I had the same feelings as you Andries, about those who followed other Gurus. Poor , lost souls is what I thought. I thought the Orange People were particularly deluded...always in twos ,with those funny clothes.
"I agree with Jim who wrote that young people who now fall for unreliable gurus are more to blame than those in the 1970s. They have had quite a lot of warnings by now"
...but, don't forget...they are young and weren't born then !
The big plus for them is the easy access to information on the internet.