Cults

[dzrose93]

Originally posted by carnation
My sister-in-law was involved in what I term a "Christian cult"--they made all kinds of rules for member behavior. I've seen several of those in the South--they make you break all your CDs and are heavily into "discipling"--i.e., they boss you around and decide who you can date and marry.

Luckily, the couple who got her into it saw the light and got her out. Good thing,as we were tired of hearing about Brother whatsisface.

I have a similar story. Several of my sorority sisters got involved in a religious group on campus that had some really crazy ideas. It was an offshoot of the Baptist Student Union, but none of the BSU students recognized it as an official religious group.

Among the usual things like "it's a sin to drink, even if you're 21", the group members had my sisters convinced that it was wrong to date. Not just that it was wrong to have sex before marriage (which I could understand some religious groups saying) - but that it was wrong to date PERIOD. So, the sisters became convinced that attending mixers with fraternities was wrong and it caused some problems in our chapter. Luckily, the majority of them realized after a few months how asinine some of the group's beliefs were and got out. But, from what I hear, that group is still going on my campus and girls are still getting sucked in. It's pretty amazing how naive and easily-manipulated some people are.