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Cults
A cult is a religion with
no political power.
Thomas Wolfe
The difference between a cult
and an established religion is
sometimes about one generation.
Scott McLemee
If you want to understand how cults use
the same brain reward pathway that drugs
activate, go here to look at my paper on
the subject. I am working on a new one
that ties memes and evolutionary
psychology into the origin of war.
Keith Henson
I wonder if other dogs
think poodles are members
of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner
When theology erodes and organization
crumbles, when the institutional framework of
religion begins to break up, the search for a
direct experience which people can feel to
be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell
The less reasonable a cult is, the more
men seek to establish it by force
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The only difference between a
cult and a religion is the amount
of real estate they own
Frank Zappa
Humans evolved in tribes and our reward
circuits are still set up to reward behaviors
that aided reproductive success in tribes. Cults
tap into this reward mechanism, but so does
every other rewarding activity from
local sports clubs to the Nobel Prize.
Keith Henson
The fact that [someone is] an unattractive
character with followers holding rather odd
theology, does not mean that they have no
civil, legal or constitutional rights. Calling
such a group a "cult" should not
deprive them of their rights.
Alex McColl
