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ignaz@payne.mps.ohio-state.edu (de Yeti) wrote:
> kspaink@xs4all.nl (Karin Spaink) wrote:

> > Scientologie is geen religie, maar een sekte. [...]

> Wat is het verschil tussen religie en sekte behalve aantal schaapjes?

Laat ik die vraag nu verwacht hebben. Hun wereldbeeld, hun
geslotenheid, hun geheimzinnigheid en hun venijn.
	Een quote van een sekte-deskundologe, Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer:
 
	"A cult is a group started by a person who claims they have a
special mission and secret knowledge -- either old secret knowledge
that they have discovered, or new knowledge that they will share with
people who will turn over their decision-making to this self-appointed
leader. The important features of a cult, beyond that it is started by
an individual as we have just described, that individual then directs
the veneration of the followers towards himself, not toward God or
abstract principals. The next feature of a cult is that it is elitist.
The leader convinces the followers that if they obey him, they will be
the elite who will at some point take over the world. Cults are not
all religious in nature. Cults can be formed around any theme such as
politics, psychology, UFOs, or any other content.
	Additionally, cults have a double set of ethics. That is, one must
tell the truth to members, but it is alright to deceive and lie to
non-members because of the elitist outlook of the group.
    Cults are also totalitarian and totalistic. That means all the
power is centered in the leader, and usually controls are exerted over
each area of life."


groet,
     Karin Spaink

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