Cults for fun and profit.
1) Why do people follow cults?
| 60% (33) | 1) They feel their lives are empty | |
|---|---|---|
| 45% (25) | 2) They are lost | |
| 34% (19) | 3) They are stupid | |
| 3% (2) | 4) They are making a great decision. Cults are cool | |
| 52% (29) | 5) They like following charismatic authority figures | |
| 21% (12) | 6) Other | |
| 7% (4) | 7) Not sure |
55 voters have answered this question.
2) Which cults are completely ridiculous. You may choose multiple responses.
| 60% (36) | 1) Scientology | |
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| 48% (29) | 2) The Moonies | |
| 40% (24) | 3) Christianity | |
| 35% (21) | 4) Mormons | |
| 11% (7) | 5) Atheists | |
| 58% (35) | 6) The 700 club | |
| 38% (23) | 7) The Peoples Temple | |
| 45% (27) | 8) Brittany Spears | |
| 33% (20) | 9) Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster | |
| 28% (17) | 10) Church of the Subgenius | |
| 33% (20) | 11) Freemasons | |
| 45% (27) | 12) Jehovah's Witnesses | |
| 30% (18) | 13) Falun Gong | |
| 26% (16) | 14) The Grateful Dead | |
| 35% (21) | 15) Oprah | |
| 30% (18) | 16) Campus Crusade for Cthulhu | |
| 33% (20) | 17) The Holy order of the Lemon | |
| 33% (20) | 18) Lyndon LaRouche | |
| 46% (28) | 19) Satanism | |
| 40% (24) | 20) All religions are cults and are ridiculous | |
| 28% (17) | 21) Other | |
| 6% (4) | 22) Not sure | |
| 23% (14) | 23) How dare you include my religion on this list!!!!!! |
60 voters have answered this question.
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% (16) | 1) Yes | |
|---|---|---|
| 52% (28) | 2) No | |
| 7% (4) | 3) No. I would just follow such a cult | |
| 3% (2) | 4) Other | |
| 5% (3) | 5) Not sure |
53 voters have answered this question.
4) Are you offended by some of my possible choices of cults?
| 18% (10) | 1) Yes. (Please feel free to chew me out in the message area) | |
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| 40% (22) | 2) No. | |
| 25% (14) | 3) Yes. But I have a good sense of humor and I understand that you are just being silly. | |
| 11% (6) | 4) No, but some of those choices are ridiculous | |
| 1% (1) | 5) Other | |
| 1% (1) | 6) Not sure |
54 voters have answered this question.
5) So what is the differance between a cult and a religion?
| 25% (14) | 1) Cults are based on strong authoritarian personalities | |
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| 29% (16) | 2) Cults have no tolerance for other perspectives | |
| 46% (25) | 3) Cults brainwash people and expect them to hold very narrow belief systems | |
| 29% (16) | 4) Cults merely seek power | |
| 12% (7) | 5) Cults are evil. Religion is good | |
| 31% (17) | 6) There is no differance | |
| 29% (16) | 7) Cults kidnap people and turn them against their families | |
| 20% (11) | 8) Other | |
| 3% (2) | 9) Not sure |
54 voters have answered this question.
6) Have you ever been part of a cult?
| 18% (10) | 1) Yes | |
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| 74% (41) | 2) No | |
| 7% (4) | 3) Not sure |
55 voters have answered this question.
7) Picking on Scientology for a second, why in the world do people become Scientologists?
| 37% (21) | 1) They like bad science fiction and can't seperate it from real life | |
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| 44% (25) | 2) Their favorite movie stars belong to it | |
| 51% (29) | 3) They have lots of money to throw at a multi-level marketing cult | |
| 21% (12) | 4) They enjoy being threatened if they question the program | |
| 48% (27) | 5) They are just plain stupid | |
| 7% (4) | 6) How dare you ask such a question. You need to be audited and cleared after paying us a few thousand dollars | |
| 19% (11) | 7) Other | |
| 12% (7) | 8) Not sure |
56 voters have answered this question.
8) Finally, what are your religious beliefs?
| 6% (4) | 1) Christianity-Evangelical | |
|---|---|---|
| 8% (5) | 2) Christianity-Protestant | |
| 3% (2) | 3) Christianity-Catholic | |
| 5% (3) | 4) Mormon | |
| 5% (3) | 5) Christianity-Other | |
| 1% (1) | 6) Jewish | |
| 0% (0) | 7) Muslim/Islamic | |
| 1% (1) | 8) Hindu | |
| 0% (0) | 9) Buddhist | |
| 1% (1) | 10) Shinto | |
| 0% (0) | 11) Taoist | |
| 10% (6) | 12) Pagan/Wiccan | |
| 0% (0) | 13) Native American spirituality | |
| 0% (0) | 14) Kali worshiper | |
| 27% (16) | 15) Atheist | |
| 8% (5) | 16) Agnostic | |
| 1% (1) | 17) Mixed spirituality | |
| 3% (2) | 18) Spiritual but not religious | |
| 0% (0) | 19) Scientologist | |
| 0% (0) | 20) Moonie | |
| 3% (2) | 21) Church of the Subgenius | |
| 3% (2) | 22) Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster | |
| 0% (0) | 23) Voodoo | |
| 1% (1) | 24) Other (I tried to include as many as possible, but I know that I missed some) | |
| 6% (4) | 25) Not sure |
59 voters have answered this question.
