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The problem of religious cults

Tiger

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I've been wondering if and how religious cults in the US can be eliminated. Unfortunately, it's not simple at all because of the 1st Amendment. Thus, outright banning would be unconstitutional unless it was amended to allow cults to be banned. However, that would also mean that the government could rule that entire denominations as well as nondenominational churches are cults and thus banned. And yet, cults like the Branch Davidians and the Strong City Cults as well as the various Mormon-based cults are (or were) exceedingly dangerous. I wish the answer to this problem were known, because more and more lives are being ruined because of cults.

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Bleu

Bleu 535

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Some cults do walk a fine line between what the 1st Amendment allows and crime.

 

Over here, legislation is a tad harsher than in the US about cults. See this law and the American reaction to it.

thatboyChase

thatboyChase 235

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C'THULU WILL RISE BEWARE THE SLIME FROM DEEP BELOW THE WAVES

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Jojo90

Jojo90 1

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I agree with you completely that cults are bad, and should not be allowed to stay around, but changing something like an amendment can be very difficult like you said. As nice as it would be to get rid of most of them(or at least the really bad ones), it is probably never going to happen, they will always find a way to get the followers they want. =(

Mark Arbour

Mark Arbour 99,407

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You don't want to go down this road. If they can ban a "cult", the next thing they can ban is a lifestyle, maybe even yours. I think we have to take the bad with the good, in this case.

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B1ue

B1ue 724

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+1100 to what Mark said.

 

People have to be allowed to be stupid, right up to the point where it becomes a crime.

Nephylim

Nephylim 14,881

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The way to eliminate cults is to improve the lves of people and make them strong so they don't need to cling to them. Still not an easy answer huh?

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