Paul Mackenzie convicted over deaths of children and one adult after followers were ordered to starve themselves and their families
The leader of a Kenyan doomsday sect has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murders of 190 children and one adult in one of the world’s worst cult disasters in recent history.
The sentence, comprising 100 years for murder by starvation and 100 years by direct homicide, came two weeks after the court in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa found the cult leader guilty of the crimes.
Prosecutors said Paul Mackenzie and his Good News International church ran a Christian doomsday sect whose members were ordered to starve themselves and their children to death to go to heaven before the world ended.
Doomsday cult leaders are one of the dumbest grifters. As a parasite, why kill off your host?
Why are the cult leaders always like “let’s kill ourselves and our children and go to heaven” and never “let’s live a good life care about others and then go to heaven”
The ones who kill themselves are either about to get shut down (Jonestown) or actual true believers themselves (Heavens Gate). The smart grifters don’t add everyone’s death to their cult lore (or put doomsday at some nebulous point in the future), and just continue to amass wealth (scientology).
And why do people not ask wtf bro?
Because religion / faith is an easy tool to use to manipulate people to your bidding.
Those don’t make the news
Because that’s just faith.
And he stayed behind, because of course he did. He should’ve gone to meet jesus for himself and left everyone else alone to follow their own journeys, but that’s a foreign concept to many christian.
Can we do this to other cult leaders, especially those with even more blood on their hands? Asking for a friend
I thought perhaps his punishment was also death by starvation…but I misread =\
