This is against the commandments of God!' The negative aspect of the announcement... this was in my personal experience one of the problems".
After all, the cult, called the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, professed the belief that the world would end on Dec. 31, 1999.
The followers of the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God called the church they entered before burning to death their "Ark".
The Adventist Peace Fellowship (APF) emerged out of informal discussions begun in October 2001 about the meaning of the Adventist commitment to "the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus Christ" for peacemaking in a world rent by violence.
The smell remains a mystery, like nearly everything about the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, which promised the end of the world but delivered only for its 780 victims.
Police officers said they thought that all five of the leaders of the sect, the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, died in the fire.
Expecting the end of the world, followers of the obscure Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God locked themselves in the church in the small town of Kanungu at breakfast time on Friday, the police said.
In the early 2000s, the corpses of nearly 800 followers of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God were exhumed from the doomsday cult's headquarters in Uganda, the result of yet another mass slaughter by self-immolation.
Since Feb. 17, at least 654 bodies have been recovered in the wreckage of a cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, that splintered off from the Roman Catholic Church.
The blind recourse to texts embraced as literal truth, the injunction to follow the commandments of God before anything else, the subjugation of reason and judgment and even conscience to the dictates of dogma: these can be exhilarating and transformative.
