New doomsday cult in Uganda!

Are you the type of over-reactionary person who thinks the world’s gonna end every time something bad happens? Move to Uganda! There, you’ll be right at home in the doomsday cult presided over by 37-year-old Francis Opwonya. Recent floods that have dislocated 300,000 Ugandans come in at #4 in his list of the 5 Signs of the Apocalypse:

  1. HIV/AIDS epidemic
  2. famine
  3. earthquakes
  4. floods
  5. hailstones
  6. ???
  7. Profit!

Oops, we got a little carried away with the list there. Anyway, we think it’s odd that the Signs of the Apocalypse get progressively weaker as you near the end – “not with a bang, but a whimper” – but we’re not going to be the ones to argue with cult leaders.

Mass cult grave in UgandaUgandan police arrested Opwonya and 11 other cult leaders in an attempt to crack down on the cult before any real damage is done, like what happened in March 2000 with the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, which burned alive hundreds of members, then systematically killed hundreds more in mass graves, for a total of between 800-1000 Ugandans after their end-of-the-world predictions failed to come true.

[Read Police raid doomsday cult born from floods at Reuters]
[Read about the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments at religioustolerance.org]

Posted on September 24, 2007 by Chris Walters |
 
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