The Creativity Movement

The Creativity Movement honestly sounds like a cute campaign that elementary schoolers participated in but the reality is far too crazy. The Creativity Movement was one of the most notorious hate groups in the 1990s, gaining publicity for its
rapid growth and the violence. It was a white-supremacist and xenophobic cult which advocated a religion known as the “White Religion” called Creativity. cult was founded as the Church of the Creator by Ben Klassen in 1973. In the summer of 1993, Klassen committed suicide. After the demise of its creator, Mathew F. Hale led the cult until his incarceration on 8th January, 2003 for scheming with an FBI informant Anthony Evola to murder a federal judge.

The True Way Cult

Now we are getting into UFO religion territory. A UFO religion is one which beliefs align with the idea that there is communication between humans and extraterrestrial beings. Chen tao or true way is a religion originating from Taiwan. This New Religious Movement was a mix of Buddhism, Taoism, and UFOlogy. They emphasized transmigration of souls and three souls per person, and placed great emphasis on spiritual energy. They also believed in “outside souls” who basically acted as bad influences in human world or even as demons. The group immediately broke apart as soon as a major prophecy was failed and televised globally.

Ho No Hana Sanpogyo

Ho-no-Hana-Sanpogyo was a Japanese new religious movement referred to as the “foot-reading cult” in the media. Indeed you read that correctly – a foot reading cult. The founder of the cult claimed that he was the reincarnation of both Jesus Christ and the Buddha. The reality was that he was a con-artist that would bring members into the cult and would drain them of every penny in the name of the betterment of the cult. New members were initiated into grueling conditions, forced to stay up for days and run around the streets yelling things that roughly translate to “I am living a happy and healthy life!” and “Fantastic!” Soon enough the founder was arrested on multiple accounts of fraud and the cult was history.

Freedomites

Among their many outlandish believes, freedoms opposed land ownership, public schools, using work animals, etc. and are mainly known for protesting nude. This Canadian cult was highly problematic as they engaged in arson and public sabotage to spread their message. It came to a point where they even got their children taken away from them.

Children of God

Fair warning: this cult is obscure even for this list. Basically this was a sex-centric hippie cult that preached the words of Jesus. This cult used their younger female teen members to lure in prospective members through sexual favors. They claim that sex wasn’t just sex, it was actually the spread of God’s love. The craziest concept that this church encouraged was having sex with children and they referred to it as a “divine right”. The founder of the cult has engaged in sexual activity with several of his DAUGHTERS on MULTIPLE occasions. According to him, “God created boys and girls able to have children by about 12 years of age”.

Order of the Solar Temple

The Order of the Solar Temple’s headquarters were established in Geneva, Switzerland in 1984. One of the main beliefs of the cult is that a sign of the end of the world would be the birth of a god-child. Di Mambro (the founder) had already given one of the children of his skeptic followers this title. The Order then stabbed the entire family to death with a wooden stake after given this information. Another belief that they had was that death was simply an illusion and that life continues on in another planet. Following the murder of “the anti-christ’s” family, members in the inner circle committed mass suicide and others were found mysteriously shot or smothered to death, all dressed in their ceremonial robes. Surprisingly, this cult is still active today.

The Narcosatanists

Separating themselves from the other cults on this list, The Narcosatanists were a drug cult. It was lead byAdolfo Constanzo and his “witch,” Sara Aldrete who are collectively responsible for at least 15 murders. Before meeting Aldrete, Constanzo had multiple male and female lovers who he began recruiting into his cult. The entirety of the cult consisted of drug smugglers. Their shocking philosophy was that by performing human sacrifices, it would protect them from police and even make them bulletproof.

The Manson Family

When one thinks of an infamous cult, one thinks of the Manson Family. The Manson Family famously murdered seven people over the course of two nights to incite a race war. The crimes committed by the Manson Family included multiple murders, torture, hostage-taking, and the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford. Manson claimed the members of the Family were the original Christians who had been reincarnated.

Church of the Most High Goddess

Mary Ellen Tracy was a former mormon and a High Priestess. Tracy claimed to have takes part in an ancient, misunderstood Egyptian religion in which sexual rituals put men on the ″path back to the divine.″ According to her, she had sex with over 2,000 men as part of a ritual of spiritual cleansing. As she accepted monetary donations for these acts, she faced prostitution charges and her “church” was seen as nothing more than a brothel.

Heaven’s Gate

Honestly, this was the first cult that I have ever heard of as I came across it on a conspiracy theory video but I digress. Heaven’s Gate was founded by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles in the early 70s. The followers or “the crew” were told that Applewhite was the second coming of Jesus Christ, the end of the world was upon them, and that God was an alien. Cult members cut off contact with their families and were put on a diet of lemonade, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup, in order to get rid of sexual thoughts. In March 1997, 39 members of Heaven’s Gate committed mass suicide as they were convinced that the sacrifice would allow them to leave their bodily “containers” and enter an alien spacecraft hidden behind the Hale-Bopp comet.