A position of power over people. Most people critize authority until they eventially come into power. Then they complain when they are critized. Hypocrites.
"It's okay to fight everyone else's authority...exceptmine!"
A "religion" usually started by some old guy as an excuse to bang teenage runaway girls he gets to join his "alternative-religion." All rituals somehow involve worship of said old guy's penis.
Manson Family, Branch Davidians, Raelians, Heaven's Gate, Latter Day Saints, etc.