waco conflagration precedents burning yourself alive seems a rough way to go given the waco bunch had other choices but it reminded me of the russian old believers who thinking the antichrist was coming in grew frantic when peter the great started westernizing russia and reforming the russian church a few years later they locked themselves in their churches and burned themselves alive by the thousands are there other cases of apocalypse obsessed christians resorting to self imolation is there a history of precedents andrew
