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.
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.
Lol Anton LeVay was such an edgy loser
3 Belief in or acknowledgment of a satan just reinforces and legitimizes christianity.
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.
if we’re talking about lemmy, it’s Stalin
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.
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.
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.
Underdale and Deltatune for sure
Of the top: Catholicism, evangelicalism, Mormonism, Jehovah’s witnesses,…
I mean this list goes on and on. They all have one guy in common.
I’d argue that by mere statistic, Jesus wins this one.
Taken per capita, probably LaVey. Taken as “Total harm done” it’s Jesus, no contest
Jesus has trump so, jesus
Jesus while he lived or modern? cause that’s two completely different groups of people.
