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Even as the pages were being set up, the surviving disciples were distancing themselves from the man who goes by the names Rio D'Angelo and Richard Ford, the cult member who discovered the bodies and alerted the police. They claim that Rio has taken over the cult's original Website and is out for profit, having signed a movie deal with ABC; he has ceased communicating with them. The dissension is likely to reverberate. While Applewhite led 38 followers into apparently blissful self-annihilation, his 20-year odyssey may have drawn a total of 200 to 500 adherents, many...
...mean to incite people to kill us. If they saw you carrying guns, then that would give them cause to bear arms against us. And it might come to that. It might take that to get us killed." With the death from cancer of Nettles in 1985, the cult moved away from fulfilling Revelation. But perhaps not entirely. Last week police discovered a small arms cache at a storage facility near a former headquarters in Escondido, California...
...leader of the band began the evening by addressing the crowd of some 50 students and community members. After describing his troubled past, which included drug addiction and involvement in a Satanic cult, he proceeded to explain that his life had undergone a dramatic "change for the better," when, as a last resort, he decided to "ask God to come into his life...
...also searching for some "meaningful" summer internship--applying to firms and agencies with five unpronounceable names and of which they know little about except for the fact that The Princeton Review has named it one of its Top 100 Internships--it's hard to avoid becoming drawn into this cult...
...Every religion," as the great scholar of the world's belief systems, Huston Smith, points out, "mixes universal principles with local peculiarities," and the latter, he goes on, "are not easy for outsiders to comprehend." Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church was more often described as a "cult" before it took over 375 organizations (and Jim Jones' People's Temple is sometimes considered a church that devolved into a cult). As Scientologists do battle with the government in Germany, they could point out that religion apparently comes from the Latin religare, or "to bind"; cult comes from the Latin cultus...