So I just learned about the Skoptsy and was wondering what other bizarre groups this board has encountered. For the sake of avoiding the really esoteric and the really obvious religion jokes shall we say groups with more than 500 but less than 500,000 members at one time?
Weirdest cults in history
Justin Reyes
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Jason Bailey
Posadism is brilliant - Trotskyism driven by UFOs, and viewing nuclear holocaust as pretty darn nifty.
Carson Wilson
Nicolaism. A very early Christian heresy that supposedly revolved around orgies and fucking. Nicolaites practiced polygamy and shared their women amongst themselves. Its founder Nicolas allegedly said "Unless one copulates every day, he cannot have eternal life." John of Patmos mentioned them in the Book of Revelation.
Most likely 90% things about them is just made up slander but who knows.
Luis Jackson
communism
Jason Nguyen
There's one from around 400AD in North Africa I forget the name of but they were basically rules-lawyering themselves into heaven via martyrdom.
So what they did was make themselves these gigantic wooden clubs and go around trying to beat up travelers in the hopes that the traveler would fight back and kill them, earning them a direct ticket to the kingdom of god.
There was one account of a traveler having this happen to him and going "okay I'll kill you all but you've gotta let me tie you up first so I know your buddies won't attack me after I kill the first guy", the cultists agreed and then after they were tied up the traveler beat them up and left.
They would also do stuff like the usual mass suicides in rivers and from cliffs, and also burning themselves at the stake, and running into a courthouse and disrupting the proceedings so that the judge would order them killed for contempt of court.
Eventually they were banned by the church for being obnoxious assholes, and just turned to regular banditry befor dying out by 500AD.
Henry Gonzalez
Sounds like 500 AD /pol/acks
Julian Brooks
>men cutting their cocks off
So, transgenders?
Jeremiah Morris
Robert Davis
That's literally what the Children of God/Family International cult preaches.
Ian Sullivan