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Rogue Messiahs: Tales of SelfProclaimed Saviors,Used
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Throughout history, Western culture has been bedeviled by false prophets, charlatans, and selfappointed messianic figures. Their appetites for destruction and depravity have led to broken lives and worsemass suicide and even mass murder. Why does this occur again and again?In Rogue Messiahs, Colin Wilson compellingly recounts the stories and outrageous claims, acts, and abuses of 25 selfproclaimed messiahs who have arisen in the last 300 years. He uncovers the probable factors that turn earnest religious leaders, mystics, or wellintentioned cult leaders into violent, abusive, murderous, and paranoid rogue messiahs.This gallery of spiritual fakers includes many familiar names and faces: David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians; Shoko Asahara, founder of the Aum Supreme Truth cult; Rev. Jim Jones; founder of the infamous Jonestown; Jeffrey Don Lundgren, Mormon con man and murderer; Ervil LeBaron and family, deranged cultist, prophets, and murderers; Rock Theriault, late twentiethcentury French Canadian selfproclaimed messiah. Further, Wilson includes a study of others who achieved spiritual insight instead of destruction, and demonstrates that mayhem and benevolence are often two sides of the same coin.These wouldbe messiahs, in Wilson's analysis, are all driven by a childish dream of absolute power. Almost always, they cross the line from inspiration to paranoia, and from the teaching to killinggenuine aspiration mixed with selfdeception, says Wilson. This is an incisive review of the motives and madness of cult leaders, spiritual con men, and wouldbe saviors.
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