did return he would bring prosperity to the island, and in the 1950s the Yaohnanen people thought they’d finally found their god on earth.