Word: cults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know of the exact nature of this proposed Bible Study Group, I believe any informed observer of the American-religious scene would be dismayed by its founder's affiliation with the Boston Church of Christ. As a friend of someone who was temporarily "taken in" by this cult-like organization. I have personally witnessed the destructive effects of its "ministry...
Hrnicek says Epps has been postponing recognition of his group out of religious prejudice. According to Hrnicek, some proctors view Boston Church of Christ as a cult...
Some of club's members, including Hrnicek, belong to the Boston Church of Christ, a church some proctors have referred to as a cult, Hrnicek said...
...another's throats. By the fourth or fifth generation, they are turning up with guilt complexes about the family name and about the founder's long-ago crimes of piracy. Some take to drugs, others to environmentalism. Some heir will tithe his trust fund to a cult. An heiress will be arrested in Saks for shoplifting. Some of the cousins will embrace penitential political correctness, the noblesse oblige of overcompensating elites. Everything -- power, glory, wealth, dignity -- will be ground down at last to the merely human and the occasionally scandalous. The family no longer breeds giants, just threadbare eccentrics...
...string of movies featuring Stewart and his Next Generation gang. With Deep Space Nine continuing, and yet another TV series, Star Trek: Voyager, debuting in January, the pump is primed for more TV-to-movie transfers in the future. The mother ship of all TV cult hits seems poised to boldly go where none has gone before: into eternity...