Doomsday Cults

There's news recently about a particularly nasty one in Kenya:

19 new bodies recovered in Kenya doomsday cult, pushing death toll past 300 (CBS News)

Quote:

Police believe that most of the bodies exhumed were those of Good News International Church followers, an evangelical sect founded in 2003 by the self-proclaimed "pastor" Mackenzie, who advocated fasting until death in order to "meet Jesus". The 50-year-old founder of the Good News International Church turned himself in on April 14, after police acting on a tip-off first entered Shakahola forest. While starvation appears to be the main cause of death, some of the victims -- including children -- were strangled, beaten or suffocated, according to chief government pathologist Johansen Oduor.

Interesting that this "pastor" did not apparently practice what he preached.

via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/K5YTQOn