Definition of cult
After in-depth study, French experts believe that cults should be defined as "danger" from the perspective of sociology: a group covers up its power, spiritual control and exploitation of its followers under the guise of science, religion or treatment, so as to finally gain unconditional loyalty and obedience from its followers and make them give up their common social values (including ethics, science, citizenship, education, etc.). ), thus contributing to society, individual freedom, health and safety.
Cult (worship group) in western English cultural circles and Cult in French and German cultural circles? Sect (Sect worship) is called pseudo-religion and has serious criminal nature.
Basic characteristics of cults
French experts found that compared with normal religions, cults have the following exclusive characteristics:
The "spiritual leader" of a cult is supreme, and all believers must obey it forever. This "spiritual leader" is often alive and the founder of a cult. He either founded a sect under the guise of other religions. For example, "Scientology" controls all the actions of believers with the help of _ _ _ _, and he himself can be free from the restrictions of the canon. He can explain everything.
Based on years of experience in tracking cults, the French General Intelligence Service summarized ten characteristics of cults:
First of all, cults exercise spiritual control over their followers, and believers must act according to the will of "spiritual leaders." The severity of this kind of mind control has already exceeded people's imagination.
Second, cults accumulate wealth through believers. Almost all cult leaders do this, so cults often have strong economic strength. There are also various ways for cults to collect money. Some cults require members to pay 3% of their annual income as "membership fees"; Some charge fees by holding training courses; Some publish periodicals and teaching periodicals.
Third, cults are divorced from normal social life. The internal laws of cults are higher than normal social laws and regulations, and believers must first abide by the rules. If believers are divorced from society, they will lose the help of their family and friends and fully integrate into the cult. Some people can't leave even if they regret it.
Fourth, cults mostly infringe on individuals' bodies. Especially for female believers and children, personal attacks, including sexual assault, have become a frequent tragedy among cult followers.
Fifth, cults recruit children to join. Our country's laws prohibit teaching religious content to children. But cults have no scruples.
Sixth, cults are anti-social, that is, the society is so "ugly" that only joining the "church" can purify the soul.
Seventh, cults disturb the normal social order.
Eighth, cults constantly cause judicial disputes. The journalist Faubert, who wrote a book to expose the nature and inside story of his cult, was besieged and prosecuted, saying that he attacked Scientology unreasonably. The court finally ruled that Scientology lost the case.
Ninth, cults often transfer funds.
Tenth, cults try to infiltrate public power institutions to expand their influence.
As Faubert disclosed, "Scientology" has penetrated into the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Culture and other government departments, and even penetrated into the late former President Mitterrand.
1, what the cult provides is exactly what you have been looking for for for a long time but haven't found. It's strange that he happens to know what you missed.
2. Being exposed to cults for the first time has opened a new horizon for you to look at things.
3. The cult's worldview is very simple and clear, and it can answer all questions.
Cults try to woo you emotionally, and other members will soon become your "good friends".
5. You think those new friends will be disappointed if you criticize, and you will feel sorry if you always refuse the constant invitation of new friends, because you don't want to be a rude person.
6. Cults are entering your life more and more, and gradually form a kind of attraction: it seems that it is easier to get in than to get out.
Even so, you still don't know anything about cults. What is required of you is, don't think and don't test. Your new friend will say something like "This is inexplicable, we have to experience it ourselves, and what we have experienced is completely another level".
8. A cult has a master who holds the truth or is the messenger of God, and his decision-making power is beyond doubt.
9. The teachings of cults are regarded as the only correct and permanently correct knowledge, rejecting traditional science, rational thinking and rationality, believing that they only attach importance to the brain, which is negative and belongs to the devil.
10, cults lack a rational discussion culture: because cults believe that they have unchangeable truth, they think that all discussions about their own teachings and organizations are unnecessary.
1 1. Critics within the cult were framed, isolated or expelled.
12, criticism from outside the cult is regarded as evidence that the cult is correct.
13, cults always feel that they are surrounded by hostile forces and outsiders are plotting against themselves.
14. Cults only know two kinds of people: friends or enemies, either our supporters or our opponents.
15, the world is facing a catastrophe, and only cults themselves know how to save the world or their followers.
16, the people inside the cult are elites, while the people outside are misguided, at best, they are the targets of missionary work.
17, cults can stop at nothing to achieve their goals.
18. Cults are separated from others by special signs or rules of conduct, such as their own language, specific clothing, diet, control of daily life and interference in private relations.
19. Cults isolate you from the social relations so far, because these social relations affect your progress.
20. Cults urge you to limit the source of information to the cult's own ideology (no news, no newspapers, no literary works, only books inside the cult).
2 1. Cults assign you tasks and let you participate in activities, which occupy almost all your time (such as selling books and periodicals, attending classes, attending activities, praying, meditating, reading together, and bringing new people into the church).
22. You seldom go out alone. Cults always come to pick you up. Maybe you were asked to stay in the collective residence of the cult. Taking control of your personal life means supporting you to stick to the only right path.
23. Cults will also make decisions for you that everyone usually makes.
24. Cults either explicitly or implicitly ask you to obey strictly, 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 cults, no one will care about the reasons for your doubts. More importantly, you will hear some ready-made explanations: the system itself is correct, but you haven't arrived yet.
If you can't make progress, it's only because you don't believe, read, understand, pray, meditate or attend classes.
27. Sometimes you will find this cult terrible and feel pressured, but you will soon get rid of this idea and try to get closer to it.
28. Cults charge you money in various names, telling you that it is for your own good, and you will get double benefits then.
29. Cults always define justice as a cult, but they define themselves as justice to save the world and flaunt the whole world with their own dogmas.
30. Cults are similar to pyramid schemes. By increasing the number of people and developing the offline mode, we can achieve our ulterior purpose and control more people by controlling the majority.
3 1, the cult will throw out an unreachable church goal and tell you that it will be achieved as long as you work hard.
32. The leader of the cult looks peaceful. They played a publicity role for church members, and hinted in many ways that anyone can become a leader of the church as long as they work hard.
Distribution of cults
According to statistics, there are more than 10000 cult organizations in the world with hundreds of millions of followers. There are also 13 17 fanatical sects in western and southern Europe, and there are 604 in Britain; There are 173 in France and 200 "destructive" cult organizations in Spain. In the future society, due to the needs of human emotion and personality variation, cult organizations have a trend of further development and growth. Cults indoctrinate addicts, leading to many tragedies.
The characteristics of cult organizations are: all spread superstition and heresy under the guise of saving mankind, all have a leader who claims to be supernatural, all control the masses in the form of secret associations, and all try their best to collect money.
In the past, there were several hundred thousand so-called "emerging sects" in the world. According to the statistics of Encyclopedia Britannica 1990, they controlled1300,000 followers, accounting for 2.5% of the world population. At the turn of the century, these different sects have developed in all countries. Among them, there are tens of thousands of cult organizations with the purpose of "doomsday theory", which has at least caused tens of millions of believers to be involved in fear and frenzy. They have penetrated into every corner of the earth, becoming an unstable factor in society and making governments and people in various countries fidgety.
From 65438 to 0992, 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 life.
The judicial organs of most countries severely crack down on cults, but some countries or regimes condone, tolerate, tolerate or do nothing about cult activities for temporary interests. Some cult organizations use soft and hard means to deceive, use, pressure or please the authorities, secretly provoke ideological contradictions, manipulate elections, take advantage of legal loopholes, and buy important people, resulting in ambiguous government attitudes, vacillating policies, inconsistencies at home and abroad, leading to administrative mistakes, and making the social development process detour or divergent.
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