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Cults: Christian Scientists
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This has been called the "standard reference work" on Cults. It is not an exhaustive resource, but it does discuss in considerable detail the largest cults like the Jehovah's Witnesses, The Mormons, Scientology and many others. It contains several chapters on Cultism in general. The latest expanded and revised version is well documented and gives an extensive Bibliography. It is a must have book for Christians interested in understanding or reaching out to the cults.
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Well, cults are not defined by their *belief system*. For example, the Jesus Freaks have the same belief system as an ordinary Christian follower of Lutheran Church. So it is not their beliefs. In fact, all the major belief systems have been a cult at the beginning.
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Religion News Blog (RNB), published by Apologetics Index, highlights news items and other resources on world religions, cults, religious sects, alternative religions and related issues. RNB's non-profit news clipping service is used by - among others - Christian apologists, countercult professionals, anticult organizations, cult experts, teachers, religion professionals, reporters and other researchers.
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On the one hand, Christians are not immune to seeing those they love drawn into cults. There is no pain like that of a relationship breaking up and slipping through your fingers like dry sand. On the other hand, since its inception 2000 years ago, Christianity has repeatedly been charged with being a cult.
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James T. Richardson contends that there are a large number of cults, and a tendency among scholars to make unjustified generalizations about them based on a select sample of observations of life in such groups or the testimonies of (ex-)members. According to Richardson, this tendency is responsible for the widely divergent opinions about cults among scholars and social scientists.[77]
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Most religious cults do teach what the Christian church would declare to be heresy but some do not. Some cults teach the basics of the Christian faith but have behavioural patterns that are abusive, controlling and cultic.
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