Talk:Cult (religious practice)

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[edit] Request for editing help with "Bahá'í Faith"

Currently the editing of the Bahá'í Faith entry (and related entries) is dominated by Bahá'ís, who take the opportunity to downplay criticisms and in general slant their information in predictable directions. Please consider this a call for non-Bahá'í editors to come have a look at the site, and help ensure balance. Thank you. Dawud 10:44, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

...but the same could be said of Roman Catholic Church etc etc... --Wetman 20:31, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

...or of Latter-day Saint or as you said, etc. etc. etc. ... Rick Boatright 16:52, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

I see what you say about the Bahá'í page, but after battling this same thing with the Nation Of Islam and the 5% people it becomes a case of people stubbornly wanting to get a point across, they are going to stick to it and edit, edit edit until it refelects their view. I guess this is the weakness of wiki.

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CAUTION *** Psychological War Zone *** Newcomers __ http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Caution.htm

Bahá'í fundamentalists are highly adept at manipulating and controlling information / disinformation and public perception, on and off the Internet.

I caution you that appearances are deceiving on Wikipedia, talk.religion.bahai and alt.religion.bahai, as elsewhere in Bahá'í cyberspace, BeliefNet, Talisman9, "unenrolled" Bahá'í Yahoo Group, the DMOZ and Google directories, and so on, all of which have been prime arenas of Bahá'í propaganda and used to identify and manage dissent.

For a historical perspective, "The Bahá'í Technique": http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm

Shunning & Slander > Menu http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Shunning.htm

Also see comments regarding talk.religion.bahai on Usenet http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Usenet.htm

Bahá'í-apologetics & BCCA (Bahá'í Computer and Communication Association) http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/BCCA_Ap.htm

-- Frederick Glaysher The Bahá'í Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/

This is someone who hasn't read the article. --Wetman 22:06, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rendering the definition meaningless

"By extension, "cult" has come to connote the total cultural aspects of a religion, as they are distinguished from others through change and individualization." "Total cultural aspects". This is just some individual's blurred impression. If the meaning of cult is this broad, it is without useful meaning at all. Cult=cultus. This person misconnects it as a synonym of culture. Can we eliminate this assertion? --Wetman 22:06, 27 August 2006 (UTC)