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{{Ideology
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|title=[[File:Cultism.png]] Cultism
|image = [[File:Cultism ball.png|thumb]]
|alignments = [[File:Nonquadrant.png]] [[:Category:Non-Quadrant|Non-Quadrant]]<br>
[[File:Religious.png]] [[:Category:Religious|Religious]]<br>[[File:PagTheo.png]] [[:Category:Esoteric|Esoteric]]
|aliases =
|influences =
[[File:Auto.png]] [[Autocracy]] (Most) <br>
[[File:Oligarchy.png]] [[Oligarchy]]<br>
[[File:PagTheo.png]] [[Pagan Theocracy]] <br>
[[File:Plutocrat.png]] [[Plutocracy]] (Most)
*[[File:Falun_Gong_Theo.png]] '''Falun Gong Theory''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Anticommunism.png]] Anti-Communism
**[[File:Anti-Globalism.png]] Anti-Globalism
**[[File:AntiLibIcon.png]] Anti-Liberalism (Most)
**[[File:Bud.png]] [[Buddhist Theocracy]]
**[[File:ChiangKaiShek.png]] [[Tridemism|Chiang Kai-shek Thought]] (Some)
**[[File:Confucianism.png]] Confucianism
**[[File:Ethnonat.png]] [[Ethnic Nationalism]]
**[[File:Natcon.png]] [[National Conservatism]]
**[[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]] (Some)
**[[File:PatPaleoCon.png]] [[Paleoconservatism]]
**[[File:React.png]] [[Reactionarism]]
**[[File:Rpop-tinfoilhat.png]] [[Right-Wing Populism]]
**[[File:Trumpism.png]] [[Trumpism]]}}

*[[File:LaRouche.png]] '''LaRoucheism''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Anti-British.png]] Anti-British sentiment
**[[File:Anticap.png]] Anti-Capitalism (formerly)
**[[File:Anti-Corrupt.png]] Anti-Corruption
**[[File:Anti-Elitism.png]] Anti-Elitism
**[[File:AnEn.png]] [[Anti-Environmentalism]]
**[[File:Anti-Globalism.png]] Anti-Globalism
**[[File:Antiimp.png]] Anti-Imperialism
**[[File:Anti-Semitic.png]] Anti-Semitism
**[[File:XiJinpingThoughtf.png]] [[Dengism]]
**[[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism]] (accused)
**[[File:Neomarx.png]] [[Neo-Marxism|Gramscianism]]
**[[File:Homophobia.png]] Homophobia
**[[File:Luxem.png]] [[Luxemburgism]] (formerly)
**[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] (formerly)
**[[File:Mil.png]] Militarism
**[[File:Platon.png]] [[Noocracy|Neoplatonism]]
**[[File:FDRismF.png]] [[Social Liberalism|New Deal]] [[Social Authoritarianism|Liberalism]]
**[[File:Protect.png]] [[Protectionism]]
**[[File:Regulationism.png]] [[Regulationism]]
**[[File:Indust.png]] [[Industrialism|Reindustrialism]]
**[[File:Rpop-tinfoilhat.png]] [[Right-Wing Populism]]
**[[File:Statecap.png]] [[State Capitalism]]
**[[File:Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism]] (formerly)
**[[File:WelfChauvin.png]] [[Welfare Chauvinism]]}}

*[[File:Mansonism.png]] '''Mansonism''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Accel.png]] [[Accelerationism]]
**[[File:Christy.png]] [[Christian Theocracy]]
**[[File:Ethno.png]] [[Ethnocracy]]
**[[File:Hippie.png]] [[Progressivism|Hippieism]]
**[[File:Neonazi ball.png]] [[National Socialism|Neo-Nazism]]
**[[File:Radenv.png]] [[Radical Environmentalism]]
**[[File:Scientheo.png]] [[Plutocracy|Scientology]]
**[[File:Whitesup.png]] [[White Nationalism]]}}

*[[File:Gülen.png]] '''Gülenism''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:ConDem.png]] [[Neo-Ottomanism|Conservative Democracy]] [[File:Conservdem.png]]
**[[File:Moder.png]] [[Moderatism]]
**[[File:Multicult.png]] [[Multiculturalism]]
**[[File:Islamic Democracy.png]] [[Islamic Democracy]]
**[[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[Islamic Theocracy|Islamism]]}}

*[[File:DGR.png]] '''Deep Green Resistance Thought''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Anprim.png]] [[Anarcho-Primitivism]]
**[[File:AntiIndust.png]] Anti-Industrialism
**[[File:Antiporn.png]] Anti-Pornography
**[[File:Deepe.png]] [[Deep Ecology]]
**[[File:Ecofash.png]] [[Eco-Fascism]]
**[[File:Ecofem.png]] [[Ecofeminism]]
**[[File:Neolud.png]] [[Neoluddism]]
**[[File:Radenv.png]] [[Radical Environmentalism]]
**[[File:Radfem.png]] [[Radical Feminism]]
**[[File:Transphobia.png]] Transphobia
**[[File:Tribal.png]] [[Tribalism]]}}

*[[File:Aryan Nations.png]] '''Aryan Brotherhood''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Whitesup.png]] [[White Nationalism]]
**[[File:Neonazi ball.png]] [[Nazism|Neo-Nazism]]
**[[File:Plcn2.png]] [[Paleoconservatism]]
**[[File:ChristyTaliban.png]] [[Christian Theocracy|Christian Fundamentalism]]
**[[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism]]
**[[File:Anti-Semitic.png]] Anti-Semitism
**[[File:Sep.png]] [[Separatism]]}}
|influenced = [[File:AnNatur.png]] [[Anarcho-Naturism]]<br>
[[File: Antijap.png]] [[Anti-Japaneseism]]<br>
[[File:Black Islamism.png]] [[Black Islamism]] <br>
[[File:Blackzio.png]] [[Black Zionism]]<br>
[[File:Esofash.png]] [[Esoteric Fascism]]<br>
[[File:Illum.png]] [[Illuminatism]]<br>
[[File:Mobutism.png]] [[Mobutism]]<br>
[[File:Pacfem-1.png]] [[Pacifist Feminism]]<br>
[[File:Posadist.png]] [[Posadism]]<br>
[[File:Satan.png]] [[Satanic Theocracy]] <br>
[[File:SL.png]] [[Silver Legionism]] <br>
[[File:Whitesup.png]] [[White Nationalism]] (some)
|caption="More x for the x god!"
|greatest_achievement=Heavens Gate
|gangs=
|likes=God?<br>Manipulation<br>Conspiracy theories<br>Deceiving people into joining his cult<br>Money<br>Propaganda<br>[[File:Trumpism.png]] Donald Trump<br>George Floyd
|dislikes=Atheists<br>[[File:Cball-China.png]] The CCP [[File:Mao.png]] [[File:Dengf.png]][[File:Jiang_Tze-min.png]][[File:Humanismpix.png]][[File:XiJinpingThoughtf.png]] <br>[[File:Soros.png]] George Soros
|definition=
|song=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGAirVaI764 Lone Stranger - Audri Music] <br>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvgYOIHtWDA Pyramid Mummy Money] (MLMs and Pyramid Schemes)
|examples= {{Collapse|
*[[File:KKKf.png]] [[White Nationalism|KKK]]
*[[File:Black_Islamism.png]] [[Black Islamism|Nation of Islam]]
*[[File:Heaven's_Gate.png]] [[Death Worship|Heaven's Gate]]
*[[File:Order_Of_Nine_Angles.png]] [[Esoteric Fascism|Order of Nine Angles]]
*[[File:Scientheo.png]] [[Plutocracy|Scientology]]
*[[File:JOS.png]] [[Satanic Theocracy|Joy of Satan]]
*[[File:Falun_Gong_Theo.png]] [[Reactionarism|Falun Gong]]
*[[File:EasternLightning.png]] [[Christian Theocracy|Eastern Lightning]]
*[[File:QAnonism.png]] [[Trumpism|QAnon]]
*[[File:BranchDavidian.png]] [[Protestant Theocracy|Branch Davidians]]
*[[File:Aleph.png]] [[Buddhist Theocracy|Aleph]]
*[[File:Martinism.png]] [[Christian Theocracy|Martinist Order]]
*[[File:Mlmg.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism-Maoism|Shining Path]]
*[[File:Native.png]] [[Indigenism|Cargo cults]]
*[[File:Gülen.png]] [[Islamic Democracy|Gülen movement]]
*[[File:Blackzio.png]] [[Black Zionism|Black Hebrew Israelites]]
*[[File:Aryan Nations.png]] [[White Nationalism|Aryan Nations]]
*[[File:Christcom.png]] [[Christian Communism|Peoples Temple]]
*[[File:React.png]] [[Reactionarism|Rajneesh movement]]
*[[File:LaRouche.png]] [[Welfare Chauvinism|LaRouche movement]]
*[[File:Kopimism.png]] [[Technoliberalism|Missionary Church of Kopimism]]
*[[File:ColoniaDignidad.png]] [[National Capitalism|Colonia Dignidad]]
*[[File:UNIVERSAL.png]] [[Christian Theocracy|Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus]]
*[[File:Mansonism.png]] [[White Nationalism|Manson Family]]
*[[File:OTS.png]] [[Crusadism|Order of the Solar Temple]]
*[[File:Münster rebellion.png]] [[Christian Communism|Münster rebellion]]
*[[File:Monarch.png]] [[Monarchism|Canudos]]
*[[File:Natcon.png]] [[National Conservatism|Unification Church]]
*[[File:VHMent.png]] [[Voluntary Human Extinction|2012 conspiracy theorists]]
*[[File:DGR.png]] [[Neoluddism|Deep Green Resistance]]
*[[File:Antijap.png]] [[Anti-Japaneseism]]
}}
|theorists={{Collapse|
*[[File:Blackzio.png]] [[Black Zionism|William Saunders Crowdy]] (1847-1908) [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States
*[[File:Blackzio.png]] [[Black Zionism|Frank Cherry]] (?-1963) [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States
*[[File:Scientheo.png]] [[Plutocracy|L. Ron Hubbard]] (1911-1986) [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States
*[[File:LaRouche.png]] [[Welfare Chauvinism|Lyndon LaRouche]] (1922-2019) [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States
*[[File:Heaven's Gate.png]] [[Death Worship|Bonnie Nettles]] (1927-1997) [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States
*[[File:Heaven's Gate.png]] [[Death Worship|Marshall Applewhite]] (1931-1997) [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States
*[[File:Christcom.png]] [[Christian Communism|Jim Jones]] (1931-1978) [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States/Guyana [[File:Cball-Guyana.png]]
*[[File:Mansonism.png]] [[White Nationalism|Charles Manson]] (1934-2017) [[File:Cball-US.png]] United States
*[[File:Mlmg.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism–Maoism|Abimael Guzmán]] (1934-2021) [[File:Cball-Peru.png]] Peru
*[[File:Aleph.png]] [[Buddhist Theocracy|Shoko Asahara]] (1955-2018) [[File:Cball-Japan.png]] Japan
*[[File:Falun Gong Theo.png]] [[Reactionarism|Li Hongzhi]] (1952-) [[File:Cball-China.png]] China
}}
}}
'''Cultism''' refers to the ideological tendency towards cults, the practices and devotions of a cult. Cults are usually defined in some sort of way as being organisations which exert an unhealthy and abusive amount of control over their members.

== History ==
Cultism as we know it and the term emerged in 1617, as a way of describing religious cults, but as it is described, it emerged between the years 1829 and 1920.
Something similar to cults has existed since antiquity, especially in ancient tribes and societies. An example could be the followers of Pythagoras, known for advancing mathematics and the execution of Hippasus of Metapontum, a mathematician known for discovering the existence of irrational numbers.

== Meanings of the Word 'Cult' ==

=== Cultivation ===
The term 'cult' is a cognate of the term 'cultivation'. In the broadest and non-negative sense a cult is any group who participate in cultivation of something, with that thing being seen as holy by the members of the group. This meaning of the word is used by the [[File:Catheo.png]] [[Catholic Theocracy|Roman Catholic]] and [[File:Orth.png]] [[Orthodox Theocracy|Eastern Orthodox]] churches to describe the public veneration of saints.

This meaning of the word 'cult' isn't really what people think when think of 'cults' and one shouldn't conflate this meaning with other meaning.

=== B.I.T.E. model ===
B.I.T.E. is an acronym for the four characteristics which according to the mental health counselor define what a cult is.<ref name=":0">[https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/ Steven Hassan's B.I.T.E. Model of Authoritarian control]</ref><ref>[https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/ Undue Influence]</ref> The B.I.T.E. model can generally be said to be what most people think when they think of the word 'cult'.

B.I.T.E. stands for<ref name=":0" />

* ''Behaviour control:'' The organisation takes control over its members' physical activity.
* ''Information control:'' The organisation takes control over its members' source of information.
* ''Thought control:'' The organisation takes control what its members can and cannot think.
* ''Emotional control'': The organisation takes control over what its members can and cannot feel.

<br />
=== Cult of Personality ===
Another meaning of the term 'cult' is found within the term 'cult of personality', which is a practice utilized predominantly by [[File:Auto.png]] [[Autocracy|autocratic]] political regimes. The term means worship of a certain individual (usually the current ruler or one of the founders of the regime). Some of the most well-known cults of personality are:
*[[File:Argentina.png]] [[Peronism|Juan Perón]] [[File:Pron.png]]
*[[File:Cball-China.png]] [[Maoism|Mao Zedong]] [[File:Mao.png]]
*[[File:Cball-Italy.png]] [[Fascism|Benito Mussolini]] [[File:Classfash.png]]
*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[National Socialism|Adolf Hitler]] [[File:Hitler.png]]
*[[File:Cball-North Korea.png]] [[Juche|Kim Il-sung]] [[File:Juche.png]]
*[[File:Cball-USSR.png]] [[Leninism|Vladimir Lenin]] [[File:orthlen.png]]
*[[File:Cball-USSR.png]] [[Stalinism|Joseph Stalin]] [[File:Stalin.png]]
*[[File:Ottoman.png]] [[Kemalism|Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]] [[File:Kemal.png]]

== Types of cult ==
=== Racist cults ===
=== Racist cults ===
*[[File:KKKf.png]] [[White Nationalism|Ku Klux Klan]]
Ku Klux Klan

=== Terrorist cults ===
Islamic State, Taliban

=== Political cults ===
A '''political cult''' is a cult with a primary interest on an ideology or a certain political leader and are usually holding extremist beliefs on both left and right. Notable political cults are:
*[[File:Stalin.png]] [[Stalinism]]
*[[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism]]
*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[National Socialism]]
*[[File:Juche.png]] [[Juche]]
*[[File:Obj.png]] [[Objectivism]]
*[[File:Putin.png]] [[Putinism]]
*[[File:Altr.png]] [[Alt-Right]]
*[[File:Trumpism.png]] [[Trumpism]] ([[File:QAnonism.png]] QAnon)

=== [[File:VolGeno.png]] Collective suicide/Destructive cults [[File:VHMent.png]] ===
Scientology

===Cults (To Christians)===
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church Unification Church] <br>
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons Mormons] <br>
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shincheonji_Church_of_Jesus Shincheonji]

=== Sex cult ===
W.I.P

== Personality ==
<s>Weird and not to be let around kids. Seriously, don't do let him around them.</s> Wait, this isn't Epsteinism…

== How to Draw ==
{{Flag|Cultism flag.png}}

*Draw a ball
*Color it with very dark red
*Draw an eye in the middle
**Inside the eye, draw a big X
**Draw the symbol ✨ glow, only black and in the middle of the symbol, draw a white circle.
*Draw two horns and you're done.
{{Flag-auto
|h1=#141414|c1=Black
|h2=#FFFFFF|c2=White
|h3=#340000|c3=Dark red
}}

== Relations ==
=== Blessed ===

*[[File:Satan.png]] [[Satanic Theocracy]] - <s><small>Diddle them kids.</small></s> '''<big>WAIT WHAT???</big>'''
*[[File:Plutocrat.png]] [[Plutocracy]] - Multilevel marketing is based!
*[[File:Auto.png]] [[Autocracy]] - Praise [Insert leader]!
*[[File:Totalitarian.png]] [[Totalitarianism]] - Sometimes my system is used by him.
*[[File:Senatorialism (Tentacles).png]] [[Senatorialism]] - Praise be to the Old Gods!
*[[File:Isolation.png]] [[Isolationism]] - The outside world will never understand us, it is best that we stay separate.
*[[File:Urb.png]] [[Urbism]] - Finally a place where we can be left alone.
*[[File:KKKf.png]] [[White Nationalism]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_titles_and_vocabulary#Code_words_and_phrases A.K.I.A]
*[[File:OOTS.png]] [[Death Worship]] - C'mon drink the <s>Kool Aid</s> Flavor Aid.

===Frenemies===

*[[File:Trumpism.png]] [[Trumpism]] - I like your supporters, but why do you call the [[File:KKKf.png]] KKK disgusting?
*[[File:MLM.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism–Maoism]] - The other kind of MLM, also based! Denies he's me and pretends to hate me, though.
*[[File:Antijap.png]] [[Anti-Japaneseism]] - I like your idea of overthrowing the Japanese government. It's just my methods are a little more "direct" Some of you guys are alright though, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack don't go to the subway tommorow].
*[[File:PagTheo.png]] [[Pagan Theocracy]] - I like you, your praxis and your tales, but you don't go far enough. Why just sacrifice animals in the occasional ritual blood sacrifice when you could mass-sacrifice thousands. (But your Aztec counter-parts were my greatest inspiration.)
*[[File:Cdem.png]] [[Christian Democracy]] - I do occasionally adopt your religion, but Jesus Christ some of you absolutely despise us!

===Foes===

*[[File:Christy.png]] [[File:JewTheo.png]] [[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[File:Hind.png]] [[File:Bud.png]] [[Theocracy (Disambiguation)|Theocracies]] - Ew, organized religions with no religious freedom.
*[[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism]] - OK I'm a cult, and? <s>Aren't we different? We both like brainwashing!</s>
*[[File:StateathFedora.png]] [[State Atheism]] - Really hate me.

==Further Information==
*[[w:Cult|Cult]]
*[[w:Cult (religious practice)|Cult (religious practice)]]
*[[w:List of new religious movements|List of new religious movements]]
*[[w:Governmental lists of cults and sects|Governmental lists of cults and sects]]
*[https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/ BITE model for determining cults]

===Notable Cults===
*[[File:Scientheo.png]] [[wikipedia:Scientology|Scientology]]
**[[wikipedia:L. Ron Hubbard|L. Ron Hubbard]]
**[[wikipedia:Tom Cruise|Tom Cruise]]
**[[w:Beck|Beck]] (left in 2019)
**[[w:List of Scientologists|List of Scientologists]]
**[[wikipedia:Charles Taze Russel|Charles Taze Russel]]
*[[File:Falun Gong Theo.png]] [[wikipedia:Falun Gong|Falun Gong]]
**[[wikipedia:Li Hongzhi|Li Hongzhi]]
**[[wikipedia:Shen Yun|Shen Yun]]
**[[wikipedia:Anastasia Lin|Anastasia Lin]]
**[[wikipedia:The Epoch Times|The Epoch Times]]
**[[wikipedia:New Tang Dynasty Television|NTD Television]]
**[[wikipedia:China Uncensored|China Uncensored]]
*[[File:EasternLightning.png]] [[wikipedia:Eastern Lightning|Eastern Lightning]]
*[[wikipedia:Unification Church|Unification Church]]
**[[wikipedia:Sun Myung Moon|Sun Myung Moon]]
*[[File:Heaven's Gate.png]] [[wikipedia:Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)|Heaven's Gate]]
*[[File:Order Of Nine Angles.png]] [[wikipedia:Order_of_Nine_Angles|Order of Nine Angles]]
*[[File:Martinism.png]] [[w:Martinism|Martinist Order]]
**[[w:Gérard Encausse|Gérard Encausse]]
*[[File:Black Islamism.png]] [[wikipedia:Nation of Islam|Nation of Islam]]
**[[wikipedia:Elijah|Elijah Muhammad]]
**[[wikipedia:Wallace Fard Muhammad|Wallace Fard Muhammad]]
**[[wikipedia:Louis Farrakhan|Louis Farrakhan]]
**[[wikipedia:Malcolm X|Malcolm X]] (Left in 1964)
*[[File:JOS.png]] [[wikipedia:Joy of Satan Ministries|Joy of Satan]]
*[[File:Aleph.png]] [[wikipedia:Aleph_(Japanese cult)|Aum Shinrikyo]]
*[[File:QAnonism.png]] [[wikipedia:QAnon|QAnon]]
*[[w:Peoples Temple|Peoples Temple]]
**[[w:Jim Jones|Jim Jones]]
**[[File:Cball-Guyana.png]] [[wikipedia:Jonestown|Jonestown]]
*[[File:LaRouche.png]] [[wikipedia:LaRouche_movement|LaRouche Movement]]
*[[File:ColoniaDignidad.png]] [[wikipedia:Colonia_Dignidad|Colonia Dignidad]]
**[[w:Paul Schäfer|Paul Schäfer]]
*[[File:Mansonism.png]] [[w:Manson Family|Manson Family]]
**[[File:Mansonism.png]] [[w:Charles Manson|Charles Manson]]
**[[File:EcoTerrorist.png]] [[w:Sandra Good|Sandra Good]]
*[[File:Blackzio.png]] [[w:Black Hebrew Israelites|Black Hebrew Israelites]]
**[[w:William Saunders Crowdy|William Saunders Crowdy]]
**[[w:Frank Cherry|Frank Cherry]]
**[[w:Kodak Black|Kodak Black]]
*[[w:Westboro Baptist Church|Westboro Baptist Church]] (not really a cult, but their actions are quite cult-like)

=== Citations ===
<references />

==Gallery==
<gallery>
CultismComic.png|thumb|Credit to u/Atzyn
Non-Quad Squad.png|By [[File:METBOL.png]] [[User:Muddy Mudkipz]]
</gallery>
{{Nonquad}}
{{Religious}}

== Comments ==
[[Category:Esoteric]]
[[Category:Pre-Enlightenment Ideologies]]
[[Category:Abnormally Shaped]]
<comments />

Revision as of 15:11, 17 April 2022

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Cultism refers to the ideological tendency towards cults, the practices and devotions of a cult. Cults are usually defined in some sort of way as being organisations which exert an unhealthy and abusive amount of control over their members.

History

Cultism as we know it and the term emerged in 1617, as a way of describing religious cults, but as it is described, it emerged between the years 1829 and 1920. Something similar to cults has existed since antiquity, especially in ancient tribes and societies. An example could be the followers of Pythagoras, known for advancing mathematics and the execution of Hippasus of Metapontum, a mathematician known for discovering the existence of irrational numbers.

Meanings of the Word 'Cult'

Cultivation

The term 'cult' is a cognate of the term 'cultivation'. In the broadest and non-negative sense a cult is any group who participate in cultivation of something, with that thing being seen as holy by the members of the group. This meaning of the word is used by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches to describe the public veneration of saints.

This meaning of the word 'cult' isn't really what people think when think of 'cults' and one shouldn't conflate this meaning with other meaning.

B.I.T.E. model

B.I.T.E. is an acronym for the four characteristics which according to the mental health counselor define what a cult is.[1][2] The B.I.T.E. model can generally be said to be what most people think when they think of the word 'cult'.

B.I.T.E. stands for[1]

  • Behaviour control: The organisation takes control over its members' physical activity.
  • Information control: The organisation takes control over its members' source of information.
  • Thought control: The organisation takes control what its members can and cannot think.
  • Emotional control: The organisation takes control over what its members can and cannot feel.


Cult of Personality

Another meaning of the term 'cult' is found within the term 'cult of personality', which is a practice utilized predominantly by autocratic political regimes. The term means worship of a certain individual (usually the current ruler or one of the founders of the regime). Some of the most well-known cults of personality are:

Types of cult

Racist cults

Ku Klux Klan

Terrorist cults

Islamic State, Taliban

Political cults

A political cult is a cult with a primary interest on an ideology or a certain political leader and are usually holding extremist beliefs on both left and right. Notable political cults are:

Collective suicide/Destructive cults

Scientology

Cults (To Christians)

Unification Church
Mormons
Shincheonji

Sex cult

W.I.P

Personality

Weird and not to be let around kids. Seriously, don't do let him around them. Wait, this isn't Epsteinism…

How to Draw

Flag of Cultism
  • Draw a ball
  • Color it with very dark red
  • Draw an eye in the middle
    • Inside the eye, draw a big X
    • Draw the symbol ✨ glow, only black and in the middle of the symbol, draw a white circle.
  • Draw two horns and you're done.
Color Name HEX RGB
Black #141414 20, 20, 20
White #FFFFFF 255, 255, 255
Dark red #340000 52, 0, 0


Relations

Blessed

Frenemies

  • Trumpism - I like your supporters, but why do you call the KKK disgusting?
  • Marxism–Leninism–Maoism - The other kind of MLM, also based! Denies he's me and pretends to hate me, though.
  • Anti-Japaneseism - I like your idea of overthrowing the Japanese government. It's just my methods are a little more "direct" Some of you guys are alright though, don't go to the subway tommorow.
  • Pagan Theocracy - I like you, your praxis and your tales, but you don't go far enough. Why just sacrifice animals in the occasional ritual blood sacrifice when you could mass-sacrifice thousands. (But your Aztec counter-parts were my greatest inspiration.)
  • Christian Democracy - I do occasionally adopt your religion, but Jesus Christ some of you absolutely despise us!

Foes

  • Theocracies - Ew, organized religions with no religious freedom.
  • Dengism - OK I'm a cult, and? Aren't we different? We both like brainwashing!
  • State Atheism - Really hate me.

Further Information

Notable Cults

Citations

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Steven Hassan's B.I.T.E. Model of Authoritarian control
  2. ↑ Undue Influence

Gallery

Template:Nonquad Template:Religious

Comments

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