Cults Part Two: The Trouble with Totalism

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🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

From the Moonies to Scientology to Heaven's Gate, we continue our two-part series on cults, their methods, their abuses, and the stories of some who escaped.

Chris Shelton's Scientology blog: http://mncriticalthinking.com/

A helpful resource. The International Cultic Studies Association

Sansu the Cat: http://sansuthecat.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-lunacy-of-rev-moon-or-why-i-am-not.html?m=1

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.4	Assume nothing.
0:08.3	Branch ball face blasphemy.
0:10.5	Question. Everything.
0:12.3	Find it extremely hard to imagine. Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.0	has been measured as being those who have no belief
0:23.4	or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.3	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.2	I don't know about you, but as I see the sort of hour by hour
0:48.1	trampling upon the Constitution, specifically,
0:51.3	the separation of church and state,
0:53.0	but even beyond that, just a disregard for the framework
0:56.1	of how the United States was founded
0:58.6	and how the Constitution sort of sets things up,
1:01.5	I often feel helpless like, you know, what's happening?
1:04.4	How do we protect the integrity of the system?
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