by Paul Cooke | Apr 26, 2022 | What is a Cult?
Defining the Cult The Oxford English Dictionary offers this definition of the cult: “a small group of people who have extreme religious beliefs and who are not part of any established religion.” They illustrate the term with this example: “Their son ran away from home...
by Paul Cooke | Apr 26, 2022 | What is a Cult?
The Cult Member But what of the other key ingredient constituting a cult—the followers? P.T. Barnum is supposedly the source of the phrase, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” and though the saying is probably not originally his, the notion that there are...
by Paul Cooke | Mar 3, 2022 | What is a Cult?
On Being Prepared to Resist the Allure of the Cult Now one key, and perhaps the main one to defining the cult and its deceptive leader, is to know this person and his group never present themselves with a sign out front reading, “You are now entering a cult.” There...
