Cults

[chloe]

If you had to join a cult which one would you join? Add em if ya got them.....:laugh2:

[SassyLady]

If you had to jopin a cult which one would you join? Add em if ya got them.....:laugh2:

I was evaluated for a psychology class I took way back when ... and I'm not a good candidate for a cult. I'm not a good follower, not a good "groupthink" person, and my intuition is too high.

[chloe]

I was evaluated for a psychology class I took way back when ... and I'm not a good candidate for a cult. I'm not a good follower, not a good "groupthink" person, and my intuition is too high.


I guess I would go the hare krishna route:laugh2:

[Gaffer]

I'll remain an atheist. Those are too freaky for me.

[chloe]

I remeber that one.
Here's some of there beliefs



Pedophilia and incest


In the 80s, suspicions arose about the movement's care of their children, and their policies regarding child-adult sex. Several members had left that group and began talking to the media. Berg's writings displayed an interest in, and lack of concern regarding sexual contact with children. Berg claimed to be challenging modern-day taboos about adult/child sexuality, ignoring society's laws and boundaries.

"The only way to get free of (the devil) and his lies and his prohibitions and guilt complexes about sex is to get rid of his lies and his lying propaganda, his anti-sex propaganda, and believe the Lord and his word and his creation and God's love and his freedom! - that there is nothing in the world at all wrong with sex as long as it's practised in love, whatever it is or whoever it's with, no matter who or what age or what relative or what manner -- and you don't hardly dare even say these words in private. If the law ever got a hold of this, they would try to string me up! They would probably lynch me before I got to the jail! When Paul said "All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient" (1 COR 6: 12), he was as good as saying, "I can indulge in any kind of sex I want to, but I've got to watch out for the System because it's against the law!" (Maria/Zerby: At least not let'em find out if you do it!)... We are free in privacy, and that's about all, and we mightn't be free if they discovered what we do in private!... There are no relationship restrictions or age limitations in his law of love.... If you hate sex you are one of the devil's crowd! If you think it's evil, then God and love are evil, for he created it! Come on, let's love and enjoy it like God does! He loves it.!" ("The Devil Hates Sex -- But God Loves It!" David Berg, May 1980)





Women who objected to being what the cult itself bluntly described as "God's whores" or "hookers for Jesus" were admonished not to "let self and pride enter in" and reminded that their body didn't really belong to them as according to 1 corinthians 6:19–20 it had been "bought" (by Jesus through his crucifixion) "with a price." After an initial phase, male members no longer partook in this drive, partially because of the cult's dismissive stance towards homosexuality, but also because Berg thought it did not "pay off financially." Many of the Flirty Fishers had boyfriends or were married, or had children. In Family publications, Flirty Fishers and Escort Servicers frequently reported that they found their work hard, dangerous, and exhausting.


http://www.exfamily.org/hist/

[revelarts]

they are all pretty bad Chloe,
Seeesh
"If you had to join one"?
the "Or else" would have to be pretty Hellish Chloe.

Brrrr

[chloe]

they are all pretty bad Chloe,
Seeesh
"If you had to join one"?
the "Or else" would have to be pretty Hellish Chloe.

Brrrr


Yeah, what if you were born into one, how could you believe in God after all that?

[revelarts]

People have believed in the Creator after worse Chloe.
He's God for real so he's got a bit of an advantage.

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[revelarts]

Yeah, what if you were born into one, how could you believe in God after all that?
-answer 2-
Carefully

[chloe]

-answer 2-
Carefully


I guess you weren't born into one.

[chloe]

[QUOTE=revelarts;458207]People have believed in the Creator after worse Chloe.
He's God for real so he's got a bit of an advantage.

Give examples please, so besides a cult that practices incest and sex with children, all i can think of as worse is a cult worshipping satanism and murder, so whats worse to you?

[Noir]

Gawd knows, I was brought up Protestant and the very idea of my fellow brothers and sisters burning for eternity in hellfire and damnation was enough to put me off. The idea that some folk are raised to believe that buggering children is acceptable is beyond belief, but it shouldn't detract from the horrors committed by suposed 'non-cults'

[revelarts]

People have believed in the Creator after worse Chloe.
He's God for real so he's got a bit of an advantage.

Give examples please, so besides a cult that practices incest and sex with children, all i can think of as worse is a cult worshipping satanism and murder, so whats worse to you?

that was clumsy and wrong of me to say that and to say "worse". I'm sorry.

I probably should have said that, sadly many children have been raise in other situations that have felt as bad.

it's horrible to think of such things
But Children born into brothels and made child prostitutes comes to mind. Some have become Christians and found there way out. I've seen reports from Calcutta India and the Philippines .
I've read of a Children's home in Europe where there was a dungeon unearthed after 30 years. I think of Orphans in Mexico city living on a garbage dump. Aids orphans in Africa living on the streets. Born into Satanic Cults, as you mentioned, some with murder rituals. Jewish Holocaust children, Slave children of the past and now.
But even from all of that some have found God.

For example in Calcutta Pastor Mark Buntain and Mother Teresa help bring some relief there and some believed and joined their work.

http://www.watoto.com/about-us/the-watoto-story
Aids, Uganda orphans

http://www.unshackled.org/listen_home.html
old radio style true stories Drugs, crime, occult, atheism , success, war and poverty to God.

I'm Sorry for sounding insensitive before Chloe.

[pete311]

I think everyone who registered on this site had joined a cult. Jim is the leader.

[chloe]

I think everyone who registered on this site had joined a cult. Jim is the leader.


Where is Jim our leader anyway.....:rolleyes:...I feel so lost without him

[Trinity]

I was evaluated for a psychology class I took way back when ... and I'm not a good candidate for a cult. I'm not a good follower, not a good "groupthink" person, and my intuition is too high.

I'll second that!

[Palin Rider]

I'd start my own cult! :happy0203:

[KarlMarx]

There isn't an entry for the beer and pizza cult! :)

[Abbey Marie]

I think everyone who registered on this site had joined a cult. Jim is the leader.

Jim's cult wouldn't be called Debate Policy.
It would be called Boobology, or perhaps The Boobie Temple

[Kathianne]

Jim's cult wouldn't be called Debate Policy.
It would be called Boobology, or perhaps The Boobie Temple

Mine would be the house of the cabana boys! LOL!

[Little-Acorn]

Scientology
Hare Krishna
Unification Church
Children Of God
Heavens Gate
The Solar Temple
The Peoples Temple
Raelism
Ho No Hana
Creativity Movement

You left out "Liberalism". The biggest (and in some ways the wackiest) of them all.

[Kathianne]

You left out "Liberalism". The biggest (and in some ways the wackiest) of them all.

which is what my sig is about, a point over the head of palin rider!

[Palin Rider]

which is what my sig is about, a point over the head of palin rider!

If you have to explain your sig, it's automatically a moot point.

[Kathianne]

If you have to explain your sig, it's automatically a moot point.

Says the troll with little if anything to add.

[Palin Rider]

Says the troll with little if anything to add.

So you agree with me. That's a nice change; keep it up. :thumb:

[Abbey Marie]

Mine would be the house of the cabana boys! LOL!

:laugh:

[eighballsidepocket]

I'll take "none of the above" as I am a Born-Again Christian.. I.E. Biblical Christian.

I do agree that the poll choices are cults, and because of that choosing any of them would be preferring a manmade belief system(most likely ultimately authored by Satan himself) over the one that I embrace and in turn "have been embraced" by God the Father through faith in Jesus Christ, Messiah, Prince of Peace, Savior, Lord of all, the Glory and very essence of the Father in Heaven.

For the true Christian any choice other than embracing Christ's forgiveness and receiving His eternal life/salvation is moot. :)

[Palin Rider]

Biblical Christianity is undeniably a manmade belief system.

[PostmodernProphet]

I guess I would go the hare krishna route:laugh2:

you like airports?.....

[PostmodernProphet]

Biblical Christianity is undeniably a manmade belief system.

why on earth would you consider it undeniable......I would deny that in a heartbeat......

[NightTrain]

Biblical Christianity is undeniably a manmade belief system.

http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss293/NightTrain70/statler-and-waldorf1.jpg

[Palin Rider]

why on earth would you consider it undeniable......I would deny that in a heartbeat......

Why? One word. Nicene.