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.
- published: 18 Mar 2016
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