Which modern cult is most dangerous?

[Banold]

I think these groups are the largest religious movements, which are also considered cults by many governments, and I'd like to know which one you find most dangerous, if at all.

To a degree, all these groups have at least some claim to legitimacy and indeed many loyal followers. But are they dangerous, and to what capacity? Is their threat to society covert or open? Blatant or not so obvious?

Have you ever been involved with any of these cults? Or have you protested against one or more of them?

Ever spoken or had extensive dealings (business, school, friends, relatives) with people who belong to these religions? Were they reasonable and easy to deal with or out of touch with reality and loony?

When you buy into something that seems to explain everything, you can soon be coaxed into doing almost anything.
—Marc Sageman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamenta ... Day_Saints
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_scientology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soka_Gakkai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raelism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskcon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science

[Wilgrove]

I'd have to go with Scientology. Scientology has been linked to some questionable deaths.

Link 1

The most famous one of course is The Death of Lisa McPherson

[Vectrova]

All of them are cults, but only Scientology is also a pyramid scheme that infiltrated the IRS and other government agencies.

[Lackadaisical2]

Atheism.

It threatens national unity.

[Wilgrove]

All of them are cults, but only Scientology is also a pyramid scheme that infiltrated the IRS and other government agencies.

Never prank phone call a Scientology office, they will trace your number. I know from personal experience.

[Panzerjaeger]

All of them are cults, but only Scientology is also a pyramid scheme that infiltrated the IRS and other government agencies.

Never prank phone call a Scientology office, they will trace your number. I know from personal experience.

Damn it why did you have to tell me this now I have to do it. It is like having a giant shiny button with a sign that says, "Don't Touch!" right beside it.

[Wilgrove]

Never prank phone call a Scientology office, they will trace your number. I know from personal experience.

Damn it why did you have to tell me this now I have to do it. It is like having a giant shiny button with a sign that says, "Don't Touch!" right beside it.

If you do it, can you record the converstation and put it online for us to hear?

[Saurisisia]

Scientology.

[New Federation China]

It would be narrow to say Islam. Specifically the Twelver Sect of Islam though...Those bastards are mental; hands down blooming raging insane. Death Cult dedicated to bringing about the end of the world through violence. Obviously the most dangerous.

[Vitaphone Racing]

Hillsong and any other gospel crap.

[Banold]

Hillsong and any other gospel crap.

What's wrong with Hillsong? What makes them a cult or even dangerous?

They're pentecoastal according to wiki, and while that group maybe a bit colorful at times, other then speaking in tongues, how is that particular church dangerous from any other in Australia?

Oh, and the Gospel isn't crap my friend. I get that it's a matter of opinion, but I'd like to talk about dangerous religious movements or cults. There's nothing dangerous about the Gospel of the New Testament.

[N1SM0]

Hillsong and any other gospel crap.

What's wrong with Hillsong? What makes them a cult or even dangerous?

They're pentecoastal according to wiki, and while that group maybe a bit colorful at times, other then speaking in tongues, how is that particular church dangerous from any other in Australia?

Oh, and the Gospel isn't crap my friend. I get that it's a matter of opinion, but I'd like to talk about dangerous religious movements or cults. There's nothing dangerous about the Gospel of the New Testament.

Sorry, but I cannot respect any church which asks people to pay a certain percentage of their income to be allowed to attend. That, my friend, is not a church but instead a corporation.

[Panzerjaeger]

Damn it why did you have to tell me this now I have to do it. It is like having a giant shiny button with a sign that says, "Don't Touch!" right beside it.

If you do it, can you record the converstation and put it online for us to hear?

Consider it a deal.

[Angry lepearchauns]

Tea Party

[Mongolian Khanate]

Scientology, all the way.

These guys should be arrested

[Wilgrove]

If you do it, can you record the converstation and put it online for us to hear?

Consider it a deal.

Yay!

[Wikipedia and Universe]

I'd have to go with Scientology. Scientology has been linked to some questionable deaths.

Link 1

The most famous one of course is The Death of Lisa McPherson

That. Is. Fucked. Up.

I'm gonna email that to some people I know.

[Vectrova]

All of them are cults, but only Scientology is also a pyramid scheme that infiltrated the IRS and other government agencies.

Never prank phone call a Scientology office, they will trace your number. I know from personal experience.

That's why I crank call from public pay phones.

[Banold]

Sorry, but I cannot respect any church which asks people to pay a certain percentage of their income to be allowed to attend. That, my friend, is not a church but instead a corporation.

Gotchya, I agree. I attend an independent Baptist Church, and it doesn't coerce the faithful into tithing or donating ever. People give what they can when they want. The way it should be.

As I understand it, doesn't the mainstream LDS church require a 10% tithe from all income earning members?

[Mongolian Khanate]

Never prank phone call a Scientology office, they will trace your number. I know from personal experience.

That's why I crank call from public pay phones.

They can trace my ass. These pieces of shit should be mincemeat

[Cameroi]

i'd say it's a toss up between christianity and islam. all of the dangerous charicteristics of a 'cult' are present there. and a thousand years or two is still "modern" in the context of the tens of thousands of years of the human species, the millions of life, some of it possibly sentient or near sentient, and so on.

and most, because most popular and at the same time most denied of their cultish enslavement of emotional attachment.

now i'm not saying anything negative about either of their revealers, nor the one same god who chose them (along with all the others, like buddah, krshna, et al) to be channeled by,
but rather, what their modern day so called followers have to a very large degree, turned their revelations into.

[Delator]

Which modern cult is most dangerous?

The Republican Party.

[The Parkus Empire]

Pound for pound, Scientology, since its official church is a nasty SOB and all ST's support it. Not all Catholics support the Catholic Church, so that gets a by, as do most of the other cults due to similar diversity.

[Bramborska]

Obamania, or known by its clinical definition Obamaphilia.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Scientology. Closely followed by the Raelians, IMO.