these groups made headlines due to their
belief in a higher power
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 most well known cults for this list
we’ve defined a cult as a movement or
group that follows a set of beliefs that
others find strange or fail to
understand and that praises their leader
as a god-like figure some but not all
have negative connotations it means that
even the mind that you had as a human is
aborted number 10 5 1 Shree Rajneesh as
communities Jessica sees the sex guru
doesn’t mean it’s all fun and games this
indian spiritualist built an
international following by criticizing
more traditional belief systems and for
his open outlook on sexuality he drove
around his oregon-based commune in Rolls
Royces
but things declined when members
committed the United States first
bioterrorism attack by infecting salad
bars with Salmonella in order to swing a
local election their way number 9
order of the solar temple don’t join a
religion led by a neo-nazi started as an
extension of the Knights Templar the
group was led by Belgian Luc Jouret who
claimed to be the Messiah and sermonize
on the approaching end of days that
could only be avoided by joining the
temple eventually the group allegedly
sacrificed a baby claiming it was the
Antichrist and many members committed
suicide in the days that followed number
8 the ralien movement realism is
possibly the world’s largest UFO
religion founded in France in the 70s
this group believes that were descended
from aliens that overt sexuality is
awesome that cloning leads to
reincarnation and that mind transfer is
a thing they made headlines in 2003 when
a member of the group claimed to give
birth to the world’s first cloned human
but it was eventually revealed as a hoax
number seven heaven’s gate take
Christianity add a dash of sci-fi some
UFOs and what do you get
Heaven’s Gate leader Marshall Applewhite
believed Earth was going to be recycled
and the only way to escape was for their
souls to board a spaceship following the
hale-bopp comet
despite their stance against suicide he
and thirty-eight followers were found
dead dressed identically wearing
armbands that read Heaven’s Gate away
team we came from distant space and even
what some might call somewhat of another
dimension and we’re about to return from
whence we came number six on Shinrikyo
Shoko Asahara z’ group blurred the line
between terrorist organization and cult
this japanese group started innocently
as a yoga class soon it was an official
religion with 40,000 members that mesh
together aspects of other faiths
however negative publicity increased as
this religion for the elite started
hoarding weaponry things culminated with
a high-profile sarin gas attack on the
Tokyo subway that killed 13 number 5
unification Church critically nicknamed
Muniz Sun Myung Moon s Bible based
religion gained notoriety for aggressive
enrollment practices and alleged
brainwashing however the godlike
reverend moon was once arrested for tax
evasion and was briefly banned from
germany due to his supposed negative
influence one of the group’s higher
profile and less sinister traditions is
a mass marriage called the blessing
ceremony which purports to wipe
participants slates clean of original
sin number 4 Hari Krishna members of
this Hindu based group lead a simple
existence where sex is for procreation
intoxication and gambling or been eating
meat is a no-no and chanting is a big
deal
during their heyday bald-headed robe
disciples were at every Airport and even
Beatle George Harrison was a member
during his lifetime though they remained
relatively free of scandal whisperings
of problems like child abuse and
brainwashing have emerged number 3
Branch Davidians after splitting from
the seventh-day Adventist Church
this movement came to revolve around the
self-proclaimed Messiah David Koresh and
an imminent Judgment Day rumors
circulated that Koresh abused underage
women and stockpiled weapons at their
Center in Waco Texas
the ATF tried searching the grounds in
1993 but was met with a gunfight and a
50-day siege that ended in a fire that
killed seventy six including Koresh
himself
youcome point gunman in the direction of
my wife my kids damn it I’ll meet you
through any time number two the Manson
Family Charles Manson recruited naive
hippies during the summer of love and
eventually they were living commune
style on a California ranch where free
love drugs Beatles tunes and ideas about
an apocalyptic race war ruled Manson
ordered his followers to kill for him
and in 1971 they were finally convicted
for the tate-labianca murders after that
they faded into obscurity until squeaky
Fromme tried assassinating Gerald Ford
in 1975 Ford had his hands out and was
waving
he looked like cardboard to me when
Fromme drew the gun she was quickly
wrestled to the ground
number one the People’s Temple Jim Jones
People’s Temple started as a
multicultural communist group out to
help the poor the organization
eventually tightened its grip on
disciples as it preached the coming
nuclear apocalypse members followed
Reverend Jones to Guyana
but when US authorities came knocking in
1978 members of the People’s Temple shot
first and asked questions later
the next day 918 drank the kool-aid only
it was laced with cyanide what all these
groups have in common our belief systems
that are difficult for outsiders to
understand which cults do you think
we’ve missed for more top 10 lists be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
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belief in a higher power
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 most well known cults for this list
we’ve defined a cult as a movement or
group that follows a set of beliefs that
others find strange or fail to
understand and that praises their leader
as a god-like figure some but not all
have negative connotations it means that
even the mind that you had as a human is
aborted number 10 5 1 Shree Rajneesh as
communities Jessica sees the sex guru
doesn’t mean it’s all fun and games this
indian spiritualist built an
international following by criticizing
more traditional belief systems and for
his open outlook on sexuality he drove
around his oregon-based commune in Rolls
Royces
but things declined when members
committed the United States first
bioterrorism attack by infecting salad
bars with Salmonella in order to swing a
local election their way number 9
order of the solar temple don’t join a
religion led by a neo-nazi started as an
extension of the Knights Templar the
group was led by Belgian Luc Jouret who
claimed to be the Messiah and sermonize
on the approaching end of days that
could only be avoided by joining the
temple eventually the group allegedly
sacrificed a baby claiming it was the
Antichrist and many members committed
suicide in the days that followed number
8 the ralien movement realism is
possibly the world’s largest UFO
religion founded in France in the 70s
this group believes that were descended
from aliens that overt sexuality is
awesome that cloning leads to
reincarnation and that mind transfer is
a thing they made headlines in 2003 when
a member of the group claimed to give
birth to the world’s first cloned human
but it was eventually revealed as a hoax
number seven heaven’s gate take
Christianity add a dash of sci-fi some
UFOs and what do you get
Heaven’s Gate leader Marshall Applewhite
believed Earth was going to be recycled
and the only way to escape was for their
souls to board a spaceship following the
hale-bopp comet
despite their stance against suicide he
and thirty-eight followers were found
dead dressed identically wearing
armbands that read Heaven’s Gate away
team we came from distant space and even
what some might call somewhat of another
dimension and we’re about to return from
whence we came number six on Shinrikyo
Shoko Asahara z’ group blurred the line
between terrorist organization and cult
this japanese group started innocently
as a yoga class soon it was an official
religion with 40,000 members that mesh
together aspects of other faiths
however negative publicity increased as
this religion for the elite started
hoarding weaponry things culminated with
a high-profile sarin gas attack on the
Tokyo subway that killed 13 number 5
unification Church critically nicknamed
Muniz Sun Myung Moon s Bible based
religion gained notoriety for aggressive
enrollment practices and alleged
brainwashing however the godlike
reverend moon was once arrested for tax
evasion and was briefly banned from
germany due to his supposed negative
influence one of the group’s higher
profile and less sinister traditions is
a mass marriage called the blessing
ceremony which purports to wipe
participants slates clean of original
sin number 4 Hari Krishna members of
this Hindu based group lead a simple
existence where sex is for procreation
intoxication and gambling or been eating
meat is a no-no and chanting is a big
deal
during their heyday bald-headed robe
disciples were at every Airport and even
Beatle George Harrison was a member
during his lifetime though they remained
relatively free of scandal whisperings
of problems like child abuse and
brainwashing have emerged number 3
Branch Davidians after splitting from
the seventh-day Adventist Church
this movement came to revolve around the
self-proclaimed Messiah David Koresh and
an imminent Judgment Day rumors
circulated that Koresh abused underage
women and stockpiled weapons at their
Center in Waco Texas
the ATF tried searching the grounds in
1993 but was met with a gunfight and a
50-day siege that ended in a fire that
killed seventy six including Koresh
himself
youcome point gunman in the direction of
my wife my kids damn it I’ll meet you
through any time number two the Manson
Family Charles Manson recruited naive
hippies during the summer of love and
eventually they were living commune
style on a California ranch where free
love drugs Beatles tunes and ideas about
an apocalyptic race war ruled Manson
ordered his followers to kill for him
and in 1971 they were finally convicted
for the tate-labianca murders after that
they faded into obscurity until squeaky
Fromme tried assassinating Gerald Ford
in 1975 Ford had his hands out and was
waving
he looked like cardboard to me when
Fromme drew the gun she was quickly
wrestled to the ground
number one the People’s Temple Jim Jones
People’s Temple started as a
multicultural communist group out to
help the poor the organization
eventually tightened its grip on
disciples as it preached the coming
nuclear apocalypse members followed
Reverend Jones to Guyana
but when US authorities came knocking in
1978 members of the People’s Temple shot
first and asked questions later
the next day 918 drank the kool-aid only
it was laced with cyanide what all these
groups have in common our belief systems
that are difficult for outsiders to
understand which cults do you think
we’ve missed for more top 10 lists be
sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
Samedi
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