Years ago there was a Christian group in a city just south of here. Members claimed that they believed everything the Bible taught - but that was all immaterial. Theirs was a group where differences were obliterated, will was imposed, and space was not left for independent judgment. That group was a cult - no matter that it studied the Bible, said Jesus is Lord, or prayed the Lord s Prayer. In a cult, there is fusion.
Companionship yields to bondage.
Every one is so connected that individuality is lost and group conformity reigns. When that degree of fusion is reached, the leader of a cult nation can say, Put six million Jews to death, and their orders will be followed. Or when the leader of Heaven s Gate says, Drink this, so that your spirit may leave your body behind, thirty-eight others will say, Yes, because they no longer have a separate and strong will of their own. What can we do for our children so that cults don t offer such great attraction to them. Love them unconditionally.