RELIGST 2QQ3 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Internal Revenue Service, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Xenu
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What is a cult? A conspiracy theory ?
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Cult
- Means different things in different contexts
Sociology: Church, denomination, sect, cult are all terms used for different religious
organizations
- A group of like-minded people; different types of religious organizations
History: Cult refers to specific practices devoted to one deity or religious specialists/saint
- Ancient Israelite religion revolved around a sacrificial cult; sacrifice was central and
there were regulations about who could be sacrificed, who could do it, when it could be
done, etc.
Culture: Usually a perjorative term to refer to marginalized religious groups considered to be
dangerous
- There was a professor who started a lass alled ults of orth Aeria he there
was a lot of talk about these dangerous groups (i.e. moonies)
- Ted to e seletie aout hih groups e lael ults ad hih oes e gie
another name (i.e. New religious movements NRM)
TE PANTA EN CHRISTOI SYNESTEKEN; picture of McMaster code of arms
- Traslates to All thigs ohere i Christ
- McMaster university started as Christian Baptists
Rome 82 C.E. image
- Arch of Thaddeus which depicts roman soldiers carrying away the loot (i.e. Menorah)
from the Jewish temple after they destroyed it; catastrophic to Jews
- Romans were pleased that they had defeated the Jews so they built this monument
- After Jesus was crucified by Romans people associated with Him and the claims that
people were making on his behalf so Romans were getting worried about this.
Second Century Evaluations for Christianity
- There is a group, hated for their abominations, called Christians by the people. Christus,
from whom the name comes, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius
at the hands of one of our officials, Pontius Pilate.
- The Christians are a class of men given to a new and wicked superstition
Did Christianity start as a cult? The way we think of it today
- ‘oas thought so as they sa it as a threat ad a superstitio
- Christianity spread quickly to Rome, Italy, Turkey, etc
- Pliny the younger writes to emperor and talks about this problem he saw of
Christiaity sayig its spreadig eeryhere ad theres a way to stop it. People who
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were accused of being Christian would get tortured and warned. He tries to find out
hat theyre atually up too. There as this idea of people eig aialists ased on
the preaching of taking body and blood of Christ through the eucharist.
Trajan (emperor) tells him that they are not to be sought out or punished. If they are
able to prove their not Christian then they should be pardoned
The early spread of Christianity
- Constantine basically turned the Roman empire Christian. Once the Roman empire was
turned, Christians wanted to prosecute non-believers as well just as they were
prosecuted for being Christians in the first place
Difference between conspiracies and conspiracy theories
- Conspiracy is a secret plot to do something wrong/controversial/unacceptable (i.e.
actually doing something wrong)
- Conspiracy theory is literally invoking the existence of a conspiracy (i.e. suspecting that
something wrong is being done on a large scale)
- Conspiracies are almost always irrefutale eause theres alays soe type of
evidence or logical contradictions
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Document Summary
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