Vocab Malone

So these are the most extreme cults in our midst.

But you could just define a cult as something with aberrant beliefs.

But that seems just maybe just to call it unorthodox or heterodox.

Yeah, that's more subjective at that point.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

I like your first definition better.

Yeah.

How you limit the control of information.

That's a huge element.

There's a researcher, Steve is his first name, and he does something called the BITE model, behavior control, information control, thought control, emotion control, and does a good job explaining this.

He himself was in the Moonies, the unification church, so he himself was in a cult for quite a while.

Got it.

Yeah, I know with the Hebrew Israelites, you consider that a cult, right?

So strictly speaking, theologically, they are cultic in the sense that they stray from Christian doctrine, historically speaking.

But within the large scope of Hebraism, some groups don't look very cultic.

They don't have these high control elements.

Lots of Hebrews-like groups do look more cultic.

Specifically, the ISUPK, which is the group that Captain Zazariak that you had on your show, his group is clearly cultic.

Does he run that group?