Most Read This Week In Cults

"Cult" may refer to the original and typically ancient sense of "religious practice" or to a newly established religious movement. It is also a pejorative term for a group whose religious beliefs are considered fanatical and unacceptable.

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The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom

The Back Bedroom: A True Story of Exorcism and Murder

Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)

The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness

Holy Disruptor: Shattering the Shiny Facade by Getting Louder with the Truth

The Vampire's Cult: The Untold Story of Obsession, Control, and a Shocking Small-Town Murder

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism

The Church of Frendo (Clown in a Cornfield, #3)

Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

The Culting of America: What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks

Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America

Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

The True Happiness Company: How a Girl Like Me Falls for a Cult Like That

That Time I Took Down A Cult (Cozy Cult Cuties, #1)

Empire of Orgasm: Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness Cult

Clown World: Four Years Inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere

Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

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Quotes Tagged “Cults”

“ I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the fo ...more ”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

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“ People do not knowingly join “cults” that will ultimately destroy and kill them. People join self-help groups, churches, political movements, college campus dinner socials, and the like, in an effort to be a part of something larger than themselves. It is mostly the innocent and naive who find themselves entrapped. In their openhearted endeavor to find meaning in their lives, they walk blindly into the promise of ultimate answers and a higher purpose. It is usually only gradually that a group tu ...more ”
― Deborah Layton, Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple

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