Cults for fun and profit.

1) Why do people follow cults?

	68% (28)	1) They feel their lives are empty
	46% (19)	2) They are lost
	43% (18)	3) They are stupid
	2% (1)	4) They are making a great decision. Cults are cool
	51% (21)	5) They like following charismatic authority figures
	24% (10)	6) Other
	4% (2)	7) Not sure

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2) Which cults are completely ridiculous. You may choose multiple responses.

	72% (31)	1) Scientology
	62% (27)	2) The Moonies
	37% (16)	3) Christianity
	44% (19)	4) Mormons
	11% (5)	5) Atheists
	55% (24)	6) The 700 club
	46% (20)	7) The Peoples Temple
	53% (23)	8) Brittany Spears
	34% (15)	9) Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
	34% (15)	10) Church of the Subgenius
	39% (17)	11) Freemasons
	55% (24)	12) Jehovah's Witnesses
	37% (16)	13) Falun Gong
	27% (12)	14) The Grateful Dead
	44% (19)	15) Oprah
	37% (16)	16) Campus Crusade for Cthulhu
	41% (18)	17) The Holy order of the Lemon
	41% (18)	18) Lyndon LaRouche
	55% (24)	19) Satanism
	48% (21)	20) All religions are cults and are ridiculous
	34% (15)	21) Other
	6% (3)	22) Not sure
	27% (12)	23) How dare you include my religion on this list!!!!!!

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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?

	30% (13)	1) Yes
	54% (23)	2) No
	4% (2)	3) No. I would just follow such a cult
	4% (2)	4) Other
	4% (2)	5) Not sure

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4) Are you offended by some of my possible choices of cults?

	18% (8)	1) Yes. (Please feel free to chew me out in the message area)
	48% (21)	2) No.
	20% (9)	3) Yes. But I have a good sense of humor and I understand that you are just being silly.
	11% (5)	4) No, but some of those choices are ridiculous
	0% (0)	5) Other
	0% (0)	6) Not sure

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5) So what is the differance between a cult and a religion?

	30% (13)	1) Cults are based on strong authoritarian personalities
	34% (15)	2) Cults have no tolerance for other perspectives
	48% (21)	3) Cults brainwash people and expect them to hold very narrow belief systems
	32% (14)	4) Cults merely seek power
	13% (6)	5) Cults are evil. Religion is good
	34% (15)	6) There is no differance
	34% (15)	7) Cults kidnap people and turn them against their families
	18% (8)	8) Other
	4% (2)	9) Not sure

43 voters have answered this question.

6) Have you ever been part of a cult?

	16% (7)	1) Yes
	78% (33)	2) No
	4% (2)	3) Not sure

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7) Picking on Scientology for a second, why in the world do people become Scientologists?

	30% (13)	1) They like bad science fiction and can't seperate it from real life
	47% (20)	2) Their favorite movie stars belong to it
	54% (23)	3) They have lots of money to throw at a multi-level marketing cult
	23% (10)	4) They enjoy being threatened if they question the program
	57% (24)	5) They are just plain stupid
	9% (4)	6) How dare you ask such a question. You need to be audited and cleared after paying us a few thousand dollars
	23% (10)	7) Other
	11% (5)	8) Not sure

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8) Finally, what are your religious beliefs?

	6% (3)	1) Christianity-Evangelical
	4% (2)	2) Christianity-Protestant
	4% (2)	3) Christianity-Catholic
	6% (3)	4) Mormon
	2% (1)	5) Christianity-Other
	2% (1)	6) Jewish
	0% (0)	7) Muslim/Islamic
	0% (0)	8) Hindu
	0% (0)	9) Buddhist
	2% (1)	10) Shinto
	0% (0)	11) Taoist
	9% (4)	12) Pagan/Wiccan
	0% (0)	13) Native American spirituality
	0% (0)	14) Kali worshiper
	32% (14)	15) Atheist
	9% (4)	16) Agnostic
	2% (1)	17) Mixed spirituality
	2% (1)	18) Spiritual but not religious
	0% (0)	19) Scientologist
	0% (0)	20) Moonie
	0% (0)	21) Church of the Subgenius
	4% (2)	22) Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
	0% (0)	23) Voodoo
	2% (1)	24) Other (I tried to include as many as possible, but I know that I missed some)
	6% (3)	25) Not sure

43 voters have answered this question.