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4. By studying why other people have joined cults

Reply to el_bryanto (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:03 PM

Feb 2015

I'm not saying it's a simple equation. People join cults for many different reasons. But it seems to me that everyone from the President on down are offering reasons as to why their recruiting is so successful and how to combat it. And I'm guessing that your average cult member didn't join because they couldn't find a job.

I bring this up because I haven't heard anyone discuss this from a perspective that ISIS has all of the hallmarks of a cult.

I am inviting discussion into this concept.

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Call radical Islam what it is...a Religious Death Cult [View all] B2G Feb 2015 OP

How exactly will seeing it as a cult help us combat it? nt el_bryanto Feb 2015 #1

By studying why other people have joined cults B2G Feb 2015 #4

So you want to discuss what ISIS offers people that they can't get elsewhere el_bryanto Feb 2015 #6

^ dissentient Feb 2015 #2

IBTL nt MrScorpio Feb 2015 #3

Why would this thread be locked? B2G Feb 2015 #5

It shouldn't be glasshouses Feb 2015 #10

I don't know why it would be locked - the OP make it clear that he is talking about ISIS el_bryanto Feb 2015 #7

Obama called radical Islam and ISIS evil and it needs to be destroyed glasshouses Feb 2015 #11

. Iggo Feb 2015 #15

O hai shenmue Feb 2015 #8

I guess you could say every religion is a cult glasshouses Feb 2015 #9

Radical capitalism = death cult: death of the planet, death of populations, death of cultures, ND-Dem Feb 2015 #12

And radical Christianity, for that matter. Orsino Feb 2015 #21

Why? B2G Feb 2015 #22

Pretending that "radical Islam" is monolithic is wrong. Orsino Feb 2015 #23

Like ISIS? B2G Feb 2015 #24

ISIS =/ radical Islam. n/t Orsino Feb 2015 #25

How is radical Islam different? nt B2G Feb 2015 #27

Radical Islam is not monolithic. Orsino Feb 2015 #29

Isis is a death cult. CJCRANE Feb 2015 #13

So is Scientology B2G Feb 2015 #14

Please link me leftynyc Feb 2015 #17

They are simply a danger to their own members B2G Feb 2015 #18

But a death cult? leftynyc Feb 2015 #30

I was referring to their finances, but B2G Feb 2015 #32

Yes...calling it a religious death cult will certainly make our bombs more effective Cali_Democrat Feb 2015 #16

Silly? B2G Feb 2015 #19

Right wingers are too focused on the words used to describe these terrorists. Cali_Democrat Feb 2015 #26

And the left isn't? B2G Feb 2015 #28

Huh? WTF are you talking about? Cali_Democrat Feb 2015 #31

I don't think ISIS members believe they will lose, hence not a death cult per se. stevenleser Feb 2015 #20

you are right samsingh Feb 2015 #33