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 Expert Speaks Out About Cult Findings Found In A San Juan Home Raid Author: Polo Sandoval Source: KRGV (TX) Title: EXPERT SPEAKS OUT ABOUT CULT FINDINGS FOUND IN A SAN JUAN HOME RAID Alfredo Murillo considers himself a spiritual guide; an expert in many religions and faiths, even in what he calls dark and white magic. Murillo keeps some necklaces nearby. He says they offer protection against what police found in a San Juan home earlier this week. We showed Murillo pictures of pots with human remains, African idols, ritualistic paintings; all items that were found during the home raid. Murillo says they're all symbols from the Yoruba Religion. It's related to the Afro-Cuban following called Palo Mayombe. | |
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| Harm, Crime, Or Human Rights? | Nov 5th. at 9:49:37 am EST |
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Terry (Irvington, Virginia) - Email Me This article smears together issues that are important to resolve. Pretty much all dogmatic, institutional religions assume traits that can accurately be branded as cults. The term cult is usually used as a pejorative, often without any substantive basis for depicting whether or how a given target is abusive, or just disliked by some other cult. Religions and their practices ideally would be healthy and supportive for those involved, but the legal bounds are at the other end of the spectrum, when specific acts move from being unhealthy to criminal. That needs to be further distinguished as to whether an entire organization is a criminal enterprise, like say the National Alliance based in West Virginia whose purposes are fundamentally criminal, or the Vatican whose purposes are mostly legitimate, but whose actions as an organization tamper with justice against child molesters they actively help evade the law, or which conducted mass genocides, and other assorted felonies among US states in their local operating corporations. Isaac Bonewits years ago developed a tool kit to sort out what tend to be sick cults, with potential for illegal child abuse that's legal for adults to tolerate, and may or may not also engage in crimes beyond that: [Web LINK] The issue in this case seems to be another variant of those evaluations of religious people and groups, as to whether in a legally innocuous religion, there are some individuals or subgroups whose actions are criminal, versus just seen as weird by other nearby cultists. That's common among Asatruar, in Islam, and among Jews who are reputedly skilled at war crime black ops, supported in part by a diamond cartel located across town from the United Nations and what purports to be a defensive group for Judaism. A violent minority faction within an otherwise majority peaceful religion tends to make the entire larger group suspect. That gets even messier with cases of psychos triggered or enabled by religious groups, like former Florida Secretary of State Kathleen Harris, or FBI Ten Most Wanted medical clinic bomber and burner Eric Rudolph. They both acted on indoctrination rooted in membership in recently deceased D. James Kennedy's psychotic dogma megachurch, Coral Ridge Ministries, enabling tampering with the 2000 elections to put a war criminal in office, or hide a serial violent felon in the hills for years evading the FBI. Without that kind of institutional backing, such individual psychos would likely be far less dangerous, and more easily contained or inhibited. In the case of this article, I don't spot any indication of such criminal problems, but rather merely neighbors who think other neighbors are weird. Big deal. |
| Hmm, Let's Define "Cult" Shall We? | Nov 4th. at 4:52:58 am EST |
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Roy Linford Adams (Buxton, Maine) - Email Me "Its followers believe human and animal sacrifices help destroy enemies." Christians believe the torture and sacrifice of a jew protects them from harm (i.e. enemies) They also believe drinking blood will give them eternal life. "Palo Mayombe is growing in popularity among criminals, turning deadly at times." 82% of prison inmates are christian. 89% of those on death-row are. The vast majority of known serial killers were also. Care to reconsider who's a cult? |
| This Is NOT A Cult! | Nov 3rd. at 10:42:46 pm EST |
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Maeven (Los Angeles, California) - Email Me Most pratitioners are solitary, there's no groups involved. Just because it's a religion that is not mainstream does not mean it's a cult!! |
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