It's honestly hard to believe that one person could have enough charisma, or RIS, as the kids are

saying now. It's hard to believe that one person could have enough Riz and power to manipulate

an entire group of people into doing what they say, no matter the cost. On May 16, 1947,

Roque Therote was born in Quebec, Canada.

For the first two years of his childhood, Roak was more or less a normal kid,

although he was thought to have above-average intelligence, and it was this intelligence which led a pre-teen Roque into a deep fascination with the Bible, in particular the Old Testament,

which he became devoted to studying. In the seventh grade, Roak dropped out of school,

and studying the Bible became his obsession. He held a firm belief that the world was currently

stricken with a war between the forces of good and

evil, which would eventually lead to the end of days. At first, Roak identified as a Catholic,

but quickly converted to Seventh-day Adventist Church, which was more in line with his own beliefs.

Seventh-day Adventists believed that there will be a second coming of Jesus Christ,

resulting in the righteous people being resurrected from the dead into a better world.

In short, it was everything that Roke wanted.

By the 1970s, Roke was no longer content to worship like everybody else.

He wanted to create a miniature society full of righteous

people. But more than that, he wanted a consistent audience who would listen to his preaching

and applaud his speeches. Roke was persuasive, and by the mid-1970s, he had a small group of followers

who agreed to leave their lives behind and live in commune in St. Marie,

Quebec. From the day Roke's religious commune began in 1977, it had all the key characteristics

of a cult. His followers were banned from reaching out to their families, and they became isolated

from the Seventh-day Adventist Church

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