Are YOU in A Cult?

[cheranne]

mount vernon - http://mountvernonblog.blogspot.com/

This caught my attention,

This blazon of cerebration is the aforementioned as added band leaders like Victor Paul Wierwille of The Way International who died of an illness. Apparently article was amiss with his faith, and additionally for Hobart Freeman, who too, died of an affliction that may accept been medically treatable.

[Human without the bean]

No I'm not in a cult. Are You?

Here's some things that could mean you (not you cheranne) are in a cult!

The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader. (Sounds familiar?)

Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged. ( Questions????? Who me?)

Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions) La shanta elo shabaka bla bla bla.......

The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (Deja Vu)

The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, (this one doesn't ring a bell?)

The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.

Nobody here that falls into that category)!

Am I in a cult?

[teachmevp]

The Monotheism of Abraham and his seed through Isaac was a cult back in them days,

and still looked at as a cult by some today?

[Human without the bean]

Are we looking forward or backward? A new heaven and new earth? Future towards eternity or the past backwards to original sin?

[Human without the bean]

Aren't we in the wrong thread for this conversation teachmevp? This is Are You in a cult?

[teachmevp]

It seems we have roots in a cult, that is what I was trying to show, Monotheism

of the Israelites, we have roots in that?

[Human without the bean]

I can appreciate that. We are sons of Abraham. So it seems we are from the lineage of a cult too!

[bulwinkl]

Thinking outside of conventional thought means you are in a cult. whether that defines "rightness or error" has nothing to do with truth. Just because a majority or a large percentage of people believe something, has no bearing on what is reality. I'm not defending what was done under TWI. but that argument holds no water. "If no one believes believes it, it's still the word" Liberties taken with that quote. It supposes that there is a definable "WORD" if not it's just the meanderings of dis-illusioned people.

Edited September 11, 2010 by bulwinkl

[cheranne]

It is the twisted scripture that bother me! When I was looking for Truth ,I thought ....The Way Biblical Research and Teaching "Ministry"

(cough cough!!! Throwing up a little)was the answer.

Wrong.

[chockfull]

No. But I used to be