1 Aleister Crowley – an influential occultist and ceremonial magician.
2 Manly P. Hall – known for writings on esoteric philosophy.
3 Anton LaVey – established modern Satanism.
4 Grigori Rasputin – a controversial spiritual figure in Russian history.
5 Osho – a spiritual teacher known for controversial teachings and communes.
6 Jesus Christ – the foundational figure of Christianity.
Which one has people knocking on my door again?
2 Manly P. Hall – known for writings on esoteric philosophy.
That picture is actually of Gerald Gardner, the guy who founded (kind of? Its complicated) the religion of Wicca.
That’s literally Gerald’s Wikipedia picture, while Manley Hall kina looks like he’d be a groyper twink if he were alive today
To answer the question though, white Jesus easily has the most toxic fan club, by sheer volume of followers.
Anton LaVey was an edgy fuck though, so he probably gets 2nd place for just being kinda cringe ¯_(ツ)_/¯
For fuck sake, blond Jesus? This is (one of many) proof(s) that they are worshiping imaginary god and his son. They imagine the son with blond hair, I am guessing speaking English and talking about America.
Blond Jesus has a way more toxic following than Historically Accurate Jesus.
(explanation: satanists are generally chill, and he looks like Kane 🤣)
Lol Anton LeVay was such an edgy loser
3 Belief in or acknowledgment of a satan just reinforces and legitimizes christianity.
LaVeyan satanists aren’t deistic, they don’t actually believe in Satan.
7 Apophis - once an extremely powerful Goa’uld System Lord. Arch enemy of the Tau’ri, he impersonated the ancient Egyptian deity of chaos, darkness and fire.
Apophis is a false god. Say it with me, it’s what you really believe.
You will pay for your insolence. With your life.
Jaffa, kree!
…why aren’t you kreeing?!
We’re past such formalities.
if we’re talking about lemmy, it’s Stalin
I don’t know but I find number three wildly amusing. Some parts of my former edgy 16 year old libertarian atheist refuse to die.
Jesus, by far. The people who have been murdered in his name is probably close to or over a good billion, right?
He’s not really a “foundational figure of Christianity” though, his image was just co-opted by the Roman empire which then created the religion also co-opting the actual “Jewish revival” Jesus was at the core of (bringing the fundamentals of monotheism back into mind and expanding the teachings to everyone, not just a small select community).
Not disputing you but I’d be interested in how you arrived at this count.
Completely eyeballed it but I included every Western imperialist project that was done with Bible in hand and chanting variations of “Deus Vult”, so that’s large chunks of Asia, most of Africa, all of Latin America, and every Western incursion on West Asia from the Crusades to Iran today. And let’s not forget the pagan persecution in the West itself by the Romans. That’s a shit ton of people through the ages, right?
WAG
I feel the inclusion of Jesus does this list a disservice, could have been like a Buddha, Mohamed, Jesus… List and I think that would have been better because of the league Jesus is playing in. Basically skews the list.
But the first 5 in the list is an awesome list to choose from. I would say Rasputin due to the shit show Russia was going to be put through that I feel he was the straw that broke the camel’s back and led to cascading events I feel still persists
How large a fan base do most of these have? Should have used Count of St. Germain rather then Jesus, though.
Taken per capita, probably LaVey. Taken as “Total harm done” it’s Jesus, no contest
I’d argue that by mere statistic, Jesus wins this one.
Yea, it’s Jesus
I would honestly agree. The fanfiction is getting out of hand.
Jesus while he lived or modern? cause that’s two completely different groups of people.
