Let's take some common signs that might indicate that you are in a cult. In this case, I am using a story from the Atlantic, but what I am borrowing represents very common descriptions of cult-like characteristics. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/06/the-seven-signs-youre-in-a-cult/361400/ 1. Opposing critical thinking In the book Jesus and Mohammed, the author Mark Gabriel, who has a PhD in Islamic history and culture from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, began to do the unthinkable. He began to think for himself. He was already a lecturer and mosque leader. He tried to get real answers from other religious leaders around him, only to be given unsatisfactory answers. Here is an excerpt from his book: All these seem like pretty reasonable questions, do they not? And the answers were clearly not very good. Contradictions were apparent but no one took them seriously. After doing a great deal of research on his own, he c...
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