What is the content of anti-cult education and propaganda?

The contents of anti-cult education and publicity include understanding what cults are and cult organizations, the nature and basic characteristics of cults, and how to prevent and resist cults.

Anti-cult knowledge education and publicity materials:

1. What is a cult.

A cult refers to an illegal organization established under the false name of religion, qigong or other means, deifying its leading members, using means such as creating and spreading superstitious heresies to confuse and deceive others, develop and control members, and endanger society.

2. The social harm of cults.

(1) Inciting opposition to the government and endangering grassroots political power. Cult leaders incite members to vent their dissatisfaction with reality and oppose the government. Some cults publicly stated, "We have three major enemies in front of us: one is the Three-Self Church, the other is the Communist Party, and the third is the government." Some cults openly advertise the slogan of "overthrowing the leadership of the Communist Party, seizing power, and establishing the Kingdom of God."

Some cult organizations also purposefully win over the party, league members and grassroots cadres, and erode grassroots party and government organizations.

(2) Engage in illegal and criminal activities and harm society. Cult organizations often use methods such as kidnapping, illegal detention, pornographic seduction, intimidation and even killing to expand the organization and control members. Cult organizations defraud people of their money by collecting "donations" and selling cult supplies.

The "leader" of a certain cult deceived members by saying that "the main purpose of religion is to despise money" and "money is the most harmful to spirituality". However, he squandered the "donation money" turned in by members and lived a luxurious life. Life. Cult organizations illegally print and disseminate a large number of cult books and propaganda materials to promote fallacies and heresies. The leader of the cult raped and played with women, seriously damaging their physical and mental health.

(3) Destroy normal production and life and endanger people’s health. The cult advocates "doomsday theory", and preaches such fallacies as eating "blessed food", "life food" and "everything depends on God's gift", causing some people to be deceived and busy all day long believing in "religion" and preaching "religion" , There are fields but not farming, there are jobs but not working, and some go out to preach "religion", which leads to the breakdown of families and the loss of families.

The cult also preaches that "belief in the Lord can avoid disasters, and prayer can cure diseases", and nonsense that "as long as you pray sincerely, without injections or medicines, the disease will be cured naturally", and it does not allow sick members to go to the hospital for medical treatment. , or use deception to treat members' illnesses, causing them to become disabled, insane or even dead.

(4) Corruption and poisoning of minors. Cults take advantage of minors' low ability to identify and judge, and try their best to recruit members among minors, causing irreparable damage to their physical and mental health and growth.

3. Basic characteristics of cults.

(1) The supreme god who deifies his "leader" and "creates" a person to live in the human world. All cults have a leader who appears as a "savior". They usually call themselves prophets, leaders, messengers, leaders, masters, etc. They claim to have supernatural powers such as special functions and spiritual induction, and are omniscient and omnipotent.

(2) It is well-organized, has secretive activities, and has a totalitarian structure. "Association" is the main means for cults to establish a "secret kingdom" and expand their evil power.

(3) Exploiting believers’ money and illegally making huge profits. The "leaders" often use all means to test the piety of their believers and use all means to lure them into buying supplies for their cult activities, while they themselves profit from it.

(4) Under the guise of religion, undermining religious order and freedom of belief. Generally speaking, cults usually use the guise of religion, wear religious cloaks, and borrow religious terminology to promote their own fallacies and heresies by disparaging the reputation of religion and disrupting religious order.

(5) Implement mind control. Cult "leaders" often induce, coerce and control the psychology and consciousness of believers through so-called magical powers, spiritual temptations, threats of violence, psychological suggestions and other means, so that they willingly accept the "leader"'s will and are at his mercy. This is the sinister intention of all cults, and it is also the source of the most serious harm caused by cults.

4. How do cults deceive people?

(1)? Deceiving people under the guise of religion or qigong.

(2) To seduce people by treating diseases and avoiding disasters.

(3) Use various tricks such as fortune-telling, pretending to be gods and ghosts, and playing prophecies (pronounced as "Ri", superstitious prophecies and omens) to scare people.

(4) Set almost to win over people.

(5) Small favors are used to buy people off.

(6) Use violence to coerce people.

5. The difference between religion and cult.

Religion: worshiping superhuman "gods", and religious clergy are just servants of gods; cults: the leader is a living person, but claims to be the supreme "god" and requires absolute worship and absolute obedience from believers ; Religion: providing people with well-intentioned spiritual sustenance and belief support; Cult: inculcating fallacies and heresies into believers and exercising mental control by any means necessary.

Religion: promotes illusory "eschatology" and places the end of the world in the distant future; cult: exaggerates the coming "eschatology" and uses it to deceive and intimidate believers.

Religion: Belief activities are relatively tolerant and free, and the morals promoted are mostly ethics and morals recognized by human society for thousands of years; Cult: deceive believers, often using the name of God to force believers to give everything they have to the leader, and also call for Female believers "dedicate" their bodies to the male leader.

Religion: activities and their venues are generally public, and most religious precepts are consistent with the law and do not endanger the basic rights of believers (citizens) granted by the constitution and law; cult: secret associations, activity venues are not open to the public , implement isolation control on believers, and use threats, retaliation and other means against those who leave the religion and rebel.

Religion: Its teachings are compatible with the real world and do not exclude the real world. To a certain extent, it can encourage good and forbid evil and guide a positive life; Cult: It confronts the real world and instigates people to escape and destroy this world. Extreme behaviors often lead to paranoia and fanaticism, causing serious social harm.

6. Why should we be wary of cults?

Cults make people poor. They use various names to deceive the masses into donating money, so that the masses do not engage in production, resulting in wasteful production. Cults destroy families. They induce people to leave their homes and go on "missionary missions". As a result, many families are separated and their families are ruined. ?

Cults destroy lives. They deceive the public that as long as they believe in the "religion", they can be sick without medical treatment or taking medicine. Those who are deceived have their minor illnesses turned into serious illnesses or even death. Cults engage in illegal and criminal activities. Most cult organizations engage in kidnapping, extortion and even murder.

7. How to identify cults.

Cults all lie about being a religion and carry out activities under the banner of religion. Cults claim to "believe in God," "believe in religion," "believe in Jesus," and "preach the gospel," but they actually make people believe in their own cult leaders, such as the "Female Jesus" and the "Three Atonements."

Generally, they have the following characteristics: cults sneak into people’s homes to “preach” and hold gatherings in secret. They don’t even dare to say their real names and use some kind of “spiritual name” or pseudonym. Cults use small favors to attract people, causing them to abandon their fields, homes, and schools to believe in "gods." The cult preaches that the "end of the world" is coming, and only by joining their organization can one be saved.

The cult preaches that "teaching" can cure diseases and eliminate disasters and provide refuge. Cults make people regard the government, society, and ordinary people as "devils," and use the name of "god" to incite the deceived people to go against the government, and so on.

8. How to oppose and resist cults.

The fight against cult organizations is a contest between justice and evil, civilization and ignorance, progress and retrogression. It is a serious struggle to safeguard national security and social and political stability. Each of our citizens must "advocate science and reject cults" and consciously resist all kinds of propaganda and disruptive and sabotage activities of cults.

(1) Be vigilant and recognize the reactionary nature of cult organizations. Strictly abide by national laws and regulations and social ethics, professional ethics, and family virtues, be scientific, civilized, establish new practices, actively participate in healthy and civilized cultural and sports activities, and consciously resist the erosion of cults.

(2) We must have a firm attitude and do not listen to, read, believe, or spread the reactionary propaganda of cult organizations.

(3) Dare to fight and actively cooperate with the public security organs and relevant departments to crack down on illegal and criminal activities of cult organizations.

(4) If it is found that other cult members are illegally organizing, secretly gathering, gathering to cause trouble, printing, smuggling, distributing, and mailing large amounts of reactionary propaganda, writing, spraying, hanging, and posting reactionary slogans with cult content , engage in TV interruptions, etc., immediately report to the relevant local government departments or dial 110 to call the police.

(5) If someone promotes "Quiting from the Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of China, the Nine Commentaries," etc., or passes propaganda materials (CDs, books, printed materials, etc.) of cult organizations to you, you must report them first Call the police immediately and assist the public security organs to stop their behavior.

(6) When you see reactionary materials such as flyers, letters, emails, CDs, and faxes from cults, you should immediately report them to the public security organs or unit security departments, and the public security (security) personnel will conduct verification and processing.

(7) When you receive text messages or emails with cult propaganda content, you must delete them immediately; if you receive harassing phone calls with cult propaganda content, you must hang up directly.

(8) When you find words with cult content printed on RMB, you must promptly report it to the public security organs, and then go to the bank to exchange it to avoid continued circulation and negative consequences.

(9) When you find spray-painted slogans with cult content or hanging banners with cult content, you must report it to the public security organs in a timely manner.

(10) When it is found that family members, relatives and friends are involved in cult activities, they must resolutely oppose it and patiently persuade, educate and provide correct guidance.

Heshan District People’s Government