Sentences with phrase «think of cult»

When I think of cult games, my mind goes to that early era of CD - ROM games.

Most of the time when we think of cult classics, we think of hidden gems.

001 / / 002 / / 003 / / 004 / / 005 / / 006 / / 007 / / 008 When you think of Cult Gaia, you may think of those wooden bags that all the fashion «it» girls and bloggers were toting around all summer.

But «moonies» who must be «deprogrammed,» Children of God who must be parentally «kidnapped,» or devotees who are «forced» into mass marriages are additional instances of our inability to think of cult members as just ordinary church members.

Another word that pops into our heads when we think of cult followings is Crossfit.

One thinks of the cult of celebrity.

As little as Jesus thinks of cult as a good work, does he think of it as a mysterious means of freeing man from his lower nature.

On the one hand, we can think of cults which we know exist to extort money (and other things) from people by using illegitimate means of persuasion: brainwashing, bullying, false promises.

Not exact matches

Amazon: One of Cramer's proclaimed «cult stocks,» and he thinks that it will be shining from year - end Internet sales.

It was never going to replace the IBM PC which was the initial intent, but what we discovered during those six months is that there was a little bit of a cult personality in this computer and that certain people thought this computer was really cool and it reflected their difference, if you will.

Called «a cult legend in the online - community building world» by Mashable, Ryan is now focused on creating a strong membership experience and positive business outcomes for thousands of successful executives, thought leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs across the country.

And when you use those thinking and analyzing abilities and they tell you Christianity is but a false cult — well, that can obviously create some cognitive dissonance even with people of faith.

Ex-Mormons think the Mormons are a cult — becuase the Latter Day Saints leadership follow much of the BITE model.

i do get mad when i think of my brothers and sisters wasting their lives in the various cults (christianity, judaism, islam, buddhism, taoism, etc.).

if you «re thinking freely you ca n`t be a part of a cult then.

Me, I wouldn't send any child of mine anywhere near any church, and I'm having are hard time deciding which cult is worse, the rcc with their never ending child abuse or islam which thinks it's OK to marry off 10 year girls (if they are «ripe»).

yes, even if you're in a religious cult and you think all kinds of crazy things that have no basis in reality.

You can also poke around on your Nook or Kindle — there are e-books there written for the faithful that give a detailed insight into the cult - like thinking (well, poor choice of words, a favorite LDS saying is, «the thinking is done», but you catch my drift) that's used to control their people from a very young age to find «the world» unbearable and the church to be a haven, etc..

So to think that there in some sort of cult is BS.

I think the point here is that Mormons have a long detailed and well - docu - mented history of violating the First Amendment, just like busy - bodies from other cults.

What do you think MLK would think of you racist cult?

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

You ex-Catholics who are thinking of going back to the cult are exactly what is intended by this scheme and you are falling for it like sheep running over the cliff.

[I disagree with the assertion that Mars Hill is a cult, but I think Fred's point about our tendency to see sexual betrayal as bad «because it involves sex rather than because it involves betrayal» is spot - on, and his concerns about Driscoll's preoccupation with sex and power are, of course, warranted.]

While personalities like comedian - MMA commentator Joe Rogan and history storyteller Dan Carlin had become cult - like sub-genre superstars with hundreds of millions of downloads, odds are it was the buzz around Serial that put podcasts on the map for your aunt in Ohio who had never before thought about what that purple app on her iPhone was for.

It's still my Emergent Cult Story and My Survival of Life with a Narcissist Story, whether you think it's horrible or not.

A more serious result of this shift to an agricultural society was the tendency to adopt the Canaanite (and before that, Babylonian) fertility cults of Baal and Ashtoreth, and to forsake the worship of Yahweh for a deity they thought might be more economically useful to them by increasing their herds and crops.

I think it speaks volumes on how effective the brainwashing of cults really are.

Ask Romney how he became a Christian, Romney is a member of a cult who thinks God came from some distance planet.

I assume if folks were educated on these areas of Mormonism, I would think people would not quite see as anything but a cult.

I think Obama's form of Christianity is closer to what Scripture teaches then what Billy Graham is saying by taking down the fact that Mormonism is a cult according to Scripture

I also think lots of pastors really don't believe anyway — they get the game, they are not in it to model after that cult leader.

I think I'm going to be sick, AA wants nothing to do with press radio or film (nor does it wish to engage in any sect, cults or religion), yet you have the nerve to write an opinionated article about not believing in God and being part of AA?

Hell, a lot of you wingnuts think it's your duty to get other people to believe the same garbage as you, so you go around bugging people and trying to get them to convert to your cult as a way of life!

I am a born again christian, Santorum was in a cult as well, as you all seem to think Rommey a morman makes a difference it's God will to get Pres. Obama out of office get your head on strait or we will have P Obama again and lose all our rights as Christians, and people in all walks of life.

If you are convinced that your particular religion or belief system is superior to others and people need to be converted to your particular way of thinking, then you are not part of a religion, but are part of a cult.

I know my religion isn't mainstream and some people think we're a cult, etc. but the bottom line is if Mitt was elected I'm sure he is capable of doing the job, Just like any other qualified person would be.

Ha Ha Ha, A member of the cult of Jehovahs Witness who also perverted the bible with their NWT and evil corrupt founder Charles Taze Russell who remember was a pedophile, sold magic wheat and healing clothes and thought the pyramids told of the «invisible» return of Christ in 1914 putting down and saying a Mormon is wrong, your just as nuts.

I think this same syndrome helps us understand the cult of youth in American society.

Jolsteen, Graham and persons like these, are the worst example of the freedom to express yourself, but they can be bought, why would they talk to a Cult if they think it is a Cult.

This issue of wearing religion on your sleeve is wrong and thinking it makes you better than the rest or draw attention to yourself for publicity and self promotion, that ends up in big dollar contracts is akin to the religious cult and religous business that is the Tammy and Jim Baker.

I think it started in the Western world when the Romans conquered ancient Judea (part of Israel) and granted the Jews an exemption to worshiping the cult of the Roman emperor.

Some think it may point to the vestige of a moon cult, for the moon remains invisible for three days in the monthly cycle.

great, i always thought there should be more depth to cults instead of just telling flat lies and collecting money from the non-educated and brain - washed morons... this just makes the whole thing of CULT seem way more real, more so then it ever did!

I only know personally of two successful christian communities where believers live either together or buy up houses on a particular street and run businesses (other than some cult communities which are differently run — they are not, I think what we are talking about here) and share resources.

Pate is on to something about Paul's thinking and theology that is often missed by Pauline scholars: Paul is not only writing a response to Jewish theology, but is also writing a response to Greek and Roman theology, and especially the Imperial Cult of Caesar worship.

It asks it followers to suspend thought and be subservient to a cult, offering nothing more than lies design to exploit the victims fear of death.

At first I started to cringe about this article, but I think it does a good job of dispelling some myths that AA is a cult, a religion.

To franklin Graham all I can Say is you choose a cult member, an organization that proudly admits its a mormman group over a fellow Christian, let me just say a lot of my black Christian friends thinks that one decision divided our races more then anything in the past thirty years but we still consider those that feel that way family members although you may not.

The religion of «Christian» scientists is probably a little different from the religion of the «Christians» who think of science as some kind of cult in its own right.