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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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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.


===Jehovah's Witnesses===

Throughout their history, many have found the doctrines, beliefs, and practices of the [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] controversial. Responses have included mob action; government oppression, including being targeted in the [[Holocaust]] and widespread criticism from Christians of other denominations. Such criticism has become an entire genre with the advent of the Web. Unlike other differing Christian denominations, those Christians who are not Jehovah's Witnesses do not consider them to be a Christian organization because of the significant differences in beliefs. Instead, they label the organization as a [[cult]]. 
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* [[est]] / Landmark Education
* [[Jehovahs Witnesses]]
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* The [[Church of the SubGenius]] has made numerous attempts to be included on lists of cults and controversial religious movements.  This organization is widely seen as a humorous [[parody]] of religious cults, though members of the organization vehemently deny this; they state that while they are seen as a "joke desguised as a religion," in actuality they are a "religion disguised as a joke."