and Japan, and was exposed to British missionaries and Pentecostals. He may have been exposed to seedline teachings during this period. P'ikareum is a related ritual which is performed by members of several Korean new religious movements, in which a female devotee has sex with the male leader (who claims to be the messiah) in order to purify her descendants from inherited sin. The purpose of this ritual is to undo the original sin, which (as in the classic serpent seed doctrine) was believed to have been committed when Eve had sex with the serpent. British religious scholar George Chryssides also noted that there were cases in which the messianic leader was a female and the neophyte was a male. The person who is so initiated will then have intercourse with his or her spouse, and the purity which is acquired from the messianic leader will be transmitted to both the spouse and the spouse's progeny. The most notable Korean new religious movement to have faced allegations of performing p'ikareum is the early Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon; however, Chryssides notes that, aside from the use of language which involves the purifying of sinful bloodlines, there is no actual evidence that this ritual occurs within the Unification movement. QAnon Ideas which are similar to the serpent seed doctrine have also been embraced by some believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory. An example of this is the case of Matthew Taylor Coleman, a California surfing instructor who said that he killed his two young children with a spear fishing gun because he believed that they had inherited “serpent DNA” from their mother and would eventually turn into monsters. See also Antisemitism in Christianity Curse and mark of Cain Curse of Ham Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry Ophites Polygenism Pre-Adamite Religious antisemitism Reptilian conspiracy theory References Sources Christianity and antisemitism Branhamism Christian Identity Christian mythology Christian terminology Christian theology of the Bible Gnosticism Heresy in Christianity Kabbalah Kabbalistic words and phrases Protestant theology Unification Church beliefs Religious concepts related with Adam and Eve Snakes in religion