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In your little list of cults, why don't you also add the Transhumanists--those wacky Libertarian types who think they're going to download their brains into immortal prosthetic bodies while the rest of us chumps die in a mere 90 yrs or so? Don't forget those survival of the fittest Objectivists as well--you can't be a laissez faire CEO without using Rand's blandishments as balm on your social conscience.
For fairness' sake, you know. Spread the love to those wacky Rightist weirdos.
I noticed as well a certain, shall we say, anti-Asian slant to your list of superstitions. Don't know what that means . . .