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The term '''"destructive ]"''' sometimes called '''doomsday cult''' refers to a small number of religious groups that have intentionally killed people - either themselves or others. |
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The term "doomsday cult" literally only refers to a group that has as an important part of its belief system the expectation of the imminent advent of the ], but this ] is seen by some as increasing the chance of a violent, destructive outcome. {{ref|Hall_Schuyler1998}} |
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There are a handful of well-documented cases on record, and there is little controversy about them: |
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* The "Ant Hill Kids commune" formed by ] |
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* ] - ] |
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* the ] splinter ] formed by ] |
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* ] - ] (Called a cult by Czech Wiki and ) |
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* ] - ] |
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* ] - ] |
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* ] |
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* ] - ] |
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* ] - ] |
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* ] - ] and ] |
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'''Note on religious terrorist and paramilitary organizations''' |
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There is an ongoing debate about whether religious terrorist or paramilitary groups fit in categories like this. Some have deemed the ], and ] to be cults. Others refute the idea they qualify as destructive cults and feel terrorism or paramilitarism is still a better explanation. ''See ], ] and ].''' |
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] and ] are also disputed, but listed in the main group for now. In Takfir's case during the period of ]'s leadership, according to French scholar ], they lived as a series separatist religious communes. In these communes Shukri claimed religious power to arrange marriages, encourage withdrawal from society, and theologically reject the world. As for the LRA it also has increasingly emphasized a religious component that revolves around Kony's alleged mystic abilities. |
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==References== |
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{{note|Hall_Schuyler1998}} Hall, John R. and Philip Schuyler (1998), ''Apostasy, Apocalypse, and religious violence: An Exploratory comparison of Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, and the Solar Temple'', in the book ''The Politics of Religious Apostasy: The Role of Apostates in the Transformation of Religious Movements'' page 147 "Thus, apocalyptic religious movements may be especially prone to violence, but that tendency is only realized under specific additional conditions." edited by ] Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers, (1998). ISBN 0-275-95508-7, |
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==Charismatic figure in New Religious Movement of Destruction/Apocalypse Theme== |
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German psychologist, and a previously high-profile ], Heidi Fittkau-Garthe was charged in the Canary Islands with a plot of murder-suicide in which 31 cult followers, including five children, were to ingest poison. After the suicides, they were told they would be picked up by a spaceship and taken to an unspecified destination. |
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