Category Archives: Cults

Sweatbox Lunacy

By Daniel Florien on October 19, 2009 in Cults, Current Events.

When people follow “spiritual advisors,” usually they just waste time and lose money & friends. But occasionally they lose their lives. A third person has died from following James Arthur Ray at a retreat for his “Spiritual Warrior” program:
A woman hospitalized after spending time in a sauna-like “sweatbox” has died, bringing the total fatalities to [...]

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More Than You Wanted To Know About Fred Phelps

By vorjack on September 28, 2009 in Cults, Current Events, Fundamentalism.

by VorJack
Over at the blog Making Light, a short post on how to counteract a protest from the Phelps clan morphed into a clearing house of information about the patriarch himself, Fred Phelps.
You can start with the About Fred Phelps page of the website “God Hates Fred Phelps.” It includes the shocking fact that [...]

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Frank Schaeffer on Rachel Maddow

By Daniel Florien on September 18, 2009 in Christianity, Cults, Current Events, Videos.

Rachel Maddow and Frank Schaeffer discuss a poll where 1 in 3 New Jersey conservatives think Obama might be the anti-Christ:

The whole anti-Christ thing has always struck me as absurd. Christians have labeled so many leaders throughout history as “the anti-Christ” that you’d think they would have learned to stop doing that — they always [...]

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Losing My Faith: David and the Sai Baba Conglomerate

By guest on July 16, 2009 in Articles, Cults, God, Psychology.

by Ernst Hayim
Early in 2005, I found out that god was in fact, a pedophile. Curiously, this discovery occurred through an expose on the Internet by a British pianist I had met in India several years ago.
David was a staunch devotee then and we had both belonged to the Sai Baba cult. He had grown [...]

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Scientology: The Truth Rundown

By Daniel Florien on June 24, 2009 in Cults, Current Events.

The St. Petersburg Times is running a special report on Scientology and purported violence that goes on inside:
Physical violence permeated Scientology’s international management team. Miscavige set the tone, routinely attacking his lieutenants. Rinder says the leader attacked him some 50 times.
Rathbun, Rinder and De Vocht admit that they, too, attacked their colleagues, to demonstrate loyalty [...]

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Ex-Moonie Diane Benscoter: How Cults Think

By Daniel Florien on June 22, 2009 in Cults, Religion, Videos.

Ex-Moonie Diane Benscoter talks about how she got involved with the Moonies for five years, and explains about how cults think:

I think it’s the same mentality with most religions, not just cults.

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I Needed A Job, And Xenu Was Hiring

By guest on June 22, 2009 in Articles, Cults, Drugs, Religion.

by Shéa Bennett

I recently had a job interview for an IT position with the Church of Scientology.
Let me explain. I wasn’t aware of my potential employer going in. The company in the advertisement was Narconon, who bill themselves as “the world’s most successful drug rehab,” and apparently have been in the business of narcotic rehabilitation [...]

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