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Cults for fun and profit.

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I am always wondering why people follow religious cults and find their absolute wackiness kind of fascinating. I will probably upset most people with some of the questions if they have no sense of humor. What do you think?
1) Why do people follow cults?
1) They feel their lives are empty
2) They are lost
3) They are stupid
4) They are making a great decision. Cults are cool
5) They like following charismatic authority figures
6) Other
7) Not sure
2) Which cults are completely ridiculous. You may choose multiple responses.
1) Scientology
2) The Moonies
3) Christianity
4) Mormons
5) Atheists
6) The 700 club
7) The Peoples Temple
8) Brittany Spears
9) Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
10) Church of the Subgenius
11) Freemasons
12) Jehovah's Witnesses
13) Falun Gong
14) The Grateful Dead
15) Oprah
16) Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
17) The Holy order of the Lemon
18) Lyndon LaRouche
19) Satanism
20) All religions are cults and are ridiculous
21) Other
22) Not sure
23) How dare you include my religion on this list!!!!!!
3) If you could write bad science fiction and make a multi-level marketing scheme disquised as a religion around it and buy up a large chunk of L.A. and other major cities in the process, would you?
1) Yes
2) No
3) No. I would just follow such a cult
4) Other
5) Not sure
4) Are you offended by some of my possible choices of cults?
1) Yes. (Please feel free to chew me out in the message area)
2) No.
3) Yes. But I have a good sense of humor and I understand that you are just being silly.
4) No, but some of those choices are ridiculous
5) Other
6) Not sure
5) So what is the differance between a cult and a religion?
1) Cults are based on strong authoritarian personalities
2) Cults have no tolerance for other perspectives
3) Cults brainwash people and expect them to hold very narrow belief systems
4) Cults merely seek power
5) Cults are evil. Religion is good
6) There is no differance
7) Cults kidnap people and turn them against their families
8) Other
9) Not sure
6) Have you ever been part of a cult?
1) Yes
2) No
3) Not sure
7) Picking on Scientology for a second, why in the world do people become Scientologists?
1) They like bad science fiction and can't seperate it from real life
2) Their favorite movie stars belong to it
3) They have lots of money to throw at a multi-level marketing cult
4) They enjoy being threatened if they question the program
5) They are just plain stupid
6) How dare you ask such a question. You need to be audited and cleared after paying us a few thousand dollars
7) Other
8) Not sure
8) Finally, what are your religious beliefs?
1) Christianity-Evangelical
2) Christianity-Protestant
3) Christianity-Catholic
4) Mormon
5) Christianity-Other
6) Jewish
7) Muslim/Islamic
8) Hindu
9) Buddhist
10) Shinto
11) Taoist
12) Pagan/Wiccan
13) Native American spirituality
14) Kali worshiper
15) Atheist
16) Agnostic
17) Mixed spirituality
18) Spiritual but not religious
19) Scientologist
20) Moonie
21) Church of the Subgenius
22) Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
23) Voodoo
24) Other (I tried to include as many as possible, but I know that I missed some)
25) Not sure
This poll was created on 2008-01-27 08:26:29 by totoro