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Roch Thériault ([ʁɔk te.ʁjo]; May 16, 1947 – February 26, 2011) was a Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer. Thériault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name Moïse (French for "Moses"), founded the Ant Hill Kids in 1977. They were a doomsday cult whose beliefs were based on those of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
It is generally believed by Unification Church members that he was the Messiah and the Second Coming of Christ and was anointed to fulfill Jesus's unfinished mission. [ 35 ] Anne Hamilton-Byrne (born Evelyn Grace Victoria Edwards; 30 December 1921 – 13 June 2019), founder of The Family , Australia, claimed to have been the reincarnation of ...
Messianism is the belief in the advent of a messiah who acts as the savior of a group of people. [1] [2] Messianism originated as a Zoroastrian religious belief and followed to Abrahamic religions, [3] but other religions also have messianism-related concepts.
Krishna Venta (1911–1958), born Francis Herman Pencovic in San Francisco, founded the WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World cult in Simi Valley, California in the late 1940s. In 1948 he stated that he was Christ, the new messiah and claimed to have led a convoy of rocket ships to Earth from the extinct planet Neophrates.
The Cult of Obama used the new age lingo of people like Deepak Chopra precisely because they thought themselves “better” or more “enlightened” than what they saw as those sky god ...
The group has gone under a number of different names since its inception, including Teens for Christ, The Children of God (COG), The Family of Love, or simply The Family. A British court case found the group was an authoritarian cult which engaged in the systematic physical and sexual abuse of children, [ 2 ] resulting in lasting trauma among ...
Ezra Miller is the subject of a new Vanity Fair exposé, which looks at the 29-year-old actor's "dark spiral" over the past few years.More than a dozen people were interviewed for the lengthy ...
Jacob Joseph Frank [2] (Hebrew: יעקב פרנק; Polish: Jakub Józef Frank; [3] [4] born Jakub Lejbowicz; 1726 – 10 December 1791) was a Polish-Jewish [1] religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676) and also of the biblical patriarch Jacob.