Here is a progression of one line axioms to help you understand the nature and risks of cult.  Broken down to small pieces to simplify debate.  I will update this post as needed.  These truths are self evident.

What is faith

• Faith is knowing something you can’t prove.
• Everyone with a conscience has faith.
• Knowing yourself is impossible without exploring personal faith.

• Not all faiths are supernatural.
• Human societal behavior can’t be pure fact (complete science on human behavior is impossible)
• All politics are at least part faith.

 

Religion and it’s political cousins

• Not all faithful are part of an organization about their faith.
• Religions are organizations of common faith.
• Political parties are organizations of common faith.

• Faith based organizations can be fundamentalist (rule set oriented.)
• Any organization can be dualist (self contradicting rule sets)
• Faith leaders can use dualism to change rule cases (like case law for faith) subject only to skill.

 

Protopsychopathy

• Many empathic (with a conscience) human beings can have personal faith overwritten (protopsychopaths)
• Most people need constant exposure to the manipulating organization to be reprogrammed.
• Dualist fundamentalist faith organizations can change their rule cases to increase subconscious exposure.

 

Cult

• Faith organizations that deny exit, peace with others, or external speech are cults.
• Not all cult members are protopsychopaths(willing slaves), some are simply prisoners.
• Protopsychopathy may revert once the cult is exited, but also may persist for life.

 

Theocracy

• Any organization that controls all travel(exit) is an ultimate authority (government).
• Theocracy is a government(rules) based in religious fundamentalism (rules cases.)
• All religious cults are theocracies.

• Theocracies are governments.
• Governments typically respond to treason with execution (a form of denying exit).
• Theocracies are typically cults.

• Protopsychopathy can operate in complete stealth.
• Cult membership or protopsychopathy may persist for life without further direct influence.
• Cult can grow competing stealth governments, faith and religion can’t.

 

Democracy

• Psychopaths view all people as either masters or slaves, there are no peers.
• Psychopaths are attracted to all hierarchy including government.  Establishing they are master is their only desired goal in their natural order.
• The public is the only reliably conscionable body.

• The solution is not banning or shunning faith, religion or politics.  They are needed to improve knowledge in the conscionable body.
• Fundamentalist organization is the final stage of acceptable religious control of members before cult.
• Peaceful coexistence is incompatible with cult, cult takes prisoners.

 

Freedom

• A dead man’s switch indicates a dangerous change in a person or people’s state of mind.
• Fundamentalists need to display a dead man’s switch indicating they have not changed into a cult.
• The dead man’s switch should be a constantly, publicly reiterated commitment to the freedom of movement, peace, and the right to fork.  Should it fall silent we have been warned.

Edit: Typo.

Edit: Changed ‘outsider coexistence’ to ‘peace with others’ to cult test, for clarity.  Non violence is required.