Characteristics and introduction of cults

A cult refers to an illegal organization that is established under the false name of religion, qigong or other means, deifies its leading members, and uses means such as creating and spreading fallacies to confuse and deceive others, develop and control members, and endanger society. The following is what I have compiled about what a cult is. I hope you all like it!

The definition of a cult

After in-depth research, French experts believe that it should be based on "a sociological perspective" "Danger" to define a cult: a group that uses science, religion or medical treatment as a guise to cover up its power, mental control and exploitation of believers, in order to ultimately gain unconditional allegiance and obedience from its believers and make them give up social freedom. It is a cult if it harms society, personal freedom, health, education and democratic systems by sharing the same values ??(including ethics, science, citizenship, education, etc.).

The cult (worship group) popular in the Western English-speaking cultural circle, and the cult?sect (worship sect) popular in the French and German cultural circles, the full academic name is pseudo-religious organization with serious criminal nature (Pseudo) Religion).

Basic characteristics of cults

Compared with normal religions, French experts found that cults have the following series of unique characteristics:

The " The "spiritual leader" is supreme and must be obeyed by all believers forever. This "spiritual leader" is often alive and is the founder of the cult. He either borrows the shell of other religions or creates his own sect. For example, the "Scientology" uses ____ to control all actions of believers, but he himself is not restricted by canon rules. He can explain all phenomena.

Based on its years of experience in tracking cult issues, the French Intelligence Agency has summarized the following ten characteristics of cults:

First, cults exercise mental control over their believers. We must act according to the will of the "spiritual leader". The seriousness of this kind of mental control has long exceeded people's imagination.

Second, cults make a lot of money through their followers. Cult leaders almost always do this, so cults often have great financial power. There are also various ways for cults to make money. Some cults require members to pay 3% of their annual income as "membership dues"; some charge fees by holding training classes; some publish journals, educational journals, etc.

Third, cults are divorced from normal social life. The internal laws of a cult are higher than normal social regulations, and believers must first abide by the rules. By removing believers from society, believers will lose the help of family and friends and be completely included in the cult. Even if some regret, it is difficult to escape.

Fourth, cults mostly violate individual bodies. Especially for female believers and children, physical assault, including sexual assault, has become a common tragedy among cult followers.

Fifth, the cult recruits children into its membership. Our country's law prohibits teaching religious content to children. But cults have no scruples.

Sixth, cults are anti-social in nature, that is, society is so "ugly" that only joining the "church" can purify the soul.

Seventh, cults disrupt the normal order of society.

Eighth, cults continue to cause judicial disputes. Besieged and prosecuted Fulbel, a journalist who wrote a book exposing the essence and inside story of the cult, saying that he unreasonably attacked the "Scientology". The court ultimately ruled against Scientology.

Ninth, cults frequently transfer funds.

Tenth, cults try to infiltrate public authorities in order to expand their influence.

As Fubel disclosed, "Scientology" has penetrated into government departments such as the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Culture, and even penetrated around the late former President Mitterrand.

1. What the cult provides is exactly what you have been looking for for a long time but have not found. Strangely enough, he knew exactly what you were missing.

2. Your first contact with a cult opens up a whole new perspective for you.

3. The cult’s worldview is very concise and clear, and can be used to answer all questions.

4. The cult tries to win you over emotionally, and other members quickly become your "good friends."

5. You feel that your new friends will be disappointed if you make critical comments, and you will feel bad if you always have to refuse constant invitations from new friends, because you do not want to be an impolite person.

6. Cults are entering your life more and more, gradually forming a kind of gravity: it seems that it is easier to get in than to get out.

7. Despite this, you still don’t know the situation of the cult. What is required of you is not to think or examine. Your new friends will say, "There's no explanation, you have to experience it yourself. What we're experiencing is on a whole other level?" or something similar.

8. A cult has a master of truth or a messenger from God, and his right to make decisions is not subject to any doubt.

9. The teachings of cults are regarded as the only correct and permanently correct knowledge. They reject traditional science, rational thinking, and reason. They believe that these only focus on the brain, are negative, and belong to the devil. etc.

10. Cults lack a rational discussion culture: Because cults believe that they possess unchangeable truth, they believe that all discussions about their own doctrines and organizations are redundant.

11. Critics within the cult are framed, isolated or expelled.

12. Criticism from outside the cult is taken as evidence that the cult is correct.

13. Cults always feel that they are surrounded by hostile forces and that outsiders are plotting against them.

14. Cults only know two kinds of people: either friends or enemies. Whoever is not our supporter is our opponent.

15. The world is facing a catastrophe, and only the cult itself knows how to save the world or its own believers.

16. The people inside the cult are the elite, while the people outside are taking evil paths, and at best they are the targets of proselytism.

17. Cults can do whatever it takes to achieve their goals.

18. The cult is isolated from other people through special signs or behavioral rules, such as its own language, specific clothing, diet, control of daily life and interference in personal relationships.

19. Cults isolate you from the social relationships you have had so far because these social relationships affect your progress.

20. Cults encourage you to limit your information sources to the cult’s own ideology (don’t read the news, newspapers, literary works, only readings from within the cult)

21. The cult arranges tasks for you, requires you to participate in activities, and takes up almost all of your time (such as selling books and periodicals, attending study classes, participating in activities, praying, meditating, having sex with students, and recruiting new people to join the cult).

22. You rarely act alone. There are always people from the cult coming to pick you up. Maybe you are also asked to stay in the collective residence of the cult. The control over your personal life is called This is support for you to stick to the only right path.

23. Cults also make decisions for you that would normally be made by each individual.

24. Cults openly or implicitly require you to strictly obey, or even ask you to give up yourself, because this is the only way to progress or be saved.

25. If you have doubts about a cult, no one will care about the reasons for your doubts. More importantly, you will hear some ready-made explanations: The system itself is not wrong, but you It's not that time yet.

26. If you fail to make progress, the reason is only within yourself, because you do not believe enough, read not enough, understand not enough, pray not enough, meditate not enough or attend class not enough, etc. .

27. Sometimes you will feel that this cult is scary and feel that you are under pressure, but you will quickly eliminate this idea and try your best to get closer to this cult.

28. The cult collects your money in various names, and tells you that the money is collected for your own good, and you will benefit twice as much.

29. Cults always define righteous things as cults, and define themselves as justice that saves the world, using their own dogma to flaunt the whole world.

30. A cult is similar to a pyramid scheme. By increasing the number of people and developing offline models to achieve their own ulterior purposes, and by controlling the majority of people, they can control more people.

31. The cult will throw out an unattainable church goal and tell you that it will be achieved as long as you work hard.

32. The leaders of cults all look peaceful. They serve as a role model for church members and hint to them in many ways that as long as they work hard, anyone can become a leader of the church. who.

Distribution of cults

According to statistics, there are more than 10,000 cult organizations in the world with hundreds of millions of believers; there are also 1,317 fanatic sects in Western and Southern Europe, 604 in the UK; and 604 in France. There are 173, and there are currently 200 "destructive" cult organizations in Spain. In the future society, due to human emotional needs and personality variations, cult organizations have a tendency to further develop and expand. Cults have led to many tragedies through spiritual indoctrination of obsessed people.

The characteristics of cult organizations are: they all spread superstitious heresies under the guise of saving mankind, they all have a leader who claims to have supernatural powers, and they are the idols worshiped by believers. They are all controlled in the form of secret societies. The masses will use any means to collect money.

In the past, there were hundreds of thousands of so-called "emerging sects" around the world. According to statistics from the "Encyclopedia Britannica" in 1990, they controlled 130 million believers, accounting for 2.5% of the world's population. At the turn of the century, these various sects have developed in various countries. Among them, there are approximately tens of thousands of cult organizations with the purpose of "doomsday theory", which has caused at least tens of millions of believers to be involved in fear and madness. They have penetrated into the earth's atmosphere. Every corner has become a factor of social instability, making governments and people of all countries uneasy.

In 1992, about a quarter of the 48 international terrorist organizations active in the world carried out cult activities under the banner of religion, endangering people's normal lives.

The judicial institutions of most countries have severely cracked down on cults. However, there are also some countries or political systems that condone, tolerate, appease, or do nothing to deal with cult activities for the sake of temporary interests. Some cult organizations use hard and soft means to deceive, use, pressure or curry favor with the authorities, secretly instigate ideological conflicts, manipulate elections, take advantage of legal loopholes, and bribe key officials, resulting in ambiguous government attitudes, policy swings, inconsistencies, and internal and external inconsistencies. , causing governance errors and leading the social development process to detours or astrays.

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