Merry Frummas

Today is the day that John Frum might come back.


The cargo cult of Tannas, New Hebrides, believe that one day a messiah will come back, bearing gifts and prosperity. He will take away all pain and suffering. He'll send all the annoying white people they've had to deal with off the island.

He will come February 15, but no one knows the year.

This cult is clearly influenced by christian missionaries but damn, how it's backfired. John Frum hates the missionaries. He will send them away like Jesus dissing the pharisees. In fact there's a lot in common between John Frum and Jesus, such as the fact that they may or may not have been a real living person, but who knows anymore now that so much bullshit and mythology surrounds their name.

As pointed out by the Cargo Culters of the New Hebrides, their cult is actually less silly than Christianity, because they've only been waiting a couple of decades - Christians have been waiting a couple of millenia.





Don't believe me? Here's a link bomb to convince you:

• John Frum: A Millenarian Movement in Tanna, New Hebrides


• WIKI WIKI WIKIPEDIA! on John Frum


• Smithsonian: In John They Trust

Oh noes... was that culturally insensitive?