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Originally Posted by jamarquez People who believe Killing people have to be brained Washed for a bit of time to believe such a thing and plus I would not call it a Religion I would call it a cult of some type. |
Well there's the thing, people who are part of an organization that others consider a cult don't think they are in a cult. What we consider a cult, for them, is just another way to see the "truth". Yes I believe they are brainwashed too, but what's to separate a cult from a religion? I think cults are just unpopular religions.
Consider also the time of the witch hunts. "Good Christians" followed the rules of their faith, and if some people did anything that their faith did not condone or could not explain, they were deemed "witches" and burned alive. Did these Christians consider themselves to be in a cult? No of course not, they were in the majority. However these poor souls who, because they knew now to heal with wild herbs or followed their own beliefs rather than the popular religion, were killed "in the name of God".
Naturally times have changed, but people like this still exist believe it or not. Now imagine if these kinds of narrow-minded people were to get in control of an entire country? That's what the Taliban did in the Middle East. And that's why we should do all we can to prevent that from happening here.