Cults’ views and their disagreements with families

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Bahaismiran:

Cults feel they have been tyrannized unfairly. So, they tell the new members” Satan causes for your family and friends to tell irrelevant things about the group; while you will be saved when you are along with the cult. Cult will be a safe place. You must trust it as your new family. We must tolerate hardship and torture sometimes due to reality. (In Christianity, the real Christians believe in torture and harm as the criterion for belief and faith.[1])

     Cults pose the following questions to stabilize our thoughts:

-       What is important: God or school?

-       Don’t you love God at the bottom of your heart?

-       Don’t you believe in us?

-       Do you a person who cares you more than yourself?

-       Just we possess the reality. Don’t you like to be a believer?

     The believers and facts of people are supervised. If the members of group affect family and other groups and people in favor of cult, they will be allowed to have relationships with them. The reason for this control is for the prevention of date influence into the group. Even, in some cases, the group tries to make the information of out of the group notorious. The members of the group aren’t allowed to read the materials which are out of the instructions dictated by the cult or to converse with cult critics or to talk with the members who have turned against the cult. The person’s bonds with ex-friends and family have been broken and his/her connections and relationships are being limited. They must read just the books which have been given to the members by the group. Reading and studying other books –especially those which are against the group views- must be prevented. Consequently, concentrating is on out of group people’s characters not on the definite evidence.

     Most sectarian groups ask the members not to cut their relationships with the previous friends and families. Cutting relationships causes a person to be dependent on the group completely in the identity, cognitive and social fields.[2]

 


[1] www.letusreason .org- common Characteristics of how the cults operate.

[2] Ralph Heibutzki –Warning signs of cults.

 

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