• Bad examples are good for you. If crank religion is your ambrosia, if you love to dip your toes in those heady fanatical waters, here are some places to look. Just a few, because a little goes a long, long way.

  • Jack Chick - The source of those strange, disturbing tracts.
  • "God Hates Fags" needs no introduction.
  • The Agressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps, aka Free Love Ministries, feisty for the Lord.
  • Heaven's Gate - Not the movie, the cult. Still online after all the suicides.
  • Outer Secrets - Hmmmm.
  • Anglo-Israelism - Those Ten Lost Tribes, ever wonder where they got to?
  • Geocentricity - Earth really is the center. The Center! Devil take all those astronomers anyway.
  • Flat Earth Society - Moreover, it's flat.

Desire more? Visit http://www.crank.net/religion.html for a huge list. Or visit the Gallery of the Gods, Donna Kossy's freeze-dried archive of religious kooks.

"Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire.
They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms
not because they love these things,
as a child loves jam,
but because they think they ought to have them.
That is one element which makes the crank."
Rose Macaulay