Top 10 Cults
VOICE OVER: Rebecca Brayton
For this list, we've defined a cult as a movement or group that follows a set of beliefs that others find strange or fail to understand, and that praises their leader as a God-like figure. Some, but not all, have negative connotations. Crazy beliefs and practices, crimes, mass suicides and even murder are all things that have been associated with cults due to a few bad groups. In memory of the mass suicide by members of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple on November 18th, 1978, http://www.WatchMojo.com counts down ten of the world's most well known cults.
- #10: €“ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's Communities (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
- #9: €“ Order of the Solar Temple (Luc Jouret)
- #8: €“ The Raëlian Movement (Claude Vorilhon)
- #7: €“ Heaven's Gate (Marshall Applewhite)
- #6: €“ Aum Shinrikyo (Shoko Asahara)
- #5: €“ Unification Church (Sun Myung Moon)
- #4: €“ Hare Krishna (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)
- #3: €“ Branch Davidians (David Koresh)
- #2: €“ The Manson Family (Charles Manson)
- #1: €“ Peoples Temple (Jim Jones)
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