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Cult

New religious movements(add under last paragraph)

The early start of cults (NRM) originated within Asia & Africa; and the majority of which have only a few members, now some have thousands and only very few have more than a million. The NRM within the continent of Asia differs from being questionable, bogus, spiritual, and dangerous. This popular NRM was founded by guru Sathya Sai Baba (see Sai Baba, Sathya) and based in India with over 30 million followers. It is a modernist and international neo-Hindu movement. This movement follows the styles of Hindu bhakti devotionalism, emphasizing an individual’s commitment to a specialized personified diet. The love from and the love to god is the main focal point of the religion and within scripture. Sathya Sai Baba's scripture and preaching, claim him to be a reincarnation of god. Some may call him a saint who was worshiped across all of India and some might call him a narcissist who took advantage and prayed upon lost people. He is also known to be able to perform materializations, making gold watches, rings, neckless, and vibhuti (holy ash) out of thin air. Recent allegations have aired of sexual misconduct, along with pedophilia, accusing Sathya Sai Baba of inviting young boys, specifically Westerners, for private interviews and performing a ritual where he would rub oil on their genitals. Ignoring the accusations of fraud and sexual misconduct, his followers remain loyal to their leader and god. In 2011, after being in the hospital due to respiratory complications and old age Sathya Sai Baba died on 24 April at 7:40pm. At his funeral over half a million people and followers attended. They are now waiting for his reincarnation.

Polygamist cults (add under paragraph as an example

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Lou Castro and Patricia Hughes

Angels' Landing was created and led by Daniel Perez also known as Lou Castro. Perez described himself as a "seer" and claimed to be a 1,000-year-old angel sent from God.  He would tell his followers, who were mostly young women that he could make it rain, was able to heal people and could see the future along with other mystical abilities brought upon him by god. Perez would preach that he needed to have sex with young girls to stay alive; his victims ranged in age from 8 to 16. During his years of power, he would collect thousands of dollars in life insurance policies from followers that would mysteriously die. In 2003 26-year-old Patricia Hughes who was an active follower of Perez died, the reported death was drowning at the group's compound outside of Wichita, Kansas, which was originally ruled an accident. But in 2012 Perez was ordered to stand trial on a charge of premeditated first-degree murder and was found guilty. He is also accused of 38 other crimes, which include rape, sodomy, sexual exploitation of a child, and making false statements on life insurance claims. Perez still claims that he is and was innocent of all the allegations, and also claims that he doesn't know where the millions of dollars his commune received came from. Perez was sentenced to life in prison at Lansing Correctional in Kansas.

Racist cults- add under paragraph

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Nation wide map of christan identity churches in the Untied States

Christian Identity Is a racial interpretation of Christianity created in the 1980s. It is a religion that is systematically racists and anti-semantic. They believe that white people, not Jews, are true Israelites favored by God in the Bible contrary to the Torah. They preach that those who are of the Jewish religion are biologically descended from Satan himself along with believing that non-white people are soulless "mud people".

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Black separatism

Black Separatist Ideologies solicit separate economic and cultural development for those who are of African descent within societies, extremely in the United States. These ideas oppose integration and racial intermarriage, along with wanting separate institutions and even a separate nation for Africans and African Americans. There were a total of 255 black separatist groups in the United States as of 2019. Most forms of black separatism are strongly anti-white and anti-Semitic. Both Martin Delany and Marcus Garvey started this movement in the 19th century, calling for African Americans to move back to Africa by moving to Liberia. Along with The Nation of Islam who calls for several independent black states on American soil.

Doomsday cults

^{As years went on he developed more followers and developed another church in California, he belived that moving would protect them in the event of the nuclear holocaust. In the 1970s he started creating a network amongst church leaders and politicians creating a name for himself. He soon collected thousands of followers many of whom were African American. Jones would share that he could read minds and heal with his faith. The Peoples Temple was very active throughout the community showing its humanitarian ways and views to the public. But within the church lies a different story. Temple members were routinely humiliated, beaten, blackmailed, and many brainwashed into signing over their possessions including their homes to the church. He projected his paranoia to his followers especially the Black members along with members of other minority groups, he convinced them that if they left the Peoples Temple that the government would put them into concentration camps.}

In 1977, after members in the press began to ask questions about Jones’s church and teaching, he moved several hundred of his followers to Jonestown, a compound that he had been building in Guyana for three to four years. As he and his followers were living in Guyana the local Guyanese administration exercised little to no control over the Jonestown community and culture.

In November 1978, U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan traveled to Guyana to inspect the Peoples Temple’s activities and the Jonestown compound. He was investigating the rumor of members being held against their will. When he visited the community several members joined him on his plane ride the next day. As he was leaving the temple many of the members tried to attack him and the followers left with him. He made it out of the compound safely along with the escaped followers. But as they pulled up to the plane the Temple members attacked Ryan and media press members. Five people, including Ryan and three members of the press, were shot and killed, and 11 others were wounded.

Once Jones “heard” about the shooting he commanded his followers to commit mass suicide. Jones called to order his “revolutionary suicide” plan at the compound, where the members had practiced already in the past, where they would drink a fruit drink that  was laced with cyanide, tranquilizers, and sedatives.

It was first poured into the mouths of babies and children using a syringe and then consumed by adult members. Jones killed himself by gun.