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'''David''': No. It says right on the brochure - "[[Suspiciously Specific Denial|This is not a brainwashing camp]]."|''[[Roseanne]]'', "Springtime For David"}}

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* Dogbert in ''[[Dilbert]]'' started his own cult on one occasion:

'''Dogbert:''' That word has a bad connotation. I prefer to think of it as a bunch of morons who have nothing better to do with their lives. }}

 

** In the skirmish game ''[[Necromunda]]'', using a 40K variant and set on the eponymous planet, a player's force could belong to the Redemptionist Crusade, a sect that relates to the normal Emperor-Worshipping Imperial Citizens (you know, dogmatic, intolerant, heretic-burning, etc.) about in the same way that David Koresh-style sects relate to standard Evangelical Christianity. They are TOO fanatic even for Imperial Society, and hence are outlaws to be killed on sight.

** In [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s [[Ciaphas Cain]] novels, a footnote mentions that a cult worships Cain as the physical embodiment of the Emperor's will -- something that would have horrified him if he ever found out.

{{spoiler|Alem Mahat}}, ''The Book of Cain'', Chapter IV, Verse XXI }}

** The [[Machine Worship|Adeptus Mechanicus]] worships a living machine for a god. But it's okay, ''really'', because it's an aspect of the Emperor. They're probably not fooling anybody, but nobody wants to piss them off too much since they're pretty much the only ones who know how to use most of the machines. The fact that they might actually be worshiping the [[Eldritch Abomination|Void Dragon]] and this being Warhammer, probably doesn't bode well.

* [http://www.featherlessbiped.com/filk/evilfilk.htm Here] one more sinister assembly is revealed in the best tradition of Cult Investigation (and they [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|use the dandelion as their symbol]]!).

* [[Homestar Runner|Marzipan]] runs a kindergarten program she calls "LURN": "Life-blossoms Undergoing Re-programming Naturally". The "children" (actually dimwitted grown men Homestar, Homsar, and Strong Mad) are referred to as "life-blossoms", the crayons all have politically correct names ("dermal discoveries" instead of "skin flesh", or "blue" instead of "black") and can't color ("so that no one life-blossom outshines the others. That way, they're ''all'' special!"), and the grades are renamed things like roots and grass to give an eco-friendly image even though they still map to letter grades in concept. Strong Bad is somewhat incredulous.

'''Marzipan''': Oh, pretty standard. }}

* Rarity in ''[[Friendship Is Witchcraft]]'' belongs to one that worships the [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Blob Monster|Smooze]]. Fluttershy is the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|colt]] leader.