Christian Heresies of the
Twentieth Century:

The "Classical Pentecostal Movement", made in USA:
    Started in 1901 by Parham and Seymour has now over 11,000 Pentecostal denominations throughout the world.
    - In 1901 in the city of Topeka, Kansas, with a handful of students conducted by Charles Fox Parham, a holiness teacher and former Methodist Pastor, started a church movement which he called the "Apostolic Faith".
    - It was not until 1906, however, that pentecostalism achieved worldwide attention through the "Azusa Street Revival" in Los Angeles, California, by the African-American preacher William Joseph Seymour who conducted three services a day, seven days a week, where thousands of seekers received the tongues baptism. At that time of color segregation in the United States, the phenomenon of Blacks and Whites worshiping together under a Black pastor seemed incredible to many observers. Indeed, the color line was washed away in the Blood of Christ, in Los Angeles, "the American Jerusalem", as it called by Frank Bartleman, where the people from all ethnic minorities were represented at Azusa Street.
    A problem: If the Spirit talks and touches me, I don't have to listen to the Church. No Pope, no bishops, no ordained priests.  In each Assembly the leader is it all!
    This birth of Pentecostalism was preceded by the Holiness Churches, the Church of God and the church of Christ of the nineteenth century, and all of them prepared by the Methodists of the eighteenth century.
    2- The "Neo-Pentecostal" movement started in 1960 in Van Nuys, California, under Dennis Bennett, Rector of St Marks Episcopal (Anglican) Church. In ten years it spread to all major Protestant families of the world, reaching a total of 55 million people by 1990.
    3- The Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement started in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1967 among students and faculty of DuQuesne University, and by 1993 it has touched the lives of over 70 million Catholics in over 120 nations.
    4- The Evangelical Charismatics started in 1981 at Fuller Theological Seminary with John Wimber. By 1990, 33 millions in the world were moving in signs and wonders, though they disdain labels such as "pentecostal" and "charismatic".   Holy Spirit, Pentecostal, Charismatics   Origins of the Pentecostal Movement   Denominations-2

Snake Handlers:
    1909- Founded in Tennessee, USA, by George Hensley who died of a snakebite in 1955. Their "ceremonies", last for hours, with music and rhythmic clapping to hypnotize the dozens of poisonous snakes all over the hall... "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God" (Matt.4:7). Cult2-2

Worldwide Church of God (WCG):
    1934, USA- Founded in Eugene, Oregon, USA, by Herbert W. Armstrong, a child of the Adventists, like the Jehovah's Witnesses, proclaims the imminent Second Coming of Jesus Christ, who was announced for 1936, 1943, 1972, 1975... Jesus never came, but it was a good source of income!. influential with its TV programs. The strange doctrine of "Anglo-Israelism" is a special feature. Cults-2

 United Christian Evangelistic Association, Christ United Church:
    1925, USA- Rev. Frederick Eikerenkoetter, known as Rev. Ike, promotes in New York  a "Christianity for earth"... Heaven is replaced by the "now"... you become now successful, rich, and healthy in the name of Jesus... Jesus rode an ass, Rev. Ike prefers to ride a Rolls Royce, and he boasts to have 16!. He does not want a "pie in the sky", he wants a "pie on earth"!. It has been labeled as a "prostitution of Christianity". Cults-2

Moonies, The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity:
    1954- Sun M. Moon in South Korea. The "Moonies" is the Church of heavenly Communism, of  mockery of the Bible, of  big business... and of stupidity. The "sacred Scriptures" are the "Divine Principle" of Moon, the "Outline of the Principle", and the "Bible"... But the "Bible" is used to make a mockery out of it!: Jesus Christ was a perfect man, but "he is not God"; he was the bastard offspring of Zechariah and Mary. Moon is the third Adam, the second Christ to unite all religions, and bring to earth a perfect social system, a perfect family life... earth will be the new Paradise of Eden, with perfect love to God, and brotherhood of all people living in communes, sharing their wealth...
    "Salvation", comes in one of three ways:
    1- Having actual sex with Moon, for the girls.
    2- Having sex with a girl who had sex with Moon, if you are a man.
    3- Working full time for Moon... the most usual way!, and drinking at the wedding ceremony the blood of Moon (2 drops of his blood in 100 gallons of a mixture of 21 ingredients).
    Watch out for the "recruiting"... the "Weekend" and the "Communes", "the Heavenly Communism". Cults-1

National Association of Evangelicals (NAE):
    1942-  A coordinating agency facilitating Christian unity, public witness, and cooperative ministry among evangelical denominations, congregations, educational institutions, and service agencies in the United States. The Association traces its beginnings to April 7-9, 1942, when a modest group of 147 people met in St. Louis with the hopes of reviving the fortunes of evangelical Christianity in America. NAE  Evangelical Christians  Denominations

Wicca:
    1949 - "Modern Witchcraft", commonly called "Wicca", started in England with Gerald Gardener. A Problem for a Christian: You can't be a Wiccan and a Christian, the Bible and the Church condemn Wicca very strongly, and all the wonders of nature can't erase a single sin, and, if you die in sin, you go to Hell... for the same reason you can't be a Christian and a Spiritist or a Santero...
    Wicca indeed is modern witchcraft coming "out of the broom closet"... removed the stereotypical image of witches as ugly old hags with warts on their noses, decked out in black capes and cone-shaped hats, riding their favorite broomstick on a moonlit night... the modern Wiccan may be an attractive female witch dressed in a fashionable, well-tailored business suit or a professional businessmen.
    Most Wiccans do not believe in Hell nor Satan... but it is the usual deception of Satan, who is the source of most Wiccan "experiences"... yes, Hell and Satan do exist... like Paris and Moscow exist, it is a fact!... like it or not... believe it or not... would you dare to to live on earth thinking they do not exist to find out after death that they do exist?... are you "sure" they do not exist?... would you risk eternal Hell on something you are not sure of?. Wicca

The Church of Satan:
    1966 - Founded, by Anton S. LaVey in San Francisco, California. The Black Mass is usually celebrated by a fake priest, but sometimes by a real blasphemous priest, in which case the Mass is valid but sacrilegious. Usually it is blasphemous fake Mass, where the altar is a nude woman, and the vagina is the tabernacle. If possible, a real Host stolen from a Catholic Church is placed in the vagina in the midst of reciting distorted psalms with hot music and all kind of obscenities, coursing Jesus and honoring Satan. The fake priest ends up having real sex, with the Host still in the vagina. Condemned by all Christians and the Bible in the strongest terms (The Occult)  Satanism   

Church of Scientology:
    1954, USA- Lafayette Ronald Hubbard in California after writing "Dianetics". It is a Hindu interplanetary fiction novel, with a kind of  "Catholic Confession", called "auditing" ... a bad place to spend lots of money. Cults-2

    - The Way International:
    1957, USA- Victor Paul Wierwille in 1957, in Ohio. His book "Jesus Christ is not God" says it all... to practice "glossolalia" 30 minutes per day is a part of salvation. "Power of Abundant Living" courses.

Church Universal and Triumphal, Summit Lighthouse:
    1958, USA- Founded,  in Montana by Mark L. Prophet, it is now lead by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, after the death of her husband in 1973. It is a Hindu religion, with biblical connotations, specially the "I Am" of Ex.3:14. Jesus is not God. He was only the "mediator" between God and men, the role now Mrs. Prophet has. Salvation is by doing good Karma (deeds), to reincarnate in a better form.
    It is not so "triumphant" on earth, rather they are so afraid that they have built huge underground shelters, able to accommodate 100,000 people, stocked with food for protection from an impending nuclear holocaust... And it is not that "universal", because most of their members live in Montana, nearby the Shelters. Cults-2 

United Unitarian Universalist Association:
    Formed in 1961 by the merger of the American Unitarian Association and the Unitarian Universalist Church of America to speak as one on social and political questions. They unite the Unitarians and Universalists of the 18th Century and the Socinians ot the 16th century.
    It has been labeled as the "schizophrenia" of Christianity, trying to unite the Christians, by denying the Trinity, the deity of Jesus, and proclaiming universal complete salvation of all living beings. Luther tried to destroy the roofs of Catholicism; Calvin its wall; and Socinus its foundation. Cults-2 

Fraternity of St. Pius X:
    Founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of France, after the Vatican II, 1965. He consecrated 200 priests against the authority of the Pope.
    They celebrate the Mass only in Latin, with the old order of St. Pius X. Their main "objection" is the change in the Consecration of the word "many", by the word "all", but St. Paul uses both words talking about the same issue in successive verses, Romans 5:18,19: Jesus died "for all" human beings, but only "many" will appropriate his redemption. The Fraternity is excommunicated from the Catholic Church. Denominations-2

Church of "Palmar de Troya",  or "Carmelites of the Holy Face":
    Founded by Clemente Dominguez, in 1969 in "Palmar de Troya", 40 Kilometers from Seville, Spain. Condemned by the Church. Clemente proclaimed himself "the Pope", with the name of Gregory XVII, there are only a few hundreds, but with lots of money, building a great Basilica, behind tall walls. Denominations-2

Churches for Homosexuals, Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC):
    1968, USA- by Troy Perry who claims that he and other homosexuals experienced on "coming out of the closed". It has very good intentions, however, the worst attitude about any vice, including homosexuality, is "to boast" about it, and "to applause others who practice it", as it says in Rom.1:32... no one should be proud or boast to be a murderer, or an alcoholic, or a thief, or a liar, or a prostitute, or a divorcee, or a homosexual... the reason why God chastised so severely Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 19 is because they were proud of their immoral sexual activities, and they applauded those who openly did them or boasted about them.
    The Church is universal, catholic, not one one for a murderers, another for alcoholics, another for homosexuals... Cults-2

Children of God (COG), Family of Love, Heaven's Magic:
    1969, USA- David Berg, who changed his name to Moses Berg, and is called "MO". The "COG" is the literal "prostitution of Christianity"; "Sex for Jesus" is their logo... they will offer you the "MO letters", saying "Jesus loves you"... in the "Communes" and outside encourage and practiced homosexuality, incest, adultery, fornication, adult-child sex, polygamy... "MO" is violently Anti-Semitic. Cults-2

New Age:
    1980s - The term "New Age", was coined by the spirit medium "Alice Bailey" of the Theosophical Society of America, who died in 1949, but it became common parlance after the musical "Hair" launched the concept of the Age of Aquarius on a popular and international scale. This "utopia" is the greatest menace to Christianity, more than any other cult... New age has been catalogued as the AIDS of all heresies.
    The "New Age" of Aquarius is an Astrology doctrine of the 1980s, proclaiming the human race is at the verge of a "gigantic quantum leap", to realize that every human is God... and when that happens, it will be the "New Age", a glorious time with only one nation on earth, one language, one government, one religion, one monetary system... with only love on earth, the "golden age"!, without hate, violence, wars, crime, racism, and without sickness nor death!... it the old lie of Satan of Genesis 3:4-5... you will be like God! 
    The New Age is an  umbrella, an amorphous collection of belief systems... over 1,000 in the Internet!... Unlike most formal religions, it has no holy text, central organization, membership, formal clergy, geographic center, dogma, creed, etc...
    It is nothing "new", just the old time ancient religions, cults, all kind of superstitions, and false Hinduism and Mormonism. Mention it, and you have it in the New Age methods, anything but the truths of Christianity, Judaism and Islam... the methods range through the alphabet of superstition, from acupuncture to Zen Buddhism, taking in yoga meditation, mysticism, spiritualism, crystals, pyramids, clairvoyance, biofeedback, reincarnation therapies, tarot cards, ouija boards, astrology, tea leaves, occult devices, dream therapy, holistic healing, astrological charts, parasychologic mystic experiences, telepathy, self-hypnosis, mind control, spiritistic channelling, balancing the yin and yan, witchcraft rituals, hypnosis, meditation, the use of hallucinogenic drugs or any kind of drug, Egyptian knowledge, mantras, angiology, extraterrestrial beings, neurolinguistic trainers, herbologists, guided imaginary, centering, polarity therapy, reflexology, therapeutic touching, homeopathy... and, of course, any kind of super-sexual activity... New-Age   

Peoples Temple: Jim Jones... "Guayana, Jonestown":
    "Guayana" was the scene of the Jonestown mass suicide in 1978 where 913 members of the "People's Temple" died after drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid. Some, according to survivors, were shot down trying to escape. Cults-2

Branch Davidians, WACO:
    1986- "Vernon Howell", changed his name to "David Koresh"... They are no longer in existence since the 82 death in the fire at WACO, Texas, in 1993, after the tragic 50-day siege. Cults-2