Reading Time: 3 minutes What possesses some people, to make them believe crackpot gurus so intensely that they’re willing to kill rivals, strangers, their own children and themselves?
Sects and Cults
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The Walls Come Tumbling Down
Reading Time: 6 minutes Trump’s brand of politics – ultra-nationalism, grievance-stoking white supremacy, and authoritarian strongman worship – has eaten Christianity from the inside out.
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Babbling in “Tongues”
Reading Time: 3 minutes By James A. Haught President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court may rouse debate over the dubious Christian practice of “speaking in tongues,” or glossalalia. She’s a fervent Catholic who belongs to a charismatic fringe clique, People of Praise, whose members reportedly babble “the tongues” like all Pentecostals. Various researchers say […]
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When Religions Die
Reading Time: 5 minutes We may soon see another venerable faith go extinct before our eyes.
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The Strange and Curious Cult of QAnon
Reading Time: 6 minutes Conspiracy believers have concocted a self-contained alternate reality where Trump is a hero and everything is going according to plan.
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How Religion Spreads COVID-19
Reading Time: 7 minutes The sects that refuse to acknowledge any rules but their own, or that worship Donald Trump and swallow his propaganda about the virus not being a threat, are prolonging and worsening the pandemic.
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Abuse Among the Amish
Reading Time: 5 minutes Like other isolated-by-choice sects, the Amish have tried to shut the world out, and that secrecy has allowed awful evil to flourish among them.
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The Prison of Belief
Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s no way for logic to prove that one religion is fake while another is true.
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Trump as Jim Jones?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A hint of cultism hovers in Donald Trump’s seizure of the Republican Party base and its blind devotion to him
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Strange and Curious Sects: EnlightenNext
Reading Time: 5 minutes The strange and curious sect of EnlightenNext, a cult that peacefully dissolved when its founder realized he had become a monster.