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Also in Rich’s article, he gives a lot of examples of what he thinks are cults that have done something violent and he assumes that all of the New Religious Movements will become so violent that whoever goes into these Movements will be killed. “God told Taylor that the best way to overthrow the Mormon church was to adopt Brazilian orphans and train them to be assassins.” (Rich, 40) He wanted to use this group as an example of something that he thinks all New Religious Movement does this type of thing and that all of these New Religious Movements are all about violence and taking their money and their life and then treating them like objects. However, that is just what some of the New Religious Movements may do but not really do. It’s not what these New Religious Movements talk about and it’s not their intentions with what they want to do with their followers. In any New Religious Movements, all of them just mainly want their followers to be about peace and love and not want to hurt anybody. Ellwood and Partin have found that these New Religious Movements have a good purpose in their...

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