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.

64 Comments
emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 56 pts · 157d
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.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 157d
Apophis is a false god. Say it with me, it’s what you really believe.
emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 16 pts · 157d
You will pay for your insolence. With your life.
Zanshi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 156d
Jaffa, kree!
...why aren't you kreeing?!
emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 3 pts · 156d
We're past such formalities.
TransNeko@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
what about the Ori? or Sokar? or Setesh? or even Bal?
emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 2 pts · 156d
I shall deal with the Ori after I have conquered the System Lords.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 41 pts · 157d
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)_/¯
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 156d
The second guy looks like he smoked a lot of weed.
Godort@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 157d
Taken per capita, probably LaVey. Taken as "Total harm done" it's Jesus, no contest
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 157d
Yea, it’s Jesus
humminglady@feddit.online · 20 pts · 157d
I would honestly agree. The fanfiction is getting out of hand.
daannii@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 157d
Jesus while he lived or modern? cause that's two completely different groups of people.
WR5@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
Well sure, otherwise the first group would be really old right now.
daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
I mean most of these people's followers aren't around anymore.
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 157d
if we're talking about lemmy, it's Stalin
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 157d
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).
realitista@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 157d
Not disputing you but I'd be interested in how you arrived at this count.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 157d
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?
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 157d
WAG
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 156d
Jesus never asked for wars in his name though. It’s not part of his teachings.
Christianity changed a lot once it became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.
However Christianity also brought a lot of positive social changes with the focus on forgiveness and helping the unfortunate for example.
It was spread by conquest, but also peaceful friendly missionaries. These missionaries often invented a writing system for the illiterate people they visited.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 156d
Oh yeah the man was a prophet of peace, I'm not putting it on him. 👍
IntriguedIceberg@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 157d
I'd argue that by mere statistic, Jesus wins this one.
mrmisses@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 157d
Jesus has trump so, jesus
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 156d
5 has the best quote. I don't agree with the sentiment (most days), but it is absolutely hilarious: " [...] democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people... but the people are... retarded."
UnimportantHuman@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 155d
Just say removed
UnimportantHuman@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 155d
Nvm didn't know lol
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 156d
Trick question, the answer is always Beyonce
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 156d
Not Taylor Swift?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
You take that back or so help me I will end you
Devconsole@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 157d
Linux
mlg@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 157d
Hey at least its not Windows lol
ignotum@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 157d
Agreed
I use arch btw
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 157d
(explanation: satanists are generally chill, and he looks like Kane 🤣)
lps2@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 156d
CoS/LaVey are more like the petulant libertarian flavor of satanism.
Satanic Temple are the chill ones
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
That is excellent information, thank you!
humminglady@feddit.online · 13 pts · 157d
This is a terrifying post to comment on
otacon239@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 157d
[controversial reply with a healthy mix of upvotes and downvotes that’s ambiguous enough that you’re not sure if they’re serious, confused, or bad at sarcasm]
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 12 pts · 157d
Of the top: Catholicism, evangelicalism, Mormonism, Jehovah’s witnesses,…
I mean this list goes on and on. They all have one guy in common.
notaviking@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 157d
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
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 157d
How large a fan base do most of these have? Should have used Count of St. Germain rather then Jesus, though.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 157d
Lol Anton LeVay was such an edgy loser
ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 156d
A carney mentalist who became a sex pope?
What did he lose?
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 157d
Which one has people knocking on my door again?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 156d
That's probably those damned Rasputin's Witnesses.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 157d
Anton LaVey's crowd are chill as hell. Just a little cringe but whomst amogus has not had notions of doing catholic mass naked except for a mask and a cape?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 156d
That's like defending Christianity based on the charity and love. Yeah they've got some awesome bits, the problem is that they has to mix Ayn Rand bs into their ritual orgies
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 156d
Except when christians pull us all into their baggage it's purging the various impure people or an oil war to try and kick off their stupid little apocalypse.
When LaVeyans are being their most toxic it looks this:
Like, yeah he's doing a stupid little hierarchy but where on that hierarchy does Pajama Satan sit?
itisileclerk@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 157d
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.
Sergio@piefed.social · 12 pts · 156d
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 157d
Blond Jesus has a way more toxic following than Historically Accurate Jesus.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 156d
There are blond people in the Levant.
wer2@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 156d
Marie Curie's fans are practically radioactive.
daggermoon@piefed.world · 5 pts · 157d
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.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 157d
You
Aeao@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 156d
Colin Mockery in square one.
AstroLightz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 157d
Underdale and Deltatune for sure
Techromantik@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 157d
3 Belief in or acknowledgment of a satan just reinforces and legitimizes christianity.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 157d
LaVeyan satanists aren't deistic, they don't actually believe in Satan.
Techromantik@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 156d
They don’t need to.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 156d
I recommend studying Crowley and Osho.
halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 156d
#6 m'lord
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 157d
... we all know the answer 😶
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d
No people of color? WTF racist