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...except mine!"
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 saidold guy's penis.
Manson Family, Branch Davidians, Raelians, Heaven's Gate, Latter Day Saints, etc.