Religious cults

Mind Control is the Foundation of Cults What are cults and what are the issues society argues about them? Many people argue over all different central issues of cults. One issue people argue is that cults cause social and personal disruption. Another issue would be that people in society dismiss the whole notion of cults completely saying that every religion can be viewed as a cult. However, when it comes down to it a cult is simply nothing other than a person using mind control over the

Heritage Dictionary a cult is “1) a system or community of religious worship and ritual 2a) a devoted attachment to, or extravagant admiration for, a person, principle, etc., especially when regarded as a fad b) the object of such attachment 3) a group of followers;” (Aronoff, 2000). Some of the major features of cults as described by Whitsett et al. include family dynamics within cults, child abuse, health issues, and moral development. A common/devastating repercussion of cult participation is losing

Cults Cults are often seen as an alternative religion. “A cult is defined as a religious or secular group that employs unethical and extreme measures of manipulation to recruit, control and retain its members” (Study Resources). Most cults are started because someone doesn’t like the way the world is and want to create what they feel the perfect world is. Then this person strives to make others believe as they do so they will join. There are somewhere around 3,000 to 5,000 of these cults throughout

Not all cults fit into the previously aforementioned definition but become more of the nuanced dysfunctional definition. The media thrives off of featured stories such as a cult in which a man was married to dozens of women and yielded hundreds of children. Others are more menacing with groups breaking into homes and murdering families while others seemingly feel so dedicated to their cause that they kill themselves for the cult. This is the extremism that certain cults establish, however, these

in aluminum coffins, came over to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Tax payers were irate at possibly having to pay for all the embalming and burial costs (“The Horror,” 28). Embalming and burial costs are expensive and many people lost sympathy for cult members. So, people opposed paying for the consequences of the Jonestown massacre. Jim Jones realized he was losing control over the People’s Temple, leading to the Jonestown massacre. Then in 1975, he uprooted his followers and isolated them in Jonestown

The Peoples Temple A cult is a system sharing religious beliefs and devotion towards a specific figure or object. Every system or organization has a leader, and a cult leader is followed blindly by his/her followers. Leadership and control over people is a form of manipulation and the people who mastered it to perfection are the people who are at the top of the pyramid. Jim Jones is the founder of Peoples temple and he is a great example. He became one of the greatest puppet masters in the 20th century

a hypocrite by deceiving others with a façade of piety? Or has Tartuffe deluded himself into accepting his deception as well? One interpretation of Tartuffe paints him as a cult-like figure, dominating Orgon’s life. Common with other cult leaders,

For many years, cults have been a subject of great controversy. A cult is a group of people that are bound together by an appreciation of the same thing, person, ideal, etc. Usually these groups keep close because of religious reasons, but their beliefs are almost always considered strange by outsiders. Cults are similar to clans or congregations, but are usually referred to as sects. There are many different categories that a cult could be sorted into. Apocalyptic, Utopian, Spiritualistic, Satanic

not worship the same gods as the emperor. In 64 AD, a giant fire ripped through Rome and destroyed a large portion of the city. Nero, who was the emperor of the time, blamed the Christians for the fire and destruction to his city. He feared of a religious invasion possibly being carried out by the Christians. As punishment and to strike those who left the group of polytheism, Nero sent many people to death. The only salvation offered was with sacrifice to the emperor and the Roman Gods. After such

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