Cults...

by Camay05 2 Replies latest jw friends

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  Camay05

  This website is very interesting, a friend of mine sent this information to me http://www.factnet.org/coergrps.htm
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  SlayerLayer

  Wow, Amway listed as a cult too.
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  Thirdson

  "Cult" is a very subjective term and I came across thoughts on cults twice yesterday. 3 thoughts now with this post:

  1. Yesterday I attended a management course on Civil Treatment. While discussing religious discrimination we had to examine and comment on a sample memo sent to a manager about an employee requestimg time-off for a special religious meeting with his new found religion. In the memo the supervisor calls the employee's religion a "crazy cult or something". -- Oops you can't discriminate just because you think someone's religion is a cult.

  2. Yesterday the Dalai Lama addressed the Minnesota legislature. One representative (Arlon Linder) stayed away because "Lindner said that the Dalai Lama is a cult leader and that Buddhism is incompatible with Judeo-Christian tradition."Minneapolis Star Tribune -- May 9, 2001. -- Buddhism is one of the world's major religions. If they are a cult what about Christianity?

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  Wow, Amway listed as a cult too.

  
  Afraid so. There is a "church" near where I live. It is in fact the world headquarters of the "Church of the Inner Selfness" otherwise known as Eckankar. Mrs Thirdson and I looked them up on the Internet. Lots of "Unfavorable" sites. The best was titled "My Life in Eckankar and Amway". Not the first time I have seen Amway linked to fringe religions. I think it has to do with the method of selling to friends and family and close knit religious communities are great for profits.

  Thirdson

  'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing'