He still has a handful of followers in Miami, though their activity appears to be mostly limited to “Yahweh-touting posts, anti-abortion memes, and homophobic scourges” on their Facebook page.
Things went okay for a while, and Yahweh even proved so popular that he got his own day in Miami, but then he started commanding his followers to kill for him, went to prison for conspiracy to commit murder, and died shortly after his release. left the Nation of Islam because it just wasn’t extreme enough for him, rechristened himself Yahweh ben Yahweh, and founded the Nation of Yahweh. Related: There's A Secret Second (And Evil) Catholic Church 6 The Nation of Yahweh They even hosted Donald Trump in 2021, though to be fair, he takes any opportunity to stand at a podium these days. Not only did the cult survive its leader's death in 2012, they’ve moved worryingly into American politics. The Unification Church, known to normal people as the Moonies, was founded in 1954 in South Korea by self-proclaimed messiah Reverend Sun Myung Moon and soon became famous for its mass weddings of total strangers. Related: 'Legends Of The Hidden Temple' Was Nightmare Fuel A few hundred members are somehow still around, but what they’re even up to is both anyone’s guess and extremely concerning. The heyday of the Knights Templar worshippers ended in the ‘90s, when its leader killed a whole family for naming their son the same name as one of his and then dozens of members died in a mass murder-suicide complete with a staging of the Last Supper.
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The Order of the Solar Temple is somehow both a doomsday cult and something out of The Da Vinci Code and exactly as creepy as that sounds.
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Related: 5 Real People More Terrifying Than Any Movie Villain 8 Order of the Solar Temple As recently as 2019, a guy injured eight people in an attempted vehicular homicide spree in retaliation for the executions the previous year, though his victims (that is, randos on the street) were almost certainly not responsible. (United States Public Health Service/Wikimedia Commons)Īum Shinrikyo was found to be behind the 1995 bioterrorism attacks on the Tokyo subway system and many of its members were sentenced to death, which is the sort of thing that tends to kill a cult, but they just changed their name to Aleph and terrorized on. More like Branch Dividians, right? Related: 5 Famous Historical Events You Won't Believe Happened Twice You might assume the Branch Davidian cult died when so many of its members, including the David in question, did during the 1993 siege of their Texas compound, and it did for a while, but a handful of members splintered off into two, uh, branches that still preach doomsday, one of which still occupies the site of the famous ranch. (McLennan County Sheriff's Office/Wikimedia Commons) Related: Ashes of Star Trek's Original Scotty Are Aboard the International Space Station 14 The Branch Davidians They’ve been known as the Family of Love, just the Family, and now the Family International, run by deceased leader David Berg’s wife, which they call “an online Christian network … committed to sharing the message of God’s love with people around the globe.” It’s not clear exactly how its 1,450 members do that, but their website has a whole page explaining without explaining that they super don’t abuse kids anymore, so there’s that. The creepy child sex cult formerly known as Children of God is nothing if not a veteran of rebranding. (Vice/Children of God/Family International/Wikimedia Commons)