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Originally Posted by james73
Thanks BearBear-
One I found useful was: http://www.enlightened-spirituality....nal_cults.html
The link I posted there offers a list of 35 "warning signs". Using this I decided to score three Hong Kong churches, with 0-10 points for each warning sign, giving a maximum score of 350. It's subjective but I did TRY to be objective in allocating points  I did this while still in the LC and deciding whether I should stay or go. I scored the other churches cos I was just curious if it was maybe a Christian thing, and also to get some kind of benchmark. You could call it a "cult score".
Church in Hong Kong (Living Stream Ministry): score 226, or 65%
International Christian Assembly (Assemblies of God): score 89, or 25%
St Johns Cathedral (Anglican): score 15, or 4%
Interesting to see if anyone else has the time and inclination to do likewise, see if there's any consistency in the results!
Cheers
James
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According to that link, even the Republican Party is cultic!
Notoriously "left out," however, is the radical liberal Democratic Party.
I did find it comforting to learn that nearly every organization is cultic in some way, whether benign or malignant, functional or dysfunctional.