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<i>For this article to have the [[neutral point of view]], it should say '''who''' considers each listed a group a "cult" and '''why''', balanced by similar info about those who disagree with the "cult" designation. Otherwise, it's just a list of groups that have somehow acquired a bad reputation.</i>



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This is a list of organizations, religious groups, and sects which are purported to be cults.

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=== Unification Church ===



The [[Unification Church]] has been called a 
"cult" for religious heresy, alleged corruption in its top leadership, [[mind control]], and (in the past) fears that its members would commit mass suicide.



The church does have a novel view of the trinity (and of Jesus' divine nature), but is accepted as Christian to some extent. Allegations of corruption are based primarily on Rev. Moon's conviction in the early 1980s on charges of criminal tax fraud, although the amount allegedly underpaid was less than $7,500 and the case was initiated nearly ten years after the fact based on the first three returns Rev. Moon filed after coming to the US. The jury is still out on charges of mind control, with critics' accusations balanced by church insistence that its recruitment and indoctrination techniques are no different from any Christian denomination. Fears of mass suicide, played up in the aftermath of the [[People's Temple]] disaster of 1980, have proven false in the succeeding two decades, and the church considers suicide a terrible sin (suicides go to hell).



Another criticism of the Unification Church is that it is centered to an extreme degree around its leader, the Reverend [[Sun Myung Moon]], whom the members of the Church believe to be the Messiah.



=== Others ===

* [[est]] / Landmark Education

* [[Jehovahs Witnesses]]



== [[United States]] ==

* [[Jews for Jesus]]





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