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From: sbuckley@fraser.sfu.ca (Stephen Buckley)
Subject: Re: cults (who keeps them going ?)
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 19:18:48 GMT
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muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah) writes:

>In article <sbuckley.735337212@sfu.ca> sbuckley@fraser.sfu.ca (Stephen Buckley) writes:
>>>... bad thoughts these.
>>
>>  well it depends on whether you take the literal dictionary definition of
>>cult and say all faiths are cults, or if you take a more social-context
>>view of "cult which allows you to recognize mainstream religions as 
>>socially-acceptable and cults as groups that involve techniques of brain-
>>washing and all the other characteristics that define oppressive [probly not
>>the *best* word] cult behaviour.

>Yeah, but implicitly the social-context view provides a justification
>for the dictionary definition of a cult; those who follow the mainstream
>pretend while those in cults act based on the very same impulses.  Now
>who is to be taken seriously ? ;-).

  i'm confused.  could you restate what yer saying in "those who follow
the mainstream pretend" and "act based on the very same impulses"?


