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French cults
We could do well by taking after the French when it comes to defining and dealing with cults. You don't see too many Hare Krishna's around Paris.
Posted to Explainer by david wayne osedach on October 28, 2009
I hear ya
Environmentalism channeled to kids via public television (and private television discharging its mandatory programming) and the schools has the irritating aspects of religion and political parties: indoctrinating dogma (vs. teaching), shunning and stigmatizing dissidents as harming the community (no matter how small the challenge), encouraging ...
Posted to Family by OG Sassafrass on April 21, 2009
Fantastic article!
Someone tell me why those in the USA who try so hard to get the 10 commandments posted all over in our public square and taught to our kids in school break so many of them trying to get that done? And also fight so hard to take money from the poor and middle class and put in the hands of the rich? And also to keep corporate greed-based health ...
Posted to Faith-Based by redneckliberalpostbush on November 30, 2008
definition of cults
Thanks for the article, Mark. Oddness of belief doesn't make a cult, but does secrecy? It's the progressive revelation of doctrine as you get more involved in Scientology that's disconcerting to me. This is not present in Christianity, Judaism or Islam -- contrary to what the DaVinci Code has instilled in the popular imagination.
Posted to Faith-Based by zannejude on August 12, 2008
Lieing Hypocrites
What an article. Talk about no research. Did the author just call up the JW PR department and copy down everything they told him? Yes, the Watchtower Society promoted the fact that the poor Witnesses in the African country of Malawi were being persecuted because they were told by the Watchtower not to buy a political I.D. card. If they did the ...
Posted to Explainer by Harry Harr on June 28, 2008
Other cults Jehovah's Witnesses
The Jehovah's Witnesses have settled lawsuits alleging church policies protected pedophile men who sexually abused children for many years. JW Frederick McLean is one of the most-wanted fugitives in the United States http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21917798/ Jehovah's Witnesses pedophile cover up problem at a glance:It's the WAY that the ...
Posted to Explainer by DannyHaszard on April 18, 2008
Re: Obamamaniac
''Instantly Disqualifying'' people who have their own opinions instantly disqualifies you as a rational member of this community, honey. Yes, he has a website. Yes, he has positions. However, many candidates in years past have had ''positions'' that they have been unable or unwilling to actually act on once they were elected. As for ''vague ...
Posted to Low Concept by lucidbunny on February 20, 2008
It's funny, but...
At the end of this piece, it's supposed to be a stab at the younger voters for not standing by Barack Obama unconditionally. But, isn't unconditional devotion to someone like a presidential candidate a little scary? Haven't the ''Gen X ers'' learned well enough in the last eight years that you have to be careful whom you trust and elect in ...
Posted to Low Concept by lucidbunny on February 20, 2008
Oh, please
The guy is preachy. He does call-and-response sermons, he freely dispenses religious language and his core message is essentially spiritual, although during the past week his campaign has begun to respond to the ''cult'' criticism by having him resort to explicitly political themes. Certainly not all Obama supporters fit the personality cultist ...
Posted to Low Concept by betty_the_crow on February 16, 2008
Cults
Cults, cults, cults. So 1970's? Usually you hear them associated with the '60's. And then usually it is the International Society for Krsna Consciousness as I politely put it. In Indian philosophy it is called a cult of devotion. It's something yogic, something from India, but then it is turned around in the media to mean affection for a ...
Posted to Low Concept by eddie2008 on February 15, 2008

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