The insidious recruitment
techniques of religious cults used to be a veritable genre staple, beginning, perhaps, with the fascination surrounding the highly publicized Manson Family murders in the late 1960s.
† Atheism making you agree with Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler (denied his faith later), Mao, Pol Pot & other terrible mass murder leaders who killed religious people
because of their religious cult!
Far Cry 5, while it does tackle the
subject of religious cults and their effect on a community to a certain degree, the story feels predictable and only a little deeper than a normal story.
The story revolves around the newest recruit into the Hope County Sheriff's department as he and the department seek to rid Hope
County of the religious cult, Eden's Gate.
Anderson grew up in the San Fernando valley,
home of the religious cult portrayed in the recent Brit Marling film Sound of My Voice and also the Spahn Ranch, the final nest of the Manson family.
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams, the movie revolves around the titular Master, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who leads
something of a religious cult that begins to gain popularity across 1950s America.
Both types of horror come from the beliefs and
practices of a religious cult («Faults») from which deprogrammer Ansel (Leland Orser; Taken / Taken 2, 2008/12) attempts to rescue Claire (Mary Elizabeth Winstead; 10 Cloverfield Lane, 2016).
With tensions growing in the real world and more and more divisions appearing in society, Far Cry 5's
premise of a religious cult leader with an Anti-Government stance may be a little to real to life for some.
A promo shows the recording sessions in action, and the results do indeed sound much more pleasant than the murderous
antics of the religious cult suggests.
It would appear we're fighting some
kind of religious cult deep in the heart of Hope County after watching these four trailers, let's just say you don't want to be on the wrong side of this church anytime soon.
While Okay Mountain's cohesive show at the Blaffer investigates groupthink sardonically through props and a video meant to mimic the initiation
rites of religious cults, Sketch Klubb appeared less comfortable (and rightly so) with situating their tits - and - dicks iconography in a critical construct at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston.
Sadar published his book, In Global Warming We Trust: A Heretic's Guide to Climate Science which contends that modern climate science is the
result of a religious cult.
I would be interested in anything that you, as a 21st century
member of the religious cult, might have to say, but am not interested in anything written so long ago by bronze age or iron age cult members because they really knew nothing about the world and believed in gods the same way any primitive man did... through scientific ignorance.
I was just never indoctrinated into
any of the religious cults.
In any other domain, silly * beliefs * such as
those of religious cults would have been discarded centuries ago.