| Purple triangle purple triangle was a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify several religious minorities. Nazism opposed all non-Christian or unorthodox-Christian religious minorities (along with Jews).Among these communities were mainly Jehovah's Witnesses (known as Bibelforscher, "Bible students") and Germanic Neopagans, as well as a few members of Witness splinter groups, and members of the Adventist, Baptist, and New Apostolic movements. Purple_triangle
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| Li Hongzhi Li_Hongzhi
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| Eckankar Talk:Eckankar
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| Charismatic authority Talk:Charismatic_authority
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| Steven Hassan Steven Alan Hassan (born 1954) is a licensed mental health counselor and an exit counselor. Hassan was an early advocate of exit counseling, and is the author of two books on the subject of "cults", and what he describes as their use of mind control, thought reform, and the psychology of influence in order to recruit and retain members.Himself a former member of the Unification Church, after spending one year assisting with involuntary deprogrammings, he developed what he describes as his own non-coercive methods for helping members of alleged cults to leave their groups, and developed therapeutic approaches for counseling former members in order to help them overcome the purported effects of cult membership. Steven_Hassan
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| Steven Hassan Talk:Steven_Hassan
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| Simone Weil Talk:Simone_Weil
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| Pierre Plantard Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard (March 18, 1920 February 3, 2000) was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion, which he developed to manufacture evidence that he was a Merovingian dynast and the "Grand Monarch" prophesied by Nostradamus. Pierre_Plantard
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| Heung Jin Moon Heung Jin Moon (October 23, 1966 - January 2, 1984), also referred to by members of the Unification Church as Heung Jin Nim or posthumously as Lord Heung Jin Nim, was the second son of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, the leaders of the Unification Church (later renamed Family Federation for World Peace and Unification). Heung_Jin_Moon
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| Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter is a 2001 cult film from Odessa Filmworks which deals with Jesus' modern-day struggle to protect the lesbians of Ottawa, Canada, from vampires with the help of Mexican wrestler El Santo (Based on El Santo, Enmascarado de Plata) (played by actor Jeff Moffet, who starred as El Santo in two other Odessa Filmworks productions).This film earned an honorable mention in the Spirit of Slamdance category at the 2002 Slamdance Film Festival. Jesus_Christ_Vampire_Hunter
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| Kamikuishiki, Yamanashi was a village located in Nishiyatsushiro District, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.As of 2006, the village had an estimated population of 1,501 and a density of 17 persons per km². The total area was 86.59 km².Kamikuishiki achieved nationwide fame in Japan as a major center of the notorious cult religion Aum Shinrikyo which built its religious center and several facilities there, including a production center for nerve gases which were used in attacks on the Tokyo subway and in Matsumoto. Kamikuishiki,_Yamanashi
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| Karaite Judaism Karaite Judaism or Karaism (; , or Biblical Judaism"), is a Jewish movement characterized by the recognition of the Tanakh as its scripture, and the rejection of Rabbinic Judaism and the Oral Law (the Mishnah and the Talmud) as binding. The movement crystallized in Baghdad, in present day Iraq.When interpreting the Tanakh, Karaites strive to adhere to the plain, or most obvious meaning (p'shat) of the text. Karaite_Judaism
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| Jemima Wilkinson Jemima Wilkinson (November 29 1752 - July 1 1819) was a charismatic American evangelist who preached total sexual abstinence and the Ten Commandments to her congregation of "Universal Friends." Her family were strict Quakers, most of her views were from her upbringing in the Quaker religion.As a young woman, she was plagued by a debilitating illness which culminated in a fevered state, subsequent to which she was bedridden and near death. Jemima_Wilkinson
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| Charles Henry Allan Bennett Charles Henry Allan Bennett (1872-1923), was member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He was a friend and associate of Aleister Crowley. Bennett received the name Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya at his ordination as a Buddhist monk and spent years studying and practicing Buddhism in the East. Charles_Henry_Allan_Bennett
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| Anti-cult movement/Archive 1 Talk:Anti-cult_movement/Archive_1
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| David C. Lane David Christopher Lane (born April 29, 1956, Burbank, California) is a professor of philosophy and sociology at Mt. San Antonio College, in Walnut, California. David_C._Lane
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| Tal Brooke Tal Brooke (born as Robert Taliaferro Brooke) is the chairperson of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project, a Christian countercult and apologetics organization. He is the author of several books concerning the phenomena of Indian gurus, New Age spirituality, and the occult. He is a former follower of the Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba. Tal_Brooke
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| Swami Roberto Swami Roberto (born under the name Roberto Casarin on April 9, 1963 in Turin, Italy) is a guru who has founded the new religious movement called Universal Soul or in Italian, Anima Universale. The website of the movement states"Since His birth, supernatural phenomena are happening by means of Him. His infancy was far different as to the other children Swami_Roberto
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| Waco Siege Waco_Siege
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| CESNUR CESNUR (ItalianCentro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni), is a Center for Studies on New Religions, based in Turin, Italy. It was established in 1988 by a group of religious scholars from universities in Europe and the Americas, working in the field of new religious movements. CESNUR
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