Cults: Dangerous Devotion 2/10
Feb 3rd, 2010 by MrCult
Is it brain-washing or like-mindedness? What attracts followers to cults and what holds them? This special feature-length documentary infiltrates the hidden world of these secretive groups. Journey behind closed doors into a secret world where faith and devotion lead to desperation and despair. From the bizarre prophecies of Charles Manson to the desperate paranoia of Jim Jones, cult leaders draw followers into worlds of power, paranoia, and death. Why do people join? Why do they stay? And how can we stop them? Through interviews with world-renowned scholars and the survivors of cultic tragedy, DANGEROUS DEVOTION unmasks the mystery of cults.
damn those people are just fucked up
Lumping all believers in the same group is like saying all black men are criminals or all Irishmen are alcoholics. Its absurd and illogical.
its thanks to true christianity that women are free in the USA. Women are subservient in almost all non christian nations. Just because someone claims to be christian doesn’t make them so. Going to a church or building and listening to someone speak doesn’t make someone christian. True christianity is taking care of the poor, feeding the hungry, loving the unloved. The people that commit atrocities in the name of christianity are a disgrace. You can’t lump all christians in the same group.
It’s very entertaining to watch a conservatively biased documentary on other VERY MUCH conservative cults.Calling jim jones a “liberal progressive like mao tse tung” is beyond hypocrisy.
*sigh* My point is that EVERYONE is capable of extreme evil not JUST religious people. Surely you won’t deny that these people were atheists and also committed extreme atrocities
I’m not saying that religious people aren’t capable of extreme evil, I’m saying that ANYONE and EVERYONE is capable of extreme evil. It’s human nature. And If you believe that any of these people were adhering to true christian principles when they were doing these atrocities, you really need to brush up on your studies
WTF? Look at all the people Christianity has killed through witch-hunts, crusades thousands of years of women-oppression, and just look at this documentary – at all the people dying in the name of religion – so your disgusting little argument of atheists as a group being evil is pathetic!!
argh, I am not doing well. lol Kim Jong il.
There you go. ok
I got it this time. lol
no, King JOng not Kim Jung. and I spelled his last name wrong. It’s il not ill. =P sorry
I thought Kim Jung Ill was just misunderstood.
hmm, I would have to disagree. Everyone, no matter who, is capable of great evil. Just look at some famous sadist atheists. Stalin. Lenin. Mao Tse Tung.(may be wrong spelling). Kim Jong Ill
You know, people just have problems.
Jonestown was horrifying.
your missing something at first there was atheism then something break-off it, that was the very first cult what ever it my have been. lol the point of it all is i guess humans cant get there shit together.
These polygamists are a christian cult. First, christianism was a cult. Then mormonism was a break-off cult from christianism. Then these polygamists became a break-off cult from mormonism. With each cult layer, the beliefs become more and more perverted. Stick to atheism and you’ll be fine. Probably everyone in the world has spontaneously considered atheism at one time or another, regardless of their religion. It’s natural because it’s true.
how do we know these cult leaders really dont believe in what they are teaching? they might really believe what they are preaching.
which religious sect was this
i used to go to a church but when they told me i shouldnt have feelings for a guy there but for some other guy they chose for me it sent chills thru my whole body. i never returned. they did the same to my friend and because she was like me believing in right and wrong, she left and eventually married the japanese guy and is living in japan happy.