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Australian Cults
Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion points us to a distressing story coming out of Australia. It’s the story of Kylie and Nathan Zamprogno. According to Nathan, his wife was essentially brainwashed through use of the “repressed memory therapy” by an organization … Continue reading
Posted in Cults, Videos
6 Comments
Amazon Tribe, Suicidal Cult
You have to watch this. So sad.
Posted in Cults, Morality, Superstition, Videos
23 Comments
Church of Science-Fiction
I found this review of Hugh Urban’s The Church of Scientology to be very interesting. Urban seems to be a qualified analyst of minority religions and esoteric traditions, with previous works on Tantra and American esoteric traditions in India and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cults
11 Comments
Jesus Camp
Here are the edited highlights: I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
Posted in Christianity, Cults, Fundamentalism
26 Comments
Chivers on the Satanic Panic
I’ve managed to completely avoid the Amanda Knox trial. I just generally steer clear of show trials as much as I possibly can, a habit dating back to OJ. But via some discussion at the Wild Hunt, I came across … Continue reading
Posted in Cults, Current Events
5 Comments
Baiting Westboro
So the Foo Fighters do an internet video/promo for at upcoming tour. The video, loosely titled “Hot Buns,” stars the band as truck driving good ol’ boys (and one startled janitor) who soap up, bare (almost) all and do a … Continue reading
Posted in Cults, Music, Videos
23 Comments
DC-40
The Wild Hunt blog has been covering the New Apostolic Reformation as well as most of the news commentators. With good reason; the NAR have a special message on Facebook for Pagans, “We release perfect Blood-covered love into the core … Continue reading
Posted in Cults, Current Events
23 Comments
Doubt it.
When Prophets Fail
Ashley Fantz has a fascinating story up at CNN. She’s interviewing two of the survivors of the Branch Davidians, the sect once run by David Koresh in Waco, Texas. Their compound was attacked by the ATF in 1993, resulting in … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Cults
52 Comments
Across the Hollow Earth
This started as an experiment just to see how many digital sources I could find for this obscure figure in American history. Answer: quite a lot, really. A year after the end of WWII, noted astronomer Gerard Kuiper (for whom … Continue reading
Posted in Cults, History, Pseudoscience
6 Comments
