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Communities organized around strong millennialist beliefs often fall into the category of “New Religious Movements.” Difficult to define, NRMs are eclectic and syncretic ethical or spiritual groups of modern origin, often organized around a charismatic leader who claims extraordinary powers. “Counter-cultural” NRMs might be termed cults, alternative religions or self religions, and can provoke anxiety from the mainstream who feels that they practice forms of coercion and mind-control on their members. Especially when convinced that they are living in the endtimes, members of NRMs might advocate extreme social and political practices. However, although many NRMs do not long outlive their founders, other millennialist movements developed from fringe groups into mainstream religions.
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The Survival Right knows that the end is coming courtesy of satanic forces that have conspired throughout history to undermine America. Often this conspiracy is viewed in religious terms as a crusade by Satan and his seed to wreak havoc upon God's true chosen peopld, the Celts, lombards, Aryans and other members of Yahweh's true chosen white race.
James Coates, Armed and Dangerous NY: Hill and Wang, 1995, p. 227.
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