I DARE say, creating religions has become a movement in and on itself..not in the "top-down" conspiracy way, I meant it's spontaneous but..there HAS to be an explanation for so many weird cults popping up in the past few century\few decades, and how politically important some of them have become , in certain countries.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_new_religious_movements
Some quick examples off this list:
>branch davidians-wacco
>"moonies", and soka gakkai-HUGE political influence in s. korea, USA, and ,japan
>ISKCO, Osho, had huge cultural impact. lots of rape cases, osho's assistant supposedly plotted terror attack
>Process church, Lavey, Aquino , Thelema(nuff said)
>scientology and chabad: involved with tremendously wealthy people, criminal charges against the leaders
>knights of solar temple: mass suicide
>black hebrew israelites, moors, NOI, Nuwaubians: failed attempts at inciting race-war in the US??