Amish: Peaceful Christian fundamentalist group famous for its rejection of technology and strict adherence to OT and NT laws
Aum Shinrikyo: Dangerous and violent religious community responsible for the 1995 Sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subway and other crimes. Eventually they apologized, stopped using the bible, and formed the more prosaic group called Aleph
Branch Davidians: Apocalyptic suicide cult famed for its dramatic armed fight against authorities in the town of Waco, USA, in 1993
Christaidelphians: Bible based Christainity
Christain Apostolic Church in Zion: Fundamentalist Anti-Science flat-earth Christian cult, who also predicted the End of the World would occur 4 different times
Concerned Christians: Fundamentalist Christians active in USA, Isreal and Greece who expected the end of the world in year 2000, starting with a nuclear attack on the USA, which they appeared to be trying to instigate themselves
Hooker for Jesus/Family of God: Sexually promiscuous group who fell foul of police suspicion. As is often the casse, increasing pressure from outside resulted in the group retreating even further into insanity, and they became The Family, predicting the end of the world
Jehovah Witnesses: A 140-years-old Christians fundamentals/literalist organisation famous for preaching that the world is about to end (nowadays - because of the existence of the United Nations.
Mennonite: A protestant Christian denomination
Order of the Solar Temple: Apocalyptic suicide cult, with mass suicides in Switzerland, France and Quebec, in preparation for Jesus' second coming
People Temple: Apocalyptic suicide cult that imploded, resulting in the deaths of over 600 adults and 276 children
Rastafarian: God (called Jah) fathered a black Jesus; marijuana use in rituals
Salvation Army: Christian organization of evangelists organised along military lines, famous for charity work
Traditional African Church: A range of churches ranging from mostly Christian, to those mostly encapsulating native African spirituality
Unitarian-Universalism: A liberal and diverse pluralist religion accepting of believers without needing them to leave their current religions
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