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blog is on World Wide Cults.
In
Modern English, a cult is a social group that is defined by its
unusual religious, spiritual or philosophical beliefs, or by its
common interest in particular personality, object or goal. This sense
of the term is controversial and it has divergent definitions both in
popular culture and academia and it has also been ongoing source of
contention among scholars across several fields of study it is
usually considered pejorative.
An
older sense of the word Cult is a set of religious devotional
practices that are conventional within their culture, are related to
a particular figure, and are often associated with a particular
place. References to the “cult” of a particular catholic saint,
or the imperial cult of ancient Rome, for example, use this sense of
the word.
- Cult
Wiki page.
MANSON
FAMILY
The
Manson Family was a desert commune and cult active in California in
the late 1960s and early 1970s which was led by Charles Manson. The
group consisted of approximately 100 of his followers who lived an
unconventional lifestyle with habitual use of hallucinogenic drugs
such as LSD, most of the group were young women form middle-class
backgrounds, many of whom were radicalized by Manson's teachings and
drawn by Hippie culture and communal living.
They
gained international attention after the murder of Sharon Tate and
four others on August 9, 1969. the murders were committed by Tex
Watson, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel. Linda Kasabian was also
present but did not take part. Group members were also responsible
for a number of other murders, assaults, petty crimes and thefts.
- Manson Family Wiki
PEOPLE'S
TEMPLE
The
Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, commonly shortened to
Peoples Temple, was an American new religious movement founded in
1955 by Jim Jones in Indianapolis, Indiana. Jones used the People's
temple to spread a message that combined elements of Christianity
with Communist and Socialist Ideology, with an emphasis on racial
equality.
The
Temple is best known for the events of November 18, 1978, in Guyana,
when 909 people died in a mass murder at its remote settlement, named
“Jonestown”, as well as the murders of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan
and members of his visiting delegation at the nearby Port Kaituma
airstrip. The incident at Jonestown resulted in the greatest single
loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act prior to the
September 11th terrorist attacks.
- Peoples
Temple wiki page
HEAVENS
GATE
Heaven's
Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian cult based near San
Diego, California. It was founded in 1974 and led by co-creators
Marshall Applewhite (1931-1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927-1985). On
March 26, 1997, members of the San Diego Country Sheriff's Department
discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group in San Diego suburb
of Rancho Santa Fe. They had participated in a mass suicide, a
coordinated series of ritual suicides, in order to reach what they
believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following following Comet
Hale-Bopp.
- Heaven's Gate wiki page
The above
cults mentioned are three of the most famous across the world,
obviously for various reasons. All three started out for benign
reasons but ended up in disaster and loss of life proving that cults
can be pretty dangerous.
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