TERROR- Intense, overpowering. Anything that instills such fear. 2. Violence toward private citizens, public property, and political enemies promoted by a political group to achieve or maintain supremacy. 3. An annoying or intolerable pest: nuisance often used in the phrase a holy terror. …… (Conway and Sieglman, Holy 3).

Jehovah’s Witnesses- Any National flag is a symbol or image of the sovereign power of its nation. All such likenesses [symbols of national power: eagle sun, lion, etc] are forbidden. Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse to pay homage in any way to the flag of any nation or even to defend their own individual nation (Martin 100).

In recent years we’ve seen a growing tendency by our political and religious leaders to invent a homogeneous past, a golden age of perfect consensus

For thousands of disapproving parents of cult members those two phrases alone are enough to define a cult. But when a person encounters a new religious movement, such a simplistic definition may not be enough to help him evaluate it. Here are some additional criteria a person may use to determine the legitimacy of a new religion:

Many times recruitment will start with a dinner invitation. The recruiter, who is almost always of the opposite sex, takes the young recruit to a church house. Often, the individual will

on values and morals. In truth this never existed (Marty 5).

Religions, especially these called cults, justify their evangelism and recruiting techniques with the line “we have found the truth and are compelled to share it” (Stoner and Parke 23). Most accepted religions insist on a program of study, contemplation, and soul-searching before they will consider a convert for membership. Most of the new religions encourage sudden, emotional conversion (Stoner and Parke 23, 24). New religions use the most effective techniques they know to recruit and teach. Nevertheless, the fact is many of the techniques are disreputable.

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