To locals in the Russian village of Nikolskoye they were simply a group of eccentric Christian believers. And when 29 members of the sect abruptly vanished last month, villagers assumed they had packed up and gone.
In fact, the religious doomsday cult had taken up residence in a remote underground cave. They had decided to barricade themselves inside until May 2008 – the date when their spiritual leader told them the world was going to end.
“They have covered the entrance and refuse to come out and are threatening to blow themselves up. They threaten to detonate a gas tank,” an official in the local prosecutor’s office said. “They say they are fine. They tell us to go away,” another added.
“They are simple Christians,” a local priest, Father Georgy, told NTV television. “They say: ‘The church is doing a bad job, the end of the world is coming soon and we are all saving ourselves.'”
Works as well as any other religion. So – go away!
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Yeah – this is news, why? Religious kooks doing whacky stuff… well, if they ain’t hurtin’ anybody else, leave ’em alone!
In fact, pour a few tons of concrete over the entrance to keep them secure in the tomb until 2008. If the world doesn’t end in May 2008, break the concrete off in June 2008 and let them out. If the world does come to an end, then we’ve done them a great service by preserving them in their chosen place of rest.
Religion… 2 cups ignorance, 1 to 4 cups of fanaticism, 1 charismatic leader, your money,… stir… and swallow.
>>Religion… 2 cups ignorance, 1 to 4 cups of fanaticism, 1
>>charismatic leader, your money,… stir… and swallow.
I guess it’s been a while since you went to Sunday school, huh?
Let them kill themselves, and we’ll have yet another example of Darwinism at work. Plus we’ll have fewer religious nutjobs on the planet.
And liberal kooks will probably do the same on January 20 2009 if the Republicans win the presidential election again.
And I suspect some kooks on both sides might do the same if Hilary is elected, whether on the Democrat ticket or the Democrats for Lieberman ticket.
I will sleep soundly tonight knowing that these people will preserve the Human race after we are all gone… I will wait in Maui at the beach for the inevitable end!
Yahoo! we are all gonna die!
Oh, wait that was Viet Nam!
Yup. A lotta folks died.
And on ONE of the dates, that is said to be the Birth of Christ…WOW..
>>And liberal kooks will probably do the same on January 20 2009
>>if the Republicans win the presidential election again.
Heheheheh! Luckily for the liberal kooks, the nation, and the world, there’s more of a chance that the Rapture will occur and you, Mr. IBC, will be whisked straight to heaven, than that the Republicans will win the election.
8 years of slime is quite enough, thank you very much.
(Shrug) Are they pushing their beliefs on anyone? Are the stabbing cartoonists? Stabbing reporters? Lynching girls for being raped? Blowing up crowds of children getting candy? Trying to set fire to Airport waiting rooms? Blowing up trains full of commuters?
It brings another meaning to drinking kool aid.Good riddance!
Is 29 actually a “mass” suicide?
Someone should explain to them that they are too early.
Nibiru is (supposedly) coming in 2012. They have five more years of Christian approved fun to do first.
What’s wrong with mass suicide? I encourage it. In fact, I encourage all suicide. Leaves more resources for me to consume since they’re not using them.
Nothing in the article mentioned or implied mass suicide. Not that I give a rip.
This sort of crazyness can be tracked right on back, for over a thousand years, and several different cultures. Big deal.
(So, why am I posting? Bored.)
Pay-per-view!!
(shrug) Wasn’t this in poltergeist 2?
I say leave’m be.
“They are simple Christians,” a local priest, Father Georgy, told NTV television.
Yes, that they are indeed simple is beyond dispute.
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Leave ’em be? That’s not very brotherly or caring.
Leaving your fellow humans in ignorance, stupidity, superstition and error is a disservice to them and to the entire species. Wrong thinking, uncorrected, has a way of coming back around behind you and biting you on the ass.
All the ills of humanity can be traced back, ultimately, to people believing in untrue, erroneous things – and sometimes even believing in the right things, but for the wrong reasons.
I’d be willing to go out on a limb and state flatly that all evil (which doesn’t exist extrinsic to human society, note) is the result of faulty thinking – and anyone who claims to care about humanity’s future is obligated to promote rational thinking and/or stamp out irrationality. Failure to do so is letting your brethren fuck things up for themselves, and the consequences of that fucking-up eventually impacts all of us, and not for the better.
Pffffft.
I’d normally agree to just leave them alone. But the article doesn’t mention if there are children in there with them. It is one thing for a rational adult to decide to do this. But for parents to force their children to do this is, well, child-endangerment.
So we end up with another Branch Dividian Waco incident.
Sad.
#11, you forgot to ask “Are they blowing up abortion clinics, or are they sending death threats to certain judges who rule that creationism can’t be taught in science class?” Religious idiocy is not limited to Islam.