Do Cults Affect People Essay

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My investigation is to investigate how do cults affect people. This investigation is related to the topic ‘Belief systems’. In this report, I will talk about what is cult, what are the features and elements that cults have, and how cults affect people from a personal perspective, national perspective, and global perspective.

Believing in something, in someone, it is in each person's freedom to choose what they have faith in. A cult is usually referred to as a social group defined by its religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or its common interest in a particular personality, object or goal. After in-depth research, the French Intelligence Agency have stated that from the perspective of sociology, the definition of cult should be a group that use of science, religion, or cure for cover, to cover up the spirit of power, control, and exploitation of believers, to eventually get its believers unconditional loyalty and obedience, and make it give up social common values (including ethics, science, citizens, education, etc). Thus, the group that believes …show more content…

They found out that cults have proprietary features. Cults all have a ‘spiritual leader’ who is the leader of the cult and all of the believers must obey. The “spiritual leader” is often still alive, and is the cult founder. The founder is either other religious leader's reincarnation, or create their own sect. For example, ‘Scientology’ using the reputation of Christianity, by saying it’s the order from Jesus and control all the action of the believers. There were some phenomena such as an earthquake, the founder will say Jesus is mad, and mind controls the believers to do cult activities. The founder was able to explain all phenomena. By using their own explanation which for people that are not faith in will know it is fake. However for people who are really into it, will believe in since the founder is their “spiritual

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