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//Moryl, John. "Odd Gods: New Religions & the Cult Controversy." Library Journal 1 Apr. 2001: 92. Student Resources in Context. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. // //Document URL // //http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA73308832&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw= //
 * //Cults are usually called out of the main stream. //
 * //All cults are controversial. //
 * //The government and legislative branches usually get involved with cults that are causing large problems like death, or the disturbance of other people. //
 * Many cults are dangerous, weird, or they only twist the christian belief ever so slightly
 * Cults can be defined as Cults, Sects, Or NRM (New Religious Movement)
 * Heaven's Gate is one of the most dangerous cults known of.

Riess, Jana. "A 'model minority' blends in Normal Mormons." //The Christian Century// 128.20 (2011): 22+. //Student Resources in Context//. Web. 26 Oct. 2011.Document URL  http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA270730906&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * There are president running that belong to the Mormon (church of latter day saints) cult
 * This is causing them to not be supported by today's society due to that fact.
 * Mormons rate as the third most hated religious group.
 * Many people believe that Mormons who are teaching false things aren't fit to run for president.
 * Mormons are trying to make there way into the mainstream. but many aren't accepting them.
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Mormons beliefs are constantly changing
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Mormons believe that they will become gods when they die.
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Morons beliefs sometimes start to fade away. Like there belief into a plural marriage
 * <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Whenever there is a problem that society has with Mormonism, Mormons will then change something but harden another part of there religion.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Gustainis, Justin. "Cults." //Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America//. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Vol. 4: 1960s-1970s. Detroit: UXL, 2002. 1073-1074. //Gale Virtual Reference Library//. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Document URL <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;"> http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CCX3425100652&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Cult-is practicing that is outside of the mainstream. It also practices evil or crazy idea's.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">To meat the standard of a cult, it has to be of a somewhat small size, and is usually fairly new.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">A lot of cults that are more recognized by society are ones that are killing the cultists or people outside of the cult.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Cults that have done this are the Waco, Texas cult, and the Jim Jones cult.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Both of these lead to a U. S government investigation.

<span style="color: #d92716; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">"What the Cults Believe." //Department of Computer Science, Cornell University//. Tabernacle Baptist Church, 1999. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kreitz/Christian/Cults/all.html>. > >
 * <span style="color: #d92716; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Cult usually have a charismatic leader
 * <span style="color: #d92716; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Mormons don't drink tea, or coffee.
 * <span style="color: #d92716; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Jehovah's witnesses, Mormons, and seventh day Adventist, all have very similar beliefs.
 * <span style="color: #d92716; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Society believes that many cults use brainwashing, and try to persuade the human psyche to follow there cult.
 * <span style="color: #d92716; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Many cultists go unwillingly
 * <span style="color: #d92716; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Some people in cults will end up killing there own children, and then themselves to go along with there cult.
 * //Definition of a cult:A cult is a system of religious beliefs and rituals that is regarded as unorthodox or spurious, with a great devotion to a person, idea, or thing.//

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">"Top 10 Cults." //Top 10 Lists - Listverse//. WordPress, 2007. Web. 31 Oct. 2011. <http://listverse.com/2007/09/15/top-10-cults/>.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Many of the cultists who escape end up having psychological harm
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Cultists will do anything that they can to stay with the cult leader and to obey the cult itself.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Cults can form from something as simple as a yoga class.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Cults will keep people against there will and if they try to leave they will be shot or murdered in some way.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Many cults believe and make other people believe that they are the only way, and anyone straying away ins following a false religion.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Cultists will end up dying by the cult leader or by a mass suicide, they commit themselves.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Society has defined cults as out of the mainstream, and cults that have even been around a while are still not considered a religion
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Cult leaders will twist the truth of something that a person believes in and change it for each other person.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">A cult can be worldwide not just in one specific area.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Sometimes people will be forced to loose all contact with there family
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Cultists will willingly commit suicide
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Sometimes the government getting involved isn't the best thing for the cultists
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">"Drinking the Kool Aid is a term that is used when people join a cult.