Cult followers starve to death in Kenya

Yes, I have been following the story for the last 2 weeks or so. Not surprised as there are so many mentally sick people out there that nothing surprises me anymore. I just read the title and keep moving on. Crazy people do not amuse me! Anyway, if they want to kill themselves, let them kill themselves. There are way too many people on this planet!
 
A Christian doomsday cult in Kenya targeted children to die first in its final days, starving them to death before the adults followed through with the same plan.

Police are investigating what appeared to be a mass suicide in the southeast region of Kenya, where so far 201 bodies have been found in a forested area, according to a BBC report Sunday.

Investigators believe the bodies are connected to the alleged Christian doomsday cult of Pastor Paul Mackenzie, whose deputy preacher, Titus Katana, recently told the New York Times that children were killed first and ordered "to fast in the sun so they would die faster."


Katana has been helping authorities investigate the cult and has provided shocking details about its operation, including an interview with the Sunday Times in which he described abuses of children such as forcing them to be locked inside huts for days without food or water.

"Then they wrapped them in blankets and buried them, even the ones still breathing," he told the outlet.

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Followers of the cult were allegedly told they would get to heaven faster if they starved to death, the BBC reported, while autopsies of the bodies found showed signs of starvation, suffocation and beatings.
 
Balzac said:
I think there's a lot of evidence that it's not always just crazy asses who get involved in these cults, but surprisingly well educated people too...
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When I said crazies I was thinking more of the leaders. And I believe well educated people are just as likely to be crazy as anyone else...
shedevil7953 said:
couldn't read it; wouldn't allow without subscribing.
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Probably for the best, suicide cults aren't something you ought to be subscribing to. ;)
SeniorBen said:
They have the same mentality as the anti-vax people.
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I don't think so.

As you know I am not anti-vax, I am well vaccinated. However I know a lot of intelligent reasonable folks who are not vaccinated, including some here. I don't agree with them, and don't understand, but I don't think they are crazy or stupid. Suicide cult members are likely both...
 
Anti-vax people are part of a suicide cult ā€” not quite as successful as the one in Kenya, but many of them have died as a result of their cult's beliefs.
 
Devi said:
Maybe you would find the class action lawsuit in Australia re the "vaccine" illuminating.
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The TGAā€™s latest health safety report, published on 20 April, reveals that adverse risks are extremely low.

There were 138,307 total adverse event reports from nearly 66 million vaccine doses administered - a rate of just 0.2 per cent.

'The protective benefits of vaccination far outweigh the potential risks,' the report states.
https://www.tga.gov.au/news/covid-19-vaccine-safety-reports/covid-19-vaccine-safety-report-20-04-23

.2% is 2 out of every 1,000. A few people have had problems with the vaccine as is the case with any vaccine or any kind of medical treatment. That's not disputed. And if they were lied to, they should be compensated. But most of the lies have come from the anti-vax crowd ā€” not from the government.
 
I don't think the anti-vaxxers are a suicide cult. They are not trying to die, they are trying to prove modern science (and political beliefs other than those of their leaders) to be wrong.

This starvation in order to meet Jesus sooner is more like Jim Jones and his cyanide-laced Koolaid.
 
I think that one commonality for cult members is that something is missing in their background normally supplied by family or traditional spirituality. The cult becomes a kind of surrogate family, a place where by their background they feel that they belong and are somehow rewarded. Adherents become ā€œtrue believers,ā€ surrendering their personal judgement, individuality, and intellect to the cult leader who tells them what to believe and do, and they assimilate the groupā€™s beliefs and behaviors unquestioningly. Such groups exist in the political as well as spiritual world.

I knew a really bright guy in college with a promising future ahead of him who became a ā€œMoonie,ā€ an adherent of the Korean Rev. Moon who followers refer to as ā€œfather.ā€ He wrote me a letter post-graduation talking of his ā€œperfect brothers and sisters,ā€ and I knew then that he had been assimilated by the cult. Sad and tragicā€¦
 
What were the parents of those kids thinking??? šŸ˜£šŸ˜¢ I mean, as an adult if you want to do something so ridiculous and insane, ok. But as a parent, I just simply canā€™t comprehend allowing or forcing your child to do something like that. It simply boggles my mind!
So incredibly sad for those poor babies. šŸ˜ž
 
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