| About this site |
| About us |
| Our beliefs |
| Is this your first visit? |
| Contact us |
| External links |
| Good books |
| Visitor essays |
| Our forum |
| New essays |
| Other site features |
| Buy a CD of this site |
| Vital notes |
| Non-theistic... |
| Atheism |
| Agnosticism |
| Humanism |
| Other |
| Spirituality and ethics |
| Spirituality |
| Morality and ethics |
| Absolute truth |
| Peace and conflict |
| Attaining peace |
| Religious tolerance |
| Religious hatred |
| Religious conflict |
| Religious violence |
| Laws and news |
| Religious laws |
| Religious news |
Sponsored link
Religious watches by
Whimsical Watches
Destructive cults
Menu
Branch Davidians, a.k.a.
Students of the Seven Seals
Sponsored link.
This essay is an attempt to obtain a balanced review of the Waco tragedy. With all of the disinformation and misinformation floating around, this is an impossible task.
Overview
The Branch Davidians is a sect that split away from the Seventh-Day Adventist church. Under their now deceased leader, David Koresh, it became a destructive, doomsday cult. Many of their members died during a standoff with federal authorities in Waco, TX. Fragments of the original group survive.
With the release of Livingstone Fagan in 2007-MAY, all of the members of the sect who were given jail sentences as a result of the standoff are now free from jail.
Perhaps the ultimate message of the Waco tragedy is that seeking religious certainty and security while eliminating religious doubt and skepticism from one's life can have dangerous consequences.
Topics covered in this section:
 | The Branch Davidians
| ||||||||||||||
| The Waco standoff
| ||||||||||||||
| The Danforth report | ||||||||||||||
| Recent developments:
|
Copyright © 1995 to 2008 by Ontario
Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Originally published: 1995-SEP-28
Last update: 2008-APR-21
Author: B.A. Robinson
|
|
