(July 1, 2014 at 2:43 am)paulpablo Wrote: I was just thinking how many cults exist on the earth within the last two centuries?
I don't know the answer so no one wins a cake for guessing the right amount.
I was thinking the number must be around 100, 000 but I know it's difficult to guess this type of thing.
Bare in mind I've considered every religion to be a cult and every fractured piece of each religion to be a separate cult, for example the Sunni Muslims who believe god tells them suicide bombs are fine will be in a separate cult from the Sunni Muslims who don't believe in the use of suicide bombs, who will also be separate from the shia Muslims and the nation of Islam and so on and so on.
Is Osama bin Ladin's Sunni Muslims, who believed god told them suicide bombers were fine, but who also believed that creating fear amongst infidels with suicide bombing should be balanced with cultivation of the image of relative moderation (no cutting off heads, etc) and paying lip services to reducing civilian casualties and expressing regret for dead women and children, especially but not limited to, if the victim were Muslims of either Sunni or Shiite faiths, a separate cult from ISIS Sunni Muslims, who seem to believe suicide bombing is okay, but it is good to go out of their way to cultivate the image of a particular relish for killing civilians, using methods like crucifixions to say nothing of be headings, and the relish is especially strong where the victims were Shiites?
