Are the Brahma Kumaris a destructive End of the World Cult?
Posted: 26 Jan 2010
Following a request made, in this topic, and from Dr. Robert J. Lifton's common properties of potentially destructive and dangerous cults ...
- The cult is authoritarian in its power structure. The leader is regarded as the supreme authority.
The cult's leaders tend to be charismatic, determined, and domineering. They persuade followers to drop their families, jobs, careers, and friends to follow them. They then take over control of their followers' possessions, money, lives.
The cult's leaders are self-appointed, messianic persons who claim to have a special mission in life.
The cult's leaders center the veneration of members upon themselves.
The cult tends to be totalitarian in its control of the behavior of its members.
The cult tends to have a double set of ethics.
The cult has basically only two purposes, recruiting new members and fund-raising.
The cult appears to be innovative and exclusive.