The End of the World on Sept 12...

by heathervescent

I honestly don't make this up!

Dozens of members of the House of Yahweh -- dressed in gas masks, gloves and long overcoats -- have built a network of underground hideouts in the small highland village of Mauche. They have stocked the bunkers with dried fermented flour meant to feed them for a year, by which time sinners would have been wiped off the Earth, according to their beliefs.

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"Though there is freedom of worship in the country, our fears are that the members could die not from the so-called nuclear war but by the bunkers caving in," Dominic Karanja, a senior police officer in the area, told reporters. But the cult's followers said it was Yahweh's (Hebrew for God) way of providing water for them.

And they went underground a few days ago. Read the whole story.

| 09/14/06 | Beliefs