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CHURCH OF GOD DASMARINAS WORLD MISSION PHILIPPINES DISCIPLESHIP DEPARTMENT RESEARCHED AND EDITED FOR COG DASMARINAS BY RONALD ACAMILING 2010 2 INTRODUCTION xF0A7 DEFENDING THE FAITH IN I. 1)W.Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults (Cambridge 1987) 18 RELS 225: Cults and New Religious Movements. Agenda. Attendance. Exam description. Review. Essay. Course Evaluations. The Midterm Test. The midterm test will . include . multiple choice, . passage identification, definitions. By Steven Tobey . What is a cult?. a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or . dangerous are you kidding me?. Stuart W. Twemlow,MD Frank C. Sacco, Ph.D. George Hough Ph.D * Modified from a chapter entitled “Reflections on the Making of a Terrorist Page 1 of 1 2.Theotherwayistostimulatethesuperstitionsthatmanypeoplealreadycarryinthemselves.Infact,onlyafewunsavedpeoplereallybelievethatwhattheyseeinthisworldisallthereis.Insteadtheyassumethattheremustbesomesup Using the tools of Social Psychology to Manipulate. The Manson Family. Lead by Charles Manson. Lived on a Ranch together. Charles Manson believed he was interpreting special meanings from The Beatles; The White Album.. Brainwashing. Cults. What distinguishes a harmful cult from a relatively harmless new religious movement or self-help group?. 1) Characteristics of Cults:. A captivating and authoritarian leader who claims to have all the answers to life.. II. A LOOK AT FUTURE PREDICTION (FAMILIAR SPIRITS) 1. Divination: The Ouija board, palmistry, Tarot cards. - Babylonians looked at animal livers. - Romans watched birds, lightening, looked at What is a Cult. Every cult can be defined as a group having all of the following five characteristics:. 1. It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members. 2. It forms an elitist totalitarian society.. “Priapus”, . House of The Vetti. , Find Target, . http://reference.findtarget.com/search/Priapus/. . Household Gods. Kamm. A, “Vesta”, . Worship in the Home. , The Romans, . http://www.the-romans.co.uk/home.htm. What is the difference between:. A church. A denomination. A sect. A cult. Roy Wallis (1976) - . divided organizations into respectable (uniquely legitimate or pluralistically legitimate) or deviant. Some Terms…. Divination - foretelling the future by a system . e.g. palm-reading, water-reading, tea-leaves, I-. Ching. etc. Soothsaying – much the same as divination but without a system, false prophetic reading of omens, portents and signs. Religions. Difference between cults and religions. Deceit in recruitment. Totalitarian. Destroys the family unit. Isolates its members. Keeps non-believers out. Leader and follower consider the Leader to be above reproach.