Sentences with phrase «followers of a cult leader»

Inspired by the girls who followed Charles Manson and committed vile crimes for him, this book follows a depressed and lonely girl as she falls under the spell of one of the followers of a cult leader in the 1960's.

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The religious leaders of this cult are in control — they make the rules and dictate what their followers must do and not do.

When a group of radicals took the city of Münster in 1534, they formed a polygamous death - cult centered around charismatic leaders who duped their followers into a disastrous siege, in the hope of initiating the End Times.

You could postulate a million plus similar scenarios: «if God commanded the Holocaust,» «If God commanded a cult leader to murder his followers,» «If God commanded a serial killer to go on a rampage,» etc. but the issue with each of these scenarios, is that they present a false god who is not the Christian God.

It was only after he found fame as an adult that his followers, like those of any religious or cult leader, felt the need to embellish his birth to supernatural status and fit it into to the expectations of the people they were trying to convince or influence.

You OBAMA cult followers who swallow everything that comes out of every one of your Dear Leaders orifice without question should learn something

Deeply embedded within the Pentecostal movement's ethos is a cult of personality; charismatic leaders are put on pedestals above accountability and are often virtually worshiped by many of their followers.

Was Steve Jobs a cult leader because of all of his high tech followers.

And yet this extraordinary marketing feat is what we now witness in the swagger of certain leaders and their followers, in their lack of accountability, in the cults of celebrity, in the massive influence wielded by media savvy organizations, in the plethora of lucrative personal ministries, and in the various other expensive products and pyrotechnics of the movement.

These 25 cult leaders of the condiment world are proof that condiments make everything better, and have inspired fanatical followers because of it.

WATCHING Jeremy Corbyn launch his leadership campaign on Thursday, I was reminded of Jim Jones, the US cult leader who ordered his followers to commit suicide in 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana.

The idea behind love bombing isn't new, and in fact, the term isn't either: It was reportedly used in the 1970s by Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the cult - like Unification Church of the United States, to describe the over-the-top happiness and love his followers displayed toward others.

Vulcan cult leader Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) and his followers have invaded a «planet of peace,» where delegates from hostile races coexist in a sort of intergalactic United Nations.

Insights into the mind of a cult leader and it's followers.

Through several missions and optional activities, Wei will track down the Cult of the Snake's leader and personally show him that the world is not about to end for anyone but him and his followers.

Batmaglij directed and Marling stars as Maggie, the enigmatic leader of a cult who claims to have come from the future to save her followers in a film that lets the audience decide... Read More»

Cult leaders get a perverse thrill out of keeping their followers down.

The book takes readers into the heart of the charismatic and sinister Jack Wyck and his cult - like coterie of young followers, presenting an unsparing look at the unsettling power of its manipulative leader.

So please spread the word to your friends (both in the flesh - and - blood world and the social media world of Facebook & co.), to your followers (whether you are a cult leader or a tweeter) and to your coworkers (after all, how many reality shows do you know that you can follow at work?).

Far Cry 5 review - the latest in this long line of video games from Ubisoft features cult leader Joseph Seed and his group of followers and family members in the fictional setting of Hope County, Montana.

But from what we have seen so far it looks to be an interesting game to play, with a story that will have you immersed deep into Hope County's path to «The Edge» led by the Cult Leader Joseph Seed and his militia made up of followers from The Project at Eden's Gate.

They have made it possible for the thousands of Americans, interested in the art movements of the old world, but who have not had the opportunity of late years to visit Europe, to see, study and compare the work of the founders, leaders and the followers of the various cults and movements which have so stirred France, England, Germany, Italy, and even Spain and Russia and the Scandinavian countries, during the past decade, and which have brought about, if not an art Renaissance in Europe — a stirring of the dry bones of conservatism and conventionalism in art abroad, and have had their direct influence here.