“God told me to burn you alive. You understand, right?”

Before Jim Jones served Kool-Aid like it was communion wine from Hell, before “cult” became a Netflix genre, Uganda had its own apocalypse - and it came with fire, silence, and a death toll that’ll slap your soul.

Let me introduce you to the delightfully misleadingly-named:
The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God.

Sexy name.
Not-so-sexy ending.
Let’s get into this hellish mess.

🌩️ The Virgin Mary Was Their CEO

Founded in the late 1980s by a squad of doomsday rejects - mostly former Catholic priests and visionaries who said the Virgin Mary was dropping hot apocalyptic gossip into their dreams - the cult started out with your classic red flags:

• Celibacy for salvation (yawn)

• Silence for enlightenment (sure, Jan)

• No lying, no stealing, no disobedience

• No talking at all unless it was to confess sins

• Also: No soap operas because... Satan, probably

They claimed the world would end on December 31, 1999 - and if you wanted to dodge that flaming bullet, you needed to sell everything, hand it to the cult, and shut the hell up.

😬 Spoiler Alert: The Apocalypse Was a No-Show

1999 came. 1999 went.
And the Earth didn’t explode. Not even a polite tremor.

Cue hundreds of followers getting suspicious. Like, "I gave up my house AND Days of Our Lives for this??"

The leaders panicked. They couldn't keep the scam going. So they came up with the only plan more twisted than a Gemini on a full moon:

“The new end of the world is March 17, 2000! Mass is mandatory!”

And hunny... they meant mass destruction.

🔥 March 17, 2000 – Uganda’s Day of Hell

Followers were herded into a church.
The doors were locked.
The windows sealed.
And someone doused the place in fuel.

Then came the spark.
Over 700 people were burned alive - including children.

When investigators dug deeper (literally), they found mass graves. Dozens more bodies were buried behind the cult’s properties. Some had been poisoned. Others stabbed, or hacked apart. It wasn’t just one fire - it was a calculated, multi-site slaughter, disguised as a ticket to heaven.

💀 Not Suicide. Not “Tragedy”. Straight-Up Mass Murder.

This wasn’t about lost souls.
This wasn’t misguided faith.
This was manipulation, profit, control and death on a diabolical scale.

The cult leaders?
Disappeared. Like shadows.
Some believe they escaped. Others think they burned with the followers to dodge accountability.

Either way, no justice. No answers. No mainstream headlines.
Why? Because it happened in Uganda, not America. Because it didn’t fit the Western cult narrative. Because the victims were poor, and already forgotten by the world before their bones cooled.

🕯️ Why It Still Matters

Because silence is the deadliest tool in the arsenal.
Because religion can heal - or it can burn.
And because history has a nasty habit of repeating itself when no one’s looking.

So yeah, you’ve heard of Jonestown. But now you know Uganda’s version - and it’s just as terrifying. The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments didn’t restore a damn thing.

But we remember them.
Because we’re Naturally Wicked. And forgetting ain’t our style.