Cults

Cults Cults really started to fascinate people when Jimmy Jones cult began in November of 1978 when all attention was focused on the mass suicide in Jonestown. A similar event happened in 1993 when federal agents engaged in a shoot out with cult leader David Koresh. Cults build around a charismatic leader who has a lifestyle dedicated to a specific spirituality group that they know other people will follow. Mormonism began as a small cult then grew bigger until it eventually became a church. All new religions started the same way by beginning small and getting bigger, eventually becoming a church. The most well known cult so far is the Heaven’s Gate cult. The 39 members who took their own lives in March of 1997 were professional Web page designers who used the Internet to attempt to win converts and spread their message (CNN). Heaven's Gate members believed that Hale-Bopp, a comet that was currently in the news, was the sign that they were supposed to shed their earthly bodies, or "containers”, and join a spacecraft traveling behind the comet. The spacecraft was supposed to take them to a higher level of existence. They died in shifts-, some members helped others take group, cult, people, members, groups, cults, they, new, join, social, make, find, religious, political, give, gate, feel, about, you, way, thoughts, tend, take, supposed, support, suicide, spacecraft, something, small, school, questions, process, pressure, own