Quicker than you can say "order up", those flash mobs turned into a cult, and the cult into a movement with gourmet trucks operated by chefs from up-and-comers to TV celebrities.

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This in turn might lead the Sudanese government to renew its support for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a bizarre cross between a religious cult and a rebel movement based across the border in northern Uganda, which abducts children and makes them attack Ugandan government forces and civilians.

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Although many orthodox rabbis resisted, the Sabbatian movement was hardly a fringe cult.

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