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| | cult - encyclopedia article about cult. |
 | | Cult, NRM and the sociology and psychology of religion | | | They say that the only difference between a cult and a religion Religion —sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system —is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, and the moral codes, practices and institutions associated with such belief. | | | The sociologists Rodney Stark and William S. Bainbridge define in their book "Theory of Religion" and subsequent works cults as "deviant religious organization with novel beliefs and practices", that is as new religious movements that unlike sects have not separated from another religious organization. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Cult
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| | Cult of the Supreme Being |
| | The Supreme Being had few distinguishing characteristics relative to the colorful gods of yesteryear, such as Zeus, Jesus Christ or Shiva. | | | Unfortunately, the Cult lacked virtually every quality that makes a religion last -- history, a preceding religion on which to draw, actual enthusiasm among the religion's members, a ritual structure grounded in some sort of mystical tradition, a charismatic spiritual teacher and a set of clearly drawn beliefs. | | | Nevertheless, Robespierre was rather pleased with himself: "Never has the world which He [the Supreme Being] created offered to Him a spectacle so worthy of His notice," he crowed in a turgid 1794 speech instituting the religion. |
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http://www.rotten.com/library/religion/cult_of_the_supreme_being
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| | Religion & Cult Watch Africa |
| | Despite the universality of belief in a supreme being in Africa regular worship is not generally given to him. | | | A cult in the current usage by believers in mainline religions (even if members of new and miniscule splinter sects) can only be taken as a new and small religion that the labeller disapproves of. | | | But the need or desire to harness the powers of these unseen beings is separate from the belief in, and worship of, the Supreme Being, or God. |
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http://www.secularhumanism.org/ahal/ReligionCult.html
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| | ICJ - Christian And Jewish Responses To ISKCON - John A. Saliba, S.J. |
| | Cults are sometimes judged to be counterfeit spiritualities and spurious religious systems (Enroth et. | | | Anthropologist Willa Appel, while admitting that cults have a long history and may be an evolutionary phase in the development of religions or political movements, still voices a largely disapproving opinion of the whole cultic phenomenon. | | | The world's religions are a concrete witness of the many ways human beings can respond to God. |
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http://www.iskcon.com/icj/3_2/3_2saliba.html
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| | FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code |
| | In the Hindu religion the Supreme Being is conceived in the forms of several cult Deities. | | | [380 U.S. "in a relation to a Supreme Being" is whether a given belief that is sincere and meaningful occupies a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief in God of one who clearly qualifies for the exemption. | | | Where such beliefs have parallel positions in the lives of their respective holders we cannot say that one is "in a relation to a Supreme Being" and the other is not. |
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http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=380&invol=163
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| | AUM SHINRI KYO (SUPREME TRUTH) |
| | It appears to be a syncretistic religion, founded in 1987, and combining elements of Buddhism with Christianity. | | | Their name is a combination of Aum which is a sacred Hindu syllable, and Shinri Kyo which means "supreme truth". | | | They were explained as being part of an ancient tradition. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/dc_aumsh.htm
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| | Cult Chart |
| | Human beings are essentially divine; God is within each person. | | | Allah judges human beings for their actions in submitting to Allah, obeying the Shari'ah (holy law), and advancing the Ummah (people of Islam). | | | Personal Supreme being and Creator, who is generally beneficent; empowers lesser spiritual beings |
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http://www.zionbc.com/cult_chart.htm
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| | Chapter I: African Ophiolatry |
| | The reply being in the affirmative, a regular cult was established, according to the directions of the priests of Bobowissi. | | | The word 'cult' may be used to designate beliefs and acts whose nature is less clearly defined than is the case with concepts and ceremonies surrounding an act of worship. | | | The serpent has been viewed with awe or veneration from primeval times, and almost universally as a re-embodiment of a deceased human being, and as such there were ascribed to it the attributes of life and wisdom, and the power of healing. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/vao/vao03.htm
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| | EUH Documents |
| | That the guardian of the people (in spiritual things) should themselves be incompetent is an absurdity which amounts to the eternalization of absurdities. | | | As things now stand, much is lacking which prevents men from being, or easily becoming, capable of correctly using their own reason in religious matters with assurance and free from outside direction. | | | Being of Beings, we need not offer to Thee unjust prayers. |
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http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~velez/frdoc1.html
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| | FS Ancient Mysteries: Tomb Discovery Suggests Renegade Pharoah Worshipped Supreme Being |
| | Akhenaten broke away from the polytheistic ancient Egyptian religion to worship a supreme being incorporated in the solar disk, called aten, but the cult, which was accompanied by a more realistic art form, did not survive beyond his reign. | | | The tomb consists of two chambers whose walls are covered with a layer of marble and decorated with images of the high priest's funeral, said the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Gaballah Ali Gaballah. | | | FS Ancient Mysteries: Tomb Discovery Suggests Renegade Pharoah Worshipped Supreme Being |
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http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/asaqqara.htm
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| | The Hawaiian Supreme God |
| | One of the results of this book; is the proposition that the supreme God was known by various names in the different cultures, so there are those who pray to the Hawaiian God Io claiming he is the same God of the Bible. | | | Taylor and her mother were acquainted with the Maori cult of Io, but I suspect it goes back to 1920, when Maori Mormons first began coming from New Zealand to visit the Mormon Temple at Laia, Oahu. | | | So sure is Kikawa on God’s name being 'Io and known to the Hawaiians that he changed his probably, and insists: “The Hawaiian trinity was worshiped as one under many grand and mysterious names. |
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http://www.letusreason.org/Current68.htm
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| | Rant Morgan - Showing You How To Do The Things You Shouldn't Do |
| | Most main-stream religious movements start as cults, and as they grow in popularity are labeled a ‘religion’. | | | Most commonly referred to as ‘God’, but you can name your supreme being as you choose. | | | Just make sure your members know the writer of the story is a wicked, non-believer that needs to be saved. |
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http://www.rantmorgan.com/modules/news/print.php?storyid=18
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| | THE MAORI SUPREME BEING (POLYNESIA) |
| | The cult of Io was an esoteric one; that of the lower tribal gods may be termed exoteric. | | | 'C.O. Davis mentions that when attempting to question an old priest on the subject of the ancient Maori worship of the Supreme Being he was refused information, and politely referred to another priest 100 miles away. | | | With the ancient priest hoods, the knowledge of the great body of the most sacred Polynesian lore died. |
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http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/011.html
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| | Supreme Court Citations: 20. Encyclopedia of Religion, Vol. 12 |
| | These are sacrifices of homage and thanksgiving to the supreme being to whom everything belongs and who therefore cannot be enriched by giftsósacrifices to the giver of foods that human beings do not produce but simply appropriate for themselves through hunting and gathering. | | | These myths maintain that in primordial time there were as yet no mortal human beings but only divine or semidivine beings (dema beings); this state ended with the killing of a dema divinity from whose body came the plants useful to humans. | | | Many definitions of sacrifice specify divine beings (in either a monotheistic or a polytheistic context) as the recipients of sacrifice, but this is too narrow a view. |
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http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~biella/santeria/doc20.html
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| | Secret cult breaks 43-year spell |
| | The sect came here in the 1960s following Paul Schaefer, a charismatic World War II German army nurse, who cult members thought was God on earth and who preached an unnamed religion that said harsh discipline would draw them closer to the supreme being. | | | Schaefer, now believed to be 81 and whose whereabouts are unknown, banned television and telephones and blotted references to love and sex out of the Bible. | | | "Everyone saw him as a celestial being and no one dared doubt him. |
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http://www.rickross.com/reference/schafer/schafer4.html
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| | Deism |
| | From changing the calendar and the names of the the days to rebuilding the church into a Deistic church, most of the constructive activities of the radical leaders of the second revolution and the terror aimed at this goal of rebuilding society on rational principles. | | | If God is rational, then God can be understood through the use of reason without recourse to mysticism, superstition, prayer, or even the divinity of Christ. | | | The Deists set out to replace Christianity with its ceremonies, devices, and supernatural aspects with a religion they called "The Cult of the Supreme Being." |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GLOSSARY/DEISM.HTM
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| | Althouse |
| | It is that nobody worships a "very comprehensive supreme being, Seeger-type thing." Such a level of generality, a "generic" God, is religiously senseless. | | | What Wiesentier is calling a "problem" is the central point Breyer's argument makes: no one's version of God is being preferred. | | | someone came here after doing a Yahoo search for "this kind of very comprehensive supreme being, Seeger-type thing," a phrase Justice Breyer used to refer to God in the Newdow oral argument. |
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http://althouse.blogspot.com/2004/04/constitutional-thrills.html
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| | Hindu Scriptures |
| | Knowledge about Brahman (the Supreme Being), and Dharma is the subject and object of all Hindu scriptures. | | | These scriptures in the Sanskrit language, which are of the nature of revelations, have been handed down from master to disciple and thus from one generation to the next. | | | The Rigveda consists of 1017 hymns addressed to various gods, grouped in 10 ‘mandalas’ and each hymn being called a Sukta. |
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http://www.hinduism.co.za/hindu2.htm
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| | Goddess Kali Ma |
| | The Goddess Kali Ma is the supreme feminine manifestation of compassion as she frees us from the prison of our own ego. | | | Love and devotion to the Divine is a path easily traveled to know or merge in the non-dual reality of God's infinite being. | | | The Encyclopedia Britannica is very mistaken in this quote, "Major Hindu goddess whose iconography, cult, and mythology commonly associate her with death, sexuality, violence, and, paradoxically in some of her later historical appearances, motherly love." |
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http://www.goddess-kali-ma.com
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| | Untitled Document |
| | it he explained his idea for a civic religion worshipping a deist "supreme | | | vows to the Great Being who gave it the mission to undertake these | | | spirituality outright through an atheistic "cult of reason." |
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http://www.humanities.uci.edu/~rmoeller/body/supreme_being.html
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| | Definition of Cult of the Supreme Being |
| | The Cult of the Supreme Being was a religion based on deism created by Maximilien Robespierre, intended to become the state religion after the French Revolution. | | | Robespierre strictly believed that there was someone who was watching over France, and that was the Supreme Being. | | | The list of authors can be found here. |
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http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being
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| | Mosaic Unit 12: Cult of the Supreme Being |
| | During the festival, in fact, Robespierre, himself, lit a fire under an allegory of atheism and the people (for all the people were participants in the festival) would offer prayers of gratitude to the Supreme Being. | | | The Festival of the Supreme Being was the first of the regenerated festivals Robespierre envisioned as a part of the new revolutionary calendar. | | | This festival has struck many as a cult in that there were not spectators but celebrants, not an audience but a people. |
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http://college.hmco.com/history/west/mosaic/chapter12/image21.html
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| | Cult leader arrest stirs joy in Chile |
| | He preached an unnamed apocalyptic religion that extreme discipline would bring people closer to the supreme being and broke up families and prohibited contact between men and women. | | | Cult members say they blindly followed Schaefer's dictates for decades. | | | Cult members have denied they participated in torture but said they had friendly relations with the military, with whom they shared anti-communist philosophies. |
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http://www.rickross.com/reference/schafer/schafer8.html
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| | Decree of the Supreme Being |
| | It considers that the most important of these duties are: to detest bad faith and despotism, to punish tyrants and traitors, to assist the unfortunate, to respect the weak, to defend the oppressed, to do all the good one can to one's neighbour, and to behave with justice towards all men. | | | It recognizes that the best way of worshipping the Supreme Being is to do one's duties as a man. | | | The French people recognize the existence of the Supreme Being, and the immortality of the soul. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~etanter/decreesupreme.html
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| | Scientology --- truth vs cult hype / fiction...antidote for elronitis |
| | So Scieno promises empowerment of the individual and the precisely DISempowers them by connecting them to a false "Source" and denying them the power already there and available from the Supreme Being. | | | It also gives Man a false "Source" instead of a real Source of personal power and love (Supreme Being, "God", Creator etc..). | | | CULT HYPE: Scieno will make you more self-determined and pan-determined. |
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http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/cult-hiding-crimes.htm
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| | Reverse Spins |
| | He said the two small pieces of brown animal skin, inscribed in Hebrew with verses from the Book of Leviticus, are from "refugee" caves in Nachal Arugot, a canyon near the Dead Sea, where Jews hid from the Romans in the second century. | | | Naudon's book is an impressive work of scholarship grounded in fascinating ideas about sacred space, the rituals of building churches, cathedrals and temples, as well as the varied brotherhoods established to conduct what was once considered a divinely inspired activity. | | | Naudon, a scholar in the history of the law and a Freemason himself, traces the origins of the elusive society of Freemasons, of which the medieval Order of the Templars is a branch, illuminating its sources step by step from antiquity to the present. |
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http://www.reversespins.com
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| | The Supreme Being of the Herero |
| | As his blessings are the gifts of his kindness without any moral claims, the belief in Ndjambi has no moral strength, nor has the worship of Ndjambi become a cult. | | | As his essence is kindness people cherish no fear but a veneration for him. | | | At best his name is invoked only in Thanksgiving after some unexpected luck or they pray to him when all other means of help fail. |
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http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/006.html
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| | Headlines about History and Historians |
| | The Star-Spangled Banner will never wave again, but thanks to an $18.6 million conservation and education project, it has a good chance of being around for at least another century. | | | A person's affiliation with a political party, like his or her identification with a specific religious group, is "shaped more by socialization and almost not at all by genetics," they write. | | | Polish authorities accuse him of genocide by seeking to exterminate German prisoners by starving them to death, depriving them of medical care as well as carrying out torture and sanctioning torture by his subordinates. |
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http://hnn.us/articles/4480.html
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| | Cult of the Supreme Being - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Cult of the Supreme Being ( French : Culte de l'Ãtre suprême) was a religion based on deism devised by Maximilien Robespierre, intended to become the state religion after the French Revolution. | | | Robespierre's proclamation of the cult as the new state religion in 1794 was possibly one of the factors that prompted the coup d'état of 9 Thermidor and set in train the subsequent political reaction. | | | Robespierre believed that there was someone who was watching over France, and that was the Supreme Being. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being
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| | Cult of Reason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In particular, Chaumette and Hébert objected to Robespierre's emphasis on the Supreme Being as a back-handed return to theism, and instead advocated the worship of Reason, personified as a goddess. | | | The Cult of Reason was intended to complement, in the religious sphere, the radical opposition of the enragés to Robespierre's political project. | | | The Cult of Reason ( French : Culte de la Raison) was a religion based on deism devised during the French Revolution by Jacques Hébert, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette and their supporters, in opposition to the Cult of the Supreme Being instituted by Maximilien Robespierre. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_Reason
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| | CULT OF SCALIA |
| | Antonin Scalia, was appointed Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1986. | | | Since that time he has fought tirelessly for a Constitution of real meaning and for a democracy under the rule of law--rather than of men. | | | Scalia, Antonin Scalia, Justice Scalia, Scalia, J., Cult of Scalia, |
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http://members.aol.com/schwenkler/scalia
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| | MyJewishBooks Online |
| | "21" being the time when young people come of age and "64" connoting the age at which people begin to think about their legacies. | | | More space is sometimes given to the interviewee's relationship with his own father than with his children. | | | This man reportedly is praying that you will buy and read an entertaining Jewish book. |
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http://www.myjewishbooks.com
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| | Maximilien de Robespierre et Louis-Antoine de Saint-Just |
| | Maximilien Robespierre on the Festival of the Supreme Being. | | | Palmer, R.R. Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution. | | | Maximilien Robespierre: The Cult of the Supreme Being. |
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http://www.geocities.com/robespierre_et_saintjust/bibliography.html
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| | Informal Communist Discussion |
| | As these words are being written (November 6, 2004) another imperialist assault on the city is being prepared and it is expected that many thousands will die. | | | Some believe that Zhang's imprisonment is necessary to prevent China from being ruled by a class of wealthy and powerful thugs. | | | (1) There will be no government in communist society--people will do what they want without being pushed around by anyone. |
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http://www.communism.com
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| | Napoleonic France |
| | The Cult of the Supreme Being and (2) |
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http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/modernera/napoleon.htm
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| | The Pedantic Pundit |
| | Subject Finder is developed by Teum Teklehaimanot to help students, teachers and lecturers find educational websites easily without being overwhelmed with a huge number of search results. |
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