Anybody ever hear of a Luke Ford?

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Apparantly that guy's (in the film) ideas inspired a group that had a schism that formed another group that the BDs split from.

That part of it sounds like Luke's Dad, Joe.

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Now apparantly there is a direct link from a mad 7th day Adventist heretic who is referred to in that film (there's a character based on him) to the Branch dravidians or whatever they are called. Koresh's mob from Waco.

I see now that Koresh temporarily had an Adventist connection as a young man From wiki:

...He claimed to have become a born-again Christian in the Southern Baptist Church and soon joined his mother's church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church. There he fell in love with the pastor's daughter and while praying for guidance he opened his eyes and allegedly found the Bible open at Isaiah 34, stating that none should want for a mate; convinced this was a sign from God, he approached the pastor and told him that God wanted him to have his daughter for a wife. The pastor threw him out, and when he continued to persist with his pursuit of the daughter he was expelled from the congregation...