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People who join cults are often dissatisfied with the world or unsure of their place in it. Cults offer answers, asserting that the world is corrupt and unreliable. It can be difficult to leave a cult. The world outside can seem frightening and evil.
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EVEN apparently sane people occasionally fall victim to barmy cults. But sometimes whole branches of science have taken leave of their senses, with alarming results. For much of the 18th century, for instance, chemistry was in thrall to the claims of a German doctor named Georg Stahl, who insisted that combustion was made possible by a substance called phlogiston which gradually disappeared as things were burnt. Yet it is the life sciences, for some reason, that seem to be especially prone to being blown off course by bizarre ideas: spontaneous generation, with mice emerging from neglected heaps of cereal; Lamarckism and its odd notion that characteristics acquired by one generation could be inherited by the next, and Freudian psychoanalysis in our own era. But what are scientists to do when confronted with a choice of either going along with some barking mad idea, or of facing dismissal, prison or even execution? Such was the appalling dilemma that faced scientists in the Soviet Union under Stalin.
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The prevailing doctrine of past and present cults is the gnostic or secret knowledge to attain salvation or perfection that they alone possess. This is evident in early Gnosticism as well as in the nineteenth-century cults such as Mormonism, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, spiritualism, theosophy and many more. Several of these cults offer "special welfare" services to promote good will and enable them to further their propaganda. Examples of such activities include the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Battle Creek Sanitorium of the Seventh Day Adventists.[4] Through these philanthropic activities they appear to be harmless to people in order to promote their religious propaganda.
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Recovery from cults takes time and patience, but can be successful. People need to find their true selves again and regain self-awareness, self-worth, self-confidence and a sense of perspective. Despite everything they experience, research shows that their true self remains suppressed, but existent, under the pseudo-personality superimposed by the cult. Healing and growth needs combined efforts and professional help. Sufferers may need to enlist the support of the following:
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Cult apologists are people who defend the teachings and/or actions of one or more movements which many Christian and non-Christian apologists, anti-cult and counter-cult professionals consider to be cults (theologically and/or sociologically). Some are members of the movements they defend. Others claim to promote religious pluralism or religious freedom. Yet others appear to be opportunists interested in financial benefits.
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