The Religion & Cult Iceberg Explained

time for another totally non-controversial totally safe for youtube iceberg hello everybody and welcome back to windigoon today we are covering the religion and cult iceberg now i need to get a few things out of the way before we get started this iceberg does contain definitive cults however that doesn't mean everything on this iceberg is a cult per se the first ones that we're going to be looking at are just sort of fringe religious groups that don't really have that much of a following and whenever i talk about them i in no way want to get

across the point that they are a cult just because they're on this list as a matter of fact even as we go further down on this list some of the ones that we're going to run into are kind of structured weird so like you'll have sort of safe ideologies next to very not safe ideologies and i'm not really sure how that works so just because something's on here and even if it's on the same tier as a very dangerous or bad thing that doesn't mean that it itself is bad it just means if anything that

it's just not as well known also and i want to make this very clear i am not a theologist by any means uh some of these i've never heard of and educated myself in the past couple days over religions are very intensive and long spanning with their history and the reason practitioners do the things they do and what their belief is so in no way take me as like the final authority on these things as i'm getting my information through text whereas in the real life these ideologies made me much more one way in emotions

or the other or their practices could be much more spiritual or physical than i make them out to be or yadda yadda what i'm saying is if you're interested in any of these i encourage you to do your own research as i am in no way the final authority on what these religions mean like i said before this video is for educational purposes and for entertainment so i'm not saying anything on here to be offensive to anyone or to tell you or educate you on what your own religion or what someone else's might be this

is entirely a sort of gloss over basic concepts of these ideologies and i hold full respect to all involved at least until we get to the bottom tiers where i don't hold any respect for them but we'll get to that speaking of bottom tiers this is your viewer discretion i will be more specific as we get closer but right now saying there are going to be very intense themes in the bottom tiers as we go from sort of like rare religions down to specific events in which people were hurt in very extreme ways in some

cases so this is your warning now there will be a warning then but fewer discretion advised if you're not okay with heavy topics you may want to set this one out or at least set it out whenever we get to the bottom there will be time stamps for each tier in the description so there's your disclaimers we've got a lot to cover so let's get into it but as always thank you for watching so i'm going to do something that i've never done and i'm going to skip the first two tiers of this iceberg the

reason for it is they're just religions that are rather well known like tier one had things like catholicism and buddhism and tier two had like mormonism and certainism and those are common religions that we're all familiar with the purpose of this is to kind of look at things that you may not be familiar with or at least i wasn't familiar with before so like i said we're gonna skip the first two and move into the first niche ideologies with tier three so starting with tier 3 is scientology scientology is something that you're definitely familiar with

if you've been on the internet for a while and is a religion that was founded by l ron hubbard the basic faith belief system of scientology is that we as humans are actually thetans that was created by an alien known as xenu who put us on earth several million years ago and will one day come back to take us away from it she knew themselves exist as a member of the galactic confederacy and the actual canon for scientology is known as the space opera what most people are interested in is the church's interactions with the

world around them like for example the number of celebrities that are a member of the church as well as super secret shady undergoings that happen within the church leading several people to believe that it's all a front for some greater new world order illuminati conspiracy thing stack on top of that stories of abuse have happened in the church as well as cover-ups that have happened with people who have passed away by odd circumstances one of the most famous interactions is tom cruise who publicly shamed people for using medicine and psychiatrists saying that the church is

teaching should be all you need and yeah stuff like that it just gets kind of weird nation of islam was founded by wallace mohammed in chicago i also want to say this now because it applies to this one if at any point i say that something has say core christian values or core church of latter-day saint values it in no way means that this group is representative of the whole of that ideology to give you an example that you may be more familiar with the kkk for example had beliefs that came off of the hebrew

christian judaic prophecy but they are in no way representative of christianity across the world as a whole the same applies to this so at any point i say that this has ideas of islam or judaism or whatever it's just saying that they share some of the values with those people not that they are what all of those people are making sure the reason i specify that now is because nation of islam is a very fringe group that believes in full black supremacy they believe that african americans are the true chosen people of god and that

white people specifically were created thousands of years ago as an experiment by an evil scientist no i'm not kidding so by that logic why people are fake and have no souls and according to their belief one day god will come back and take exclusively the african americans in heaven and leave all of the soulless people to die i guess they're also super conservative in their belief system saying that people should dress appropriately and wear very straight edged attire and have since opened up the nation to different races as long as you're not white christian science

was founded off of the book science and health by mary eddie the basic concept is that sickness isn't real and is instead an illusion and through prayer alone you can get rid of all sickness this belief system has kind of died down in recent years with modern proponents saying that well i guess medicine helps but only if you also pray about it and has worked its way into other natural sciences as well levain satanism was founded by anton lebaye the core principles of the religion come from frederick nietzsche and anne rand basically ideas that nothing

really matters and humans should live communally the thing about levant satanism that not a lot of people get is while it does share the name it is not a direct worship of satan himself instead it's more so of a worship of humanity itself the religion is very materialist and they don't have any beliefs in worshiping a higher god or power instead just existing and if it feels good do it as well as pertaining some aspects of magic beliefs they are very similar to the beliefs of the antichrist even if inadvertently so see a lot of

people have the idea that the antichrist in biblical prophecy is just an evil figure that acts like the devil but in actuality it is a forerunner for the devil that instead turns people to look at themselves instead of god so in that fashion levain satanism kind of falls in line with that as a way of getting people to focus on the inward man rather than the outward body or outward spirit i don't know that's just an interesting parallel that i found while researching this that while not directly worshiping satan it is technically through cause and

effect getting across the point of satan so potato tomato amish old order is what a lot of people think of whenever they think of amish in general however if you thought regular amish were strict in only wearing certain materials old order amish aren't allowed to wear things like buttons zippers or bright colors not only that but men are not allowed to cut their beards as women are not allowed to cut their hair and they maintain more traditional ideas such as a very hardcore belief in christian pacifism as in fighting is a last-life's last resort and

they don't maintain church bodies instead choosing to worship at members houses from time to time as in the whole idea that god is not a place instead of body of people fulangong is a buddhist taoist mix that popped up in china despite being a very peaceful religion of meditation and independence as well as examining the inner self the chinese government did not take kindly to a fast-growing religion that they did not have control of so therefore in 1999 they locked down the religion and made it illegal with no exaggeration china literally killed thousands of fulangong

members in jail with rumors even persisting that their bodies were used for the underground chinese organ trade it's an example of extreme religious prejudice within a country's government hoodoo is the root of the very popular or at least famous voodoo the roots of hudu are very interesting as they came from african countries into the american south and mixed with the indigenous culture at the time and created this sort of blend between two different kinds of native beliefs even some of the beliefs in gods and spirits can be seen as a sort of combination between african

islam and american christianity while there is a core belief system what hudu is most known for is its practicality and magic and how performances of rituals and spells can lead to physically obtainable things in the real world messianic jews are essentially jewish traditions that believe in the messiah or jesus or in other words it is the religion of judaism but they also incorporate the new testament it's an interesting example of sort of a middle ground that's met between two supposedly entirely different religions is khan stands for the international society of krishna consciousness iskan holds several

traditional indian beliefs such as vishnu and krishna however they are much more physical with their interpretation of it partaking of their worship primarily through versions of singing and dance because of this festivals are a very important part of the iskcon tradition however despite this they're very reserved in other ideas such as they do not partake of any premarital kiffing gambling or intoxicants also in the disturbing movie iceberg everyone was confused by kiss for some reason it's the word kiss pronounced like mike tyson so kiss and i use it to not get demonetized whenever i'm talking

about naughty stuff and like it or not if i'm doing this full time i i want to be monetized you'll be familiar with gnosticism if you watch the conspiracy theory iceberg however for those that don't gnosticism is essentially christianity with a polytheistic idea of lesser gods what that means is yes christ and the godhead exist however there are the smaller gods that are in charge of doing certain things on earth and the reason that bad things happen on earth is because earth was made by an evil god besides that a lot of it's sort of

more like magic spiritual sense than standard christianity like for example instead of sin and redemption they more so follow the ideas of illusion and enlightenment saying that things are not necessarily wrong they're just not understood opus dei from all of my research just seems to be a sort of laid-back version of catholicism like for example they don't partake in big church gatherings or mass and while they believe in the teachings of catholicism they more so believe that every person themselves is a layman or worker for god and the organization itself is much smaller with the

entire thing having about 2 000 priests kabbalah is often described as jewish mysticism put shortly it's about understanding the barrier between god and man in other words there is this sort of fabric that exists around us that separates us from the higher realm of being so a lot of this ideology is a way of sort of meditating or introspection in order to rise to the next plane of thought neo-shamanism is a new iteration of native american beliefs it's sort of an amalgamation of several different native tribes now in the modern sense through being able to

be connected have sort of established an overall pantheistic canon of their religion in other words using the knowledge gained by other tribes neo-shamans kind of put together this entire idea of how the world works how the spirit works how healing works and things like that sratu hinduism is hinduism however there is a very heavy reliance in rituals over beliefs or basically doing specific acts is more important than simply believing or saying something as you can imagine rituals are a big deal within the religion as well as oral traditions which are passed down instead of written

or transcribed as a standard with most religions that is it with tier three we are now on to tier four starting with hardline the letter that youtube won't let me say because it's dumb for some reason annan blank annan rose to popularity in recent years after the american 2016 election the basic belief is that all of the world's elites are conspiring in a sort of secret society in order to maintain control of the world from behind the veil this cabal of the elite is responsible according to annan's theories of everything from human abductions to the

results of world elections it's very reliant on the ideas of secret societies being proliferated across the world five percent nation was started by a man named clarence smith who left the nation of islam clarence smith felt very led by malcolm x who was an at the time big member in the nation of islam to go and start his own group which he called five percent nation or nations of gods and earths five percent nation was basically nation of islam only even more so clarence renamed himself allah the father and the word five percent nation comes

from the idea that 85 of the world is ignorant 10 of it is evil and only 5 percent know the truth and are good enough to change it speaking of being nation of islam only more so rather than just thinking that white people were created as an experiment according to five percent nation white people are literally demons that have rosen up from hell as a means of destroying god's people and it's basically a fringe offshoot of an already fringe offshoot muslim brotherhood's on here i know it originates in egypt however i am not qualified to

talk about this nor was i able to find information that made me feel like i was qualified to talk about this so rather than sounding dumb i'm just gonna skip it sorry peyote religion is the name often attributed to the native american church what's interesting is the native american church kind of came as a result of christian missionaries coming to the native tribes so instead of believing in several spirits they believe in the great spirit which according to members is synonymous with jesus christ the reason they're called the peyote religion is because they believe that

peyote can be used as a gateway to speak to the great spirit or to at least escape this realm of existence for a limited time because of this in the majority of their practices and worship services peyote is used cargo cults was really interesting and i'd never heard of before researching this post world war ii there were specific groups of people specifically in melanesia who were gifted gifts by more technologically advanced societies such as the united states and great britain upon coming back to deliver these people more gifts it was found that they were imitating

the acts of the soldiers that were there whenever they were brought the first round of goods so in other words whenever the ships would show back up they would be holding sticks like rifles and walking around in troop formation thinking that by mimicking the people that brought them gifts they could bring them back it's a very interesting sort of like glass bubble of how a society would react if not given any information about how things like that carry out or how technology advances it's a really cool rabbit hole to go down if you're interested church

of subgenius kind of exists as a parody of religion their prophet j.r bob dobbs was a door-to-door salesman get it goes religion he's a salesman and according to them all other religions of the world are a part of a greater conspiracy in order to keep smart thinking people down but at the same time they believe in a lot of popular gods their main god is known as jehovah one but they also believe in like odin and other deities i guess what's interesting is while this kind of feels like a church of the flying spaghetti monster

thing it seems as if some people actually believe in the religion nowadays that or i just took the bait either way good on you chaos magic is a modern name given to result based magic or in other words rather than getting sort of ideas or self enlightenment or something like that out of magic you get a very physical obtainable goal this is what a lot of people think in their head whenever they think of magic itself while there are beliefs they're kind of secondary to the point and chaos magic users will actually manipulate their belief

system in order to get whatever result they want society for ethical culture is the godless religion they believe that morality exists apart from faith and therefore people do not need to be faithful or believe in a god in order to be good people they have churches and services but rather than talking about a specific god or worship they instead talk about how to better yourself and how to be a better person they're big on concepts such as motivation and philanthropy and believe that the individual should always strive to be the best they can regardless of

whatever higher order tells them to or not mandatism is hard to put a pin on but the chief idea is that sort of like a gnostic abrahamic faith sort of in the quran it mentions people way way back who could have been a sort of mandais although it's not confirmed and their main distinction from abrahamic ideas such as christianity and islam is that they are very spiritual with their ideas such as they believe that after death you go to the worlds of light which is what we see whenever we look at stars as well as

believing in energy of areas such as old world which is where they make the majority of their stay however it's hard to kind of figure out a ton about them as they're very secretive and there's not a lot of members so make of that what you will remova can best be described as lithuanians before christianity or in other words it was lithuanians with a much more polytheist sort of pagan idea of what god is a lot of their beliefs come from baltic folklore and there is a big emphasis on nature and ancestry so rather than

so much worshiping a one god deity it is more so ideas of worshipping what is around you and the people who came before you chinese underground church is essentially western christianity in communist china see religions that do not directly answer to the chinese government are illegal and while they may allow it to exist to some capacity if a church gets to any degree to actually call itself a church they'll immediately shut it down because of this underground churches or house churches as they're called meet in the houses of certain members this is as a way

to avoid persecution and as far as french religions go they have to be if they want to stay operating we are now on to tier 5 which is getting into a bit more of the sort of out there ideas you'll see what i mean the first of tier five the igbo jews which is essentially judaism incorporated into the igbo people of nigeria follow to every degree traditional judaism however the difference is they believe that they themselves are the chosen people of god or in other words they think themselves to be the true israelites said the

people of israel which is the reason they practice judaism so intently and then on the other side of the spectrum we have christian identity which is the idea that only whites such as anglo-saxons and germanics are the descendants of abraham and therefore god's chosen people however this isn't really a religion as much as it is an idea that exists in some religious groups and some of the other ideas they get into are also weird like serpent seed doctrine which i talked about that in the iceberg you can look that one up for yourself and as

with most of the things on here it is generally shunned by the majority of people who practice their religion as well raelism is the idea that humans are not existent as the product of some deity but were instead invented by an alien known as elohim because of that oddly enough it's an atheistic religion believing that there is no god and we are simply the results of a sort of science experiment according to them elohim sent down 40 prophets in order to foretell whenever he would come back to take his experiments with him and among these

40 prophets were buddha and jesus general consensus is that they are strong proponents of science and also believe in the ancient aliens theory or the idea that aliens came down and started humanity as we know it and they hoped to find immortality through the use of cloning so that's cool wahhabism is from all the information i combined conservative islam however much like the brotherhood one i mentioned earlier there was not enough information for me to find anything substantial to say about it and rather than looking like an idiot i'm just going to move on aum

shinrico also known as aleph is a controversial group to say the least they incorporate elements from shiva to general christianity to yoga and even nostradamus with one of their main proponents being that of a doomsday prophecy or more specifically that the us is the beast mentioned in the book of revelations that will bring it into the known world because of this certain extremists of the group were responsible for the tokyo sarin attacks of 1995 that killed several innocent people however even though that happened and we're going to see examples later on in the list of

groups that it can't really be argued that the whole group wasn't in agreeance of the bad thing that happened i will say for this one that it seems the majority of people of the group disagreed with the attacks and i don't want to condemn an entire ideology off of the actions of a few so just making that clear santa muerta is pretty much a female personification of death quite literally a skeleton that is dressed up in females clothes and believed to be a sort of harbinger of death that is to be worshiped it's another example

of mexican and spanish culture having a very rooted belief in ideas of death all the way from the day of the dead celebrations to things that the spanish inquisition saw whenever they first came over it's a modern concept of worshiping death in a very upbeat and charismatic mood as what one might expect lighter rain is a movement that has happened in some pentecostal churches after world war ii it essentially reincorporated the idea that in the modern sense the spirit can interact directly with humanity as a means of performing physical actions or in other words one

can become holy spirit filled and do things such as healing or speak in tongues it was a response to the evangelical revival which had just occurred and was one of the first parts of something known as the charismatic movement or as historians call it the age in which religion became popular with the idea of words and catches in order to get new converts in shugendo is an interesting combination of folk religion and buddhism a lot of their belief resides in the supernatural and even the idea that if one gets close enough to ideas of buddhism

that they can obtain these sort of supernatural powers what's really cool about the religion is they exist in the majority at least in mountain ranges across japan so their temples are hidden in the backs of these giant mountain ranges so you can just be going over a completely green area and then there's a giant temple in front of you it's a pretty neat idea dalit buddhism is an indian reinterpretation of buddhism it goes directly against the idea of the indian caste system and promotes the ideas of equality amongst people it also exists as more of

a physical religion than most or in other words ideas aren't so much about spiritualism and praying as much as actions and action in public said a vacant tivos probably how you pronounce it is an offshoot of catholicism who believes that the holy seed position or in other words the pope has been left empty for several years different groups have different ideas of how long it's been gone some dating back to the 20s others recently as the 80s but the general consensus is that the catholic church as it is now is not saying what the catholic

church should and therefore the leader is a sort of false prophet and they don't believe in the pope we'll see more specific examples of this later on in the list new avianism was started by dwight york in 1991 and exist as a kind of ufo religion dwight york managed to grow the religion to such a degree that in putnam county georgia he built a complex known as tamare which was inspired off the egyptian pyramids most of their ideas revolved around the idea that aliens have been interacting with human society for a long time and that

we need to prepare for their return however we'll never know how that went because the group was disbanded in 2004 when ever dwight was sentenced to 135 years in kisen for finance fraud and touching kids so yeah the cult of angels or yazdanism as it's called is essentially a form of pre-islamic kurds or in other words how the kurdish people existed before islam came into the region they believe in zoroastrianism and the annunaki which are a specific version of the ancient aliens concept and their belief system is interesting as they have a sort of pantheon

in which they accept several different ideas of the abrahamic faith and in practice they incorporate both the bible and the quran we are now on to tier vi and here we go the moore's science temple is an offshoot of islam that believes that african americans are the direct descendants of the moabites yep the organization was started by noble ali who said he met with an egyptian priest who said that he was blessed and an incarnation of a prophet that was made in order to lead his people the group itself is very mystic with ali himself

saying that he has found a version of the koran that has been lost to everyone else and they won't really let anyone else read it and it's the book for their religion so yeah was interested in researching this there was one article i was reading i forget from where where it was talking about this group and it's like noble ali made this in order to give the african-americans of the community something to do i'm like are you sure about that i don't think so i think he wanted to be gone fundal enemies pull it fundamentalist

polygamous desert fundamentalist polygamous desert compound mormons are the extreme conservative branch of mormonism that is shunned by the entirety of mormonism mormonism itself was founded by joseph smith however from the original teachings the religion has come a long way that is not however the case with the specific group of mormons that we're talking about these specific very conservative groups of mormons believe in things such as polygamy continuous revelations or in other words at any point someone can have a word from god and therefore add on to the canon of scripture and united order commune which

is just a way of saying people should exist within a commune there are very few of these no more than a total of 10 000 and all of these people have been excommunicated from the actual church of latter-day saints for the practice of polygamy so yeah ringing cedars anastasianism was started in russia in 1997. it comes from a book called the ringing cedars of russia in which the author said he met a person in the woods known as anastasia who was a deity who then told him how the world truly operates the religion itself believes

in a very holistic belief in what god in the world is and that they all exist as sort of an intertwined being and the actual word itself ringing cedars comes from the idea that there are subtle vibrations that exist everywhere and that is the interconnected layer that holds all of the world together also this religion normally lives together in the sort of commune settlements primarily around the taiga area of the siberian wilderness appalachian snake churches came off the holiness movement at the turn of the century the majority of practitioners come from the pentecost faith and

the whole thing exists itself as another part of the charismatic movement i talked about earlier the guy who started it george hensley drove from place to place encouraging more and more people to do snake handling the core belief of it comes from the disciples in the new testament whenever jesus tells them that they don't have to fear snakes they can pick them up and they won't be hurt and the story of whenever several people are bit by dangerous snakes on the island of i believe malta with paul and paul says that they'll all be healed

so george took that idea and applied it to the modern day and he doubled down and said that if anyone is bitten and killed by a venomous snake then they just weren't faithful enough to which in 1955 george was bitten and killed by a venomous snake snake handling is very dangerous a lot of people die doing it so much so to the point there's been legislation in many states and in kentucky where they specifically said snakes cannot be used for religious purposes mooney's also known as the unification movement comes from its founder sun moon they're

most known as being the group of people that has the mass weddings but they also have some other interesting traditions such as they're one of the only new religions to have a completely original text as well as specific flag that is draped over members of the church's casket at funerals according to their core belief jesus could not complete his mission on earth because he was killed before he could have children because of this sun moon the religion's founder is the reincarnation of jesus and the new messiah and they basically just operate as a normal religion

outside of that with just the belief that they have a current living messiah ravita's path also known as vedesia is a sort of spiritualistic belief that originated in india they hold a lot of respect for the religious gurus and hold a belief that the human soul is a part of god itself the religion was closely identified with sikhism until in 2009 a group of six killed a guru of ravi diaz ravi ready i can't pronounce it and now they're not so closely related with six anymore as you could imagine michael teachings is a sort of

belief system that originated from a ouija board game played in the 1970s in san francisco a group of friends were playing with the ouija board in which someone who identified themselves as michael began talking to them on subsequent sessions michael continued to talk to them to which they began to write down his teachings and then published all of them into a book that started its own belief system and if you're curious what the teachings are basically uh be agape love everybody and psychology is important and that's what i got out of it anti-israel zionist i'll

be honest i didn't understand i thought that it was saying that zion as in the land of israel is important and the people that are living there aren't but then i saw something else that said it wasn't important and to be honest again i'm just not sure about this one so i will leave this to you all right here we are tier 7 and we are getting into the good stuff greek orthodox old calendar is one of the pettiest departures i've ever seen and i normally wouldn't say that about an entire religion but from everything

i've read like come on guys so from everything i read greek orthodox old calendar is the exact same as greek orchestra dogs only they disagree on the calendar so you could be asking yourself how much does that old calendar matter they did not in the 1500s want to make the transition from the julian calendar to the revised julian calendar what's the difference well according to the revised julian calendar if a year is divisible by 100 it is not a leap year unless of course when divided by 900 it comes out to two or six hundred

what difference does that make well from now until the year 2800 it will be one day the reason the calendar was revised like that was because it would basically line people up with the gregorian calendar however greek orthodox calendar said no and they kept their old calendar and it is an entirely separate religion to this day because they didn't want to change the leap years cool the ghost dance is a concept that was incorporated into several western native american traditions ghost dance is believed to sort of been an offshoot of round dancing only done in

a more sacred spiritual manner as a way of contacting either the dead or the spirits this would be done by the native americans to receive everything from guidance to battle preparedness to even the halt of westward expansion this was started by a native named jack wilson who worked as a sort of prophet going from tribe to tribe teaching people the ghost dance the ghost dance itself was very malleable with some groups taking certain parts of it and adapting it to their culture and others taking just the ideas and it kind of worked its way to

be a part of several different cultures that was until it made its way to the lakota tribe see jack taught the lakota tribe shortly before the battle of wounded knee in which the natives were massacred by the white settlers because of this several tribes that jack traveled to afterwards did not want to incorporate it thinking that it may be some sort of bad omen for example the navajo never took part in it and because of this the dance just kind of faded out and it's not really practiced to any real regards now however the traces

of it can be taken back to the roots of several different native ideologies branch davidians were began by a man named david koresh in waco texas david koresh believed himself to be the forerunner of christ and that he was set up as a way to foretell of the coming doomsday in order to be ready for it david koresh assembled his people into one commune that existed in waco texas with the basic idea of giving up worldly pleasures and hope for spiritual enlightenment of course that didn't stop him from playing music and drinking and being the

only one in the commune who was allowed to have children but again that's neither here nor there to those around the commune they said that koresh and the branch davidians were very american and just seemed like your average old group of people however the people were propelled to a state of infamy when in 1993 the atf attempted to raid the compound in hope of finding illegal weapons however during the raid the atf killed 76 people the majority of them being women and children and needless to say that was the end of the branch davidians because

remember kids there's no law so trivial that the government won't kill you for it the problem that happens with the branch davidians is a lot of people sort of justified because don't get me wrong david koresh was a horrible person it is a known fact that he was abusing at least two children within the compound however if you're trying to keep children from being abused maybe the solution isn't to kill all of them just a thought moving on mhfm stands for the most holy family monastery this is an example of the set of vacant fake

and tests the things that don't believe in the pope that i mentioned earlier in fillmore new york what's interesting is the ways they sort of circumnavigate the catholic church like for example all of their communion and their priests has to be brought down from the catholic church in order to officially be catholic but since they don't believe in the pope they don't want to do it through the vatican so they get a sort of byzantine moderator to technically like sanctify it and in 2020 they got so fed up with the catholic church that they said

it is heresy to attend a pope ordained catholic service also in research for some reason i kept finding information that they denied the holocaust so okay go off i guess one law hebrew roots is essentially evangelical christianity with the torah from judaism what that means is they really push home a lot of the old testament ideas that were prevalent in judaism such as the sabbath and the ten commandments and they even believe off of the ideas before that this is the natural conclusion before the return of christ they believe that the first step of the

modern western american church was that of holiness and then faith healing and then charismaticness and now judaism meaning that if they continue to act this way it will speed up the return of christ independent scientology also known as the free zone has all of the beliefs of scientology with none of the organizational part they go off of the saying the work was free keep it so implying that the church of scientology is so caught up with money and politics that's not existing as a religion anymore so this is a group of people that kind of

do away with the concept that the entire idea of scientology was made up just to be made up because they don't want anything to do with the organization they just believe in the ideas of xenu and the space opera in research for this uh the church of scientology called them squirrels to their face which is so wild and funny like it was an interview asking them about what they think of like the free zone scientologist and the church leaders like oh you mean the squirrels raj nish also known as osho began a new religion commune

in oregon the core beliefs of the religion were kind of weird like it's sort of the idea that everyone can get there in their own kind of way and some ideas of christianity some of islam yadda yadda however it seemed to me like the core reason of this religion existing was so that rajonesh could have power and this is kind of supported by the salmonella attacks that occurred in the nearby town of antelope oregon in which rajonesh's followers poisoned hundreds of people with salmonella as a means of somehow winning the election in rajneesh's favor which

didn't work and rajneesh got deported and a bunch of people got arrested other core ideas of the religion were like families bad because the idea is that you focus on your spiritual self rather than children so parents who join this religion would leave their kids behind in order to follow rajonesh around and also free love and stuff like that was encouraged just don't get married the freedomites are essentially a group of true communal anarchists existing in saskatchewan canada they're against everything from land ownership to public schools and using animals for work and are most famously

known for protesting nude in the belief that the human body is a perfect creation and clothes are imperfect so therefore being naked is the perfect existence and other than that they just exist on communes and try their best to live autonomously the source family started by father yad is often equated as being one of the first examples of the organic hippie idea the family as it's called were very into an idea known as the age of aquarius which is basically this overarching idea in astrology what's way more interesting than that is the weird ideas that

father god came up with for example the band he started yahuwah 13 was recorded and played in a restaurant he owned and was used as a means of spreading his message he started this organization that eventually grew to 150 members out of a three-bedroom house in l.a also more weird details about him uh he possibly murdered jean ingram's husband so that he could sleep with her and speaking of sleeping with or should i say kissing with he had 14 wives to which he had children by nearly all of them and he died in a hang

gliding accident because having never hang glided before he assumed he could do it in which he could not he may have been like a really bad dude in real life i don't know these stories were just too funny to not laugh at reactive satanism is probably what you think of whenever you think of the word satanism also referred to as adolescent satanism it is the idea of taking true accounts of the satanism from christianity and simply inverting the values for example believing that satan is lucifer the king of evil and the prince of darkness and

that he should be praised for it the core beliefs of the people is that evil is good and we should perpetuate as much horribleness in the world as we can as a means of circumventing the sort of status quo while a lot of this can be seen as sort of edgy behavior it doesn't change the fact that they are perpetuating bad things to happen to people or at the very least bad advice and is the definitive and literal saint worship we are now on to tier viii and we are officially at the point that i

do not feel bad calling these people out anymore starting with the burgholes barbers this is in reference to a specific sect of the amish tradition that was started by sam mullet in burkholtz ohio if you thought old order amish were strict sam mullet started a new society because he did not think they were strict enough while i couldn't find specific details on actions or practices that he did throughout his teachings it was to the point that whenever he set himself up as the chief bishop of a new commune only one would show up when you're

supposed to have three in traditional amish belief which led future bishops to think that maybe he's not actually supposed to be a bishop whatever the case mullen excommunicated a deacon to which nine members of the commune then decided to leave to which he then excommuted each one of them keep in mind a couple things for one there was only like 40 people in the entire commune at the time and excommunication is a big deal because in the amish belief if you're excommunicated by one group you cannot rejoin to any group so that wasn't just mullet

saying you can't come back here that's him saying you can't be amish anywhere which is a big deal this was such a point of contention that after several failed investigations eventually 300 bishops from different amish communities came together and made the ruling that the mullet excommunications were nolan void because he was too hard on them for the excommunication mullet did not like this one bit and shortly after the beard attacks began as mentioned earlier beards are a big deal in the amish tradition so people from mullet's group ran around breaking into people's houses and violently

cutting their beards off which is how they got the name of the burkholz barbers eventually they were arrested along with malt himself and charged with hate crimes and each served jail sentences some of the traditions were weird too like it was very apparent that they did not identify as christian even though they supposedly held the christian beliefs of jesus and what not they made sure sunday was not a big deal there was no sabbath for some reason they stuck to the old testament which again makes the sabbath thing more confusing and then oddly enough kissing

was totally fine not totally fine it's not like it was encouraged but whereas in other groups it was a shameful thing they just didn't care which why be so strict about the other stuff but whatever children of god which is now rebranded as the family international was a sort of apocalyptic cult they had ideas of salvation through self and through each other with an overarching idea that the world around them or the system was always coming to get them children of god is rather well known for the controversies they ran into and rightfully so as

one of the group's main ideologies was that of yeah like free love at all times with whoever you want at any point feel free there's a documentary of them on netflix in which in the documentary you can see at random times all over the place this didn't just extend to people within the community this extended to their idea of god so much so that one of their tree strategies in order to get new converts was something called flirty fishing in which the women were encouraged to go out and be street hookers and then after doing

the stuff use the opportunity to tell them about god i hate it here to give you an idea of how awful they were their bible tracks that they would hand out would get held up as custom agencies because it was pornography the group was eventually shut down and several arrested or at least the original group was over pedophilia charges as this whole idea of free love didn't exactly care about age of consent laws and the founder david berg eventually died although the now rebranded family international is in this weird hypocritical stage where they both support

his teachings and then deny he did anything wrong while also accepting that pedophilia is wrong and then denying that he did it which he did and it's it's so dumb it's weird a lot of the stuff that i'm not mentioning here is really gross as i mentioned earlier there's a documentary on netflix which if you're interested is worth your time called the children of god but uh yeah really gross people moving on the people's temple also known as the people's temple of the disciples of christ is the infamous jim jones cult the core beliefs of

the idea was this combination of christianity and communism however that really didn't matter because the real core belief was whatever jim jones said jim jones was charismatic and he sort of had this real end tactic in which he would get people interested in his society and then eventually entrap them there while the group was located in san francisco they had several instances of people trying to get away by whatever means or else knowing they would be hunted down by members of the society eventually facing public scrutiny jim jones along with several of his followers moved

to guana in south america and started their hometown which was named very humbly jonestown by 1978 there were over 900 people in the commune that was until representative leo ryan investigated with a journalist team on accounts of child abuse occurring there while investigating a few members of the commune came up to the representative and said they wanted to leave with him to which the representative allowed them while trying to leave from a nearby airstrip members of jonestown came over with guns and killed the representative three journalists and one of the jonestown members later that evening

realizing that he wasn't going to get to play god anymore except for this one last time he had the entire commune drink cyanide lace kool-aid killing a total of 918 people jim jones himself being one of them it's a very frustrating case because it's always just felt to me like because he realized he lost he wanted everyone else to lose too and it's also an example of what one person with the right words and enough manipulation can get away with nike and heresies was kind of hard to find something on i believe this is in

reference to the nicean creed it's basically an idea that comes from the roots of orthodox christianity and puts away ideas such as aryanism which is the idea that christ exists in between that of being a god and man a pulanarianism which is the idea that christ had no soul neostarianism which is the idea that christ had two souls one from human and one from god and euthanism which is the idea that christ was god and therefore couldn't be a sacrifice for man and it's basically just four rules saying that we do not believe these things

therefore christ can be what it says he is in the bible so i'm guessing that this would be believing in those four things or one of those four things which would essentially be with like christianity without christ i don't know make your own inference siberian old believers are eastern orthodox christians maintaining the beliefs of the russian church or in other words they still hold fast to the ideas of ancient greek translations and old world customs rather than new ideas of what christianity's supposed to be also every example i could find of them exists in the

middle of nowhere like traveling hundreds of miles through the siberian wilderness you would find a small church and you could probably bet yourself that it's a siberian old believer which is why they have the name siberian old believers nix vm was a company that was used as a front for a kif cult on the surface it was a multi-level marketing scheme however beneath the service there's a group known as the dominus obsequious sororium i'm not pronouncing that it went by dos dos essentially the leader of the company had been taking in women and keeping them

as slaves all the way to the point of branding his name on them in which other higher up levels of the company also had slaves and yeah gross this entire thing was outed in 2018 and was one of the first mainstream examples of trafficking existing in higher level elitist circles the soldiers of heaven are as an islamic doomsday cult existing in iran they hold the belief that their god will return if enough damage is caused on earth therefore they want to cause a lot of damage on earth there are very very few of them less

than 1 000 and the majority of them exist as farmers without really the means to do so however it's a belief of several iranian officials that this group or ideology could be dangerous if given the means to carry out their ideas lucian pulver marker was one of those set of ventius the the the ones who don't like the pope who in 1998 was declared by other set of vacants to be pope pius viii essentially they all agreed that this guy knows what he's talking about and they don't like the real pope so this guy's pope

now when she then made all them bishops and then they made each other bishops and it's the equivalent of a bunch of bros like all shaking hands and giving high fives to each other and i really like it especially all these pictures of him just like standing in his backyard as the pope i love it it's cute easter lightning is an eastern asian belief that is pretty much the same as christianity except they believe that jesus currently exists on earth in the form of a chinese woman this comes from in the book of revelations when

it says as lightning goes across the eastern sky so will the return of our lord which is why the group is called eastern lightning it began in 1995 when a woman who has never been officially identified but it is pretty well understood goes by the name of yang zee bing i'm i'm sorry i'm butchering these who said that she experienced voices from god telling her she was meant from great things when a year later a man who was an at the time leader of the church named zhao waishan said that she was not only receiving

messages from jesus but that she was jesus and they just kind of operate besides that with knowing jesus is the woman in the congregation the group has got a lot of bad publicity and i can't really verify if it's the group intentions to do these things or if it's just radicals for example in 2002 there were kidnappings of people of other nearby religions that supposedly members of eastern lightning did furthermore before the 2012 december 21st end of the world event there were several riots that started up in china that was once again blamed on the

church and in 2014 a man walked into a cafe and after people didn't want to hear his gospel message he killed a woman behind the counter and he later identified as a member of eastern lightning so are these a bunch of zealots who feel extra pumped to do crazy things because they think they're god's on earth with them or is it just a bad rap i don't know but i know that uh western christians in the area or more specifically underground church members say that the what eastern lightning is a terrorist organization so make of

that what you will we are now on to tier 9 the final tier which is very specific instances of crazy cult activities oh boy the first of which being zhu haman al atayabi i promise i'm trying with these who in 1979 sees the grand mosque in saudi arabia see he believed that the saudi government was weak his father and grandfather fought in wars for them and he didn't like the idea that saudi was now making deals with western society so him and 500 of his followers stormed the mosque and for two weeks held off any

entry into it the standoff was eventually ended after french gigan commandos came in in order to direct the saudis of how to attack to which atiabi and several of his men were captured and then beheaded for their crimes but it's still a pretty big deal historically because he got enough people together in order to take the grand mosque things i can't talk about like why was there a temple why why was there a pyramid why did he drive to this person's island right before why all right so i'm going to get like odyssey it's this

off but i'll talk about whenever i do it but i'm going to make videos on there that i can't talk about on youtube because i really want to talk about this but this gets a video zapped immediately i've seen it happen and we'll get there the manson family is a reference to the cult that was started by charles manson the group was on the surface your standard hippie level stuff they like taking parts in drugs and living on communes however it's whenever you got into the beliefs of the cult that you started to see the

cracks for example members of the commune thought that the leader charles manson was a reincarnation of jesus himself manson himself preached on a coming apocalyptic race war that was going to begin and how they needed to begin a race war in order to confirm that they'll be safe this was an event that manson referred to as helter skelter in reference to the beatles song this led to in 1969 the sharon tate murders as they're called in which he had several of his followers go out and kill nine people over the course of several weeks the

most famous of which being whenever they broke into sharon tate's house killed her along with three friends and staged it in order to look like african americans did it in such a way to start a race war to which they said that they would eventually win and come out on top and all the research i've done about manson over the years it seems to me that he's a jim jones type he was a type of person who liked to be in control he liked to have others do his bidding and he wasn't afraid to hurt

other people to get it done the lebaron family probably exist on the farthest possible extreme of mormonism that you could reach for one they were kicked out of the church for polygamy but the son of the leader alma lebaron said that he had dreams where he talked to the prophets and that he himself was meant to be the replacement for joseph smith eventually they started a compound of a few hundred members in chihuahua mexico they have had several odd altercations with the locals such as one in which one of the sons was kidnapped and held

for ransom the family didn't pay ransom in order to not encourage ransoming kidnappings so they let the sun go the sun then went on this whole political thing as to say that ransoming is bad to which the cartel then got two more members of the commune and then killed them because the sun was talking about about kidnappings there was also an odd altercation that took place regarding a well on their property in which they apparently shot at the neighbors for getting too close to their well and then on the sonora highway which you may remember

from a couple years ago in 2019 three women and six children from the compound were killed by the cartel although it is believed in that case that the cartel mistake them for a rival gang all right so this one's weird remember nation of islam that i talked about at the beginning and how essentially like white people bad and then the church of scientology which even though they don't have any race rules are primarily white well apparently there is an ally between the nation of islam and the church of scientology according to the nation of islam

because they've been asked i thought white people were awful why go with the primarily white religion they have said it's because they have recognized the greater world around us in other words the idea of space and the space opera and the aliens that created us and whatever and they have gone so much so with this that 700 members of the nation of islam have been inducted as part of the church of scientology this is all to return them to a mother wheel which is essentially a giant ufo which will come down and take them away

whenever it decides to come take them away also the belief of the nation of islam has always been why people will be left behind whenever that happens although in recent years they've changed their tune after citing or at least sort of siding with the church of scientology and said maybe a few left to [ __ ] is a very niche group of judaism that only has about 200 members most of their beliefs are very conservative compared to normal judaism such as very long prayers arranged marriages at teenage years and the females are to be covered

from head to tone from the ages of three on they're also anti-zionist which means they don't really believe in the sanctity of israel itself and exists sort of nomadically such as their compound beginned in canada and exists currently in mexico in canada however they were ran out of the country after several investigations of child abuse because that whole teenage marriage thing is an always teenager teenager sometimes teenager to not teenager as well as kidnapping children which maybe i know they then moved the compound to mexico in which the leader of the church shalomo hell bronze

drowned while conducting one of his rituals that he was under water for i don't know it was weird and the religion's pretty much broken up now as they've all been arrested by the combined might of the fbi and interpol so yeah that's that workers institute of marxism leninism mao zedong thought is basically just a communist thing i don't know what else to call it it had eight members including the leader the leader was a guy named eravidian balakrishnan who was kicked out of the lininess marxist group in london and after his group which had 14

people in it at the time was searched for trafficking drugs he decided to move the group underground with seven people that were still in it those seven people being all women who he took as his wives and then made do chores and essentially treated them like slaves so i guess real convenient for him oh look i'm the only guy in a commune of eight and i need uh seven kids he eventually got arrested for abuse and trafficking and other things so it's just really lame to think about just one guy he's like he has a

cult and there's seven people in it like imagine you imagine you start a religion and you can't even make a football team out of it so and hill kids kind of got me down a rabbit hole reading it um and i've got to say from all the research i've done this has got to be one of the most disturbing cult reads i have ever gone on and there is a ton of information and there's so much to get into that i just decided i'm going to do a separate video on it probably shortly after this

one goes up to not totally leave you hanging on what it is essentially a man by the name of rox herrault started a commune in ontario canada in which he slowly brought in people over the years but he slowly became more and more abusive to the point by the end of it there was murders there was crazy goings-on with what he was doing to some of the members which eventually led to one of the members escaping telling the police to which he was in arrested tried put in jail for life and then his cellmate killed

him because of how bad he was so yeah i'm gonna do a whole video about it because the specifics are really gruesome and there's too much to get into on a video that's already too long so stay tuned for that if you're interested the reason i hesitate to call him the most evil cult leader i've ever heard of is because of the next one on this list marcus wesson marcus wesson has got to be one of the most frustratingly evil people i've ever read about i want to emphasize with this one this one is probably

the most graphic well i'm not going to show any images or say anything to overt uh it is a rather intense theme so again viewer discretion advice okay put it bluntly after return from vietnam he began living with a woman which he had a son with however the woman had a daughter by another man to which whenever that daughter turned eight he began abusing the child and then he married that child who he then had ten children with and then out of all of the girl children he also began abusing them when they turned eight

yeah no jokes this one's just depressing he had all the girls homeschooled and he was the only one allowed to interact with the daughters the mother was not allowed to have contact with her own girls and he read them a bible that he wrote himself in which he said jesus was a vampire and that he himself was god he also told them about armageddon and told his daughters that they were meant to be his future wives the girls were also ordered that they were not allowed to talk to their brothers or their mother as aforementioned

the abuse kept up to a point until which extended family figured out what was going on and got the local police involved the police then showed up to marcus's house in which his standoff began he walked inside with his gun the police did not hear gunshots however after getting inside marcus had killed all nine people that were in the house a few of the kids got away but marcus managed to kill his wife and all of the children that were in the house at the time if it makes you feel even a little bit better

he's currently awaiting the death penalty even though it's been 11 years and while it's easy to look at these situations and blame other people around i want to emphasize that the mother at the time who was also killed by marcus was 16 and considering the amount of abuse that she went through i don't think it's necessarily fair to say that she was responsible or at least in any magnitude that you could shame her over i think predominantly and alone marcus is one of the most evil people i have ever read about and all the blame

squarely falls on him what i mean by there's such a frustratingly evilness to it is similar to jim jones it's like whenever they can't play god anymore they just ruin ever literally end everyone else's lives around them only with marcus it seems to be much more malicious and just depraved i'll try to perk everyone back up at the end but that's enough of that let's move on heaven's gate refers to the cult that was started in 1974 by the couple marshall applewhite and bonnie nessel the two believe themselves to be the witnesses of revelation or

in other words in the book of revelations in the christian bible when it says there will be two witnesses who foretell the coming of christ they managed to catch a staggering following with this ideology and got to the point that they sort of existed as vagabonds until they made their way out to california the entire time sort of living this nomadic lifestyle as they went across the country that is until 1996. in 1996 whenever the comet haley bop went by the two believed that behind it was a spaceship that was supposed to take them into

the afterlife and the only way to catch it was if they were dead they managed to convince 38 other members of the heavens gate cult to commit suicide with them they did this by eating a concoction of phenobarbidol and applesauce to which they all went and laid on their beds and waited for the end this actually took place over the course of three days in which one group would do the deed to which the next group would then clean up make preparations for them to do it and so on and so forth they all wore

matching track shoots with matching nike shoes one of the reasons for it being one of the group's mottos was just stuart and the nike logo you get it they also all wore armbands that said heaven's gate away team and each had and 75 cents in their pocket this is a reference to in the book huckleberry finn whenever a character says all it takes is five bucks and three quarters to get a ride to heaven on the nearest common what's really weird is even after the heavens gate cult several of the members who were not a

part of it later committed suicide themselves some attribute this to a sense of survivor's guilt while others see it as a lack of purpose but it's interesting the effect that this one couple had on so many people in such a personal way unknown bunkers is in reference to the fact that there are a ton of unknown bunkers that exist across the world especially the us not only have random bunkers been found in the bases of abandoned buildings that have satanic or latin tech scribbled on them but also think about this way there's a lot of

companies that sell bunker supplies or entirely made bunkers for groups to stay in but how many bunkers do you actually know about which means they've got to be around here somewhere and assuming all of them aren't just going to doomsday preppers then what are some of them for which could possibly lead into the final theory of the entire iceberg actual illuminati so a lot of people throw around the name illuminati a lot as a joke right but what are they really well it's believed the original foundations of the illuminati come from the original foundations of

the freemasons the freemasons trace their origin all the way back to the original temple built in israel under king solomon with the idea that they will always exist as a sort of unseen hand behind the scenes of world powers well the illuminati was officially made in 1776 however due to several sort of traditional christian beliefs at the time they were made illegal almost everywhere especially in france which is where they originated their belief was very anti-god with the idea that we ourselves should be the own deciders of our fate and shouldn't look to a higher

power something we don't truly understand and instead people need people to rule over them so even if they don't know we're doing it we'll do that for them the plan among members was that after they were outlawed they would slip into hiding in a sort of secret society and simply continue to act from behind the scenes with several believing that they are directly responsible for the french revolution here's what's so interesting about them we have no way of knowing the capacity to which they exist if it's true and they are interconnected with the freemasons that

means everyone who's a high ranking freemason could possibly be implicit with it or if they died out and they didn't successfully join together then there's nothing to worry about however the problem is if they don't exist or they exist at full capacity there's no way for any of us to be able to tell the difference the disappearance of them from the earth could mean they're really really bad or really really good at what they're doing the real illuminati and the reason that it's proliferated so much in conspiracy theories is because it's the very literal equivalent

of watching a shark fin dive under the water did it go away or is it still swimming where it's always been and that is it for the religion and cult iceberg i want to emphasize especially with some of the bottom stuff and how some of these were very kind of anti-human or anti-righteous in their presentation this is a video to specifically discuss the worst of the worst as it's publicly known if you want to see what humanity has done with beliefs and ideas and inspiration just look around you there are an infinite number of positive

outcomes that have come from ideas of love and charity and giving that completely outweigh everything i just talked about it's exactly like i talked about in the disturbing iceberg fig yeah it's fun to look in the rabbit hole and see how deep it goes but you gotta remember to take your head out because in the grand scheme of things the rabbit hole ain't that big and as i've said before yeah the world can be a pretty bad place sometimes but it can be a pretty cool place too and part of that coolness is you all

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