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Category Archives: cults

Sadam didn’t serve koolaid

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

The best book I’ve read on cults is Steven Hassan’s “Releasing the Bonds: empowering People to Think for Themselves” but there are a lot of good books because cults tend to prefer to bring smart capable people under their thrall and some of these escape and respond by writing books. What makes Hassan’s book helpful [...]

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Antinomian Ranters!

Monday, April 21, 2003

I am not the least surprised to learn that the Ranters were an “antinomian sect”. I see that their oponents would insult them by refering to them as “high proffessors“, makes sense to me. They really knew how to name a sect back then: Ranters, Quakers, Shakers, Manifestarians, Muggletonians, Levellers, Diggers, Seekers, and of course [...]

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Commerical Cults

Tuesday, July 23, 2002

Today’s times has an article that at first blush is about the top 25 internet retailers and how some of them might surprise you – e.g. Dell is #1 and TicketMaster is #2. The majority of the article is about Amway’s success with thier Quixtar subsidiary. Apparently the article’s author was unable to type Quixtar [...]

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