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The book relates the development of language to the development of myths, religions, and cultic practices in world cultures. Allegro argues, through etymology, that the roots of Christianity, and many other religions, lay in fertility cults, and that cult practices, such as ingesting visionary plants to perceive the mind of God, persisted into the early Christian era, and to some unspecified ...
Allegro's book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) argued that Christianity began as a shamanistic cult. In his books The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (1979), Allegro put forward the theory that stories of early Christianity originated in an Essene clandestine cult centred around the use of ...
A 'Holy Meeting' The Perennialist ideas in Griffiths' research are drawn from Forgotten Truth, a book published in 1976.Written by a religious studies professor named Huston Smith, the author was ...
The book received widespread criticism from the academic community: numerous rebuttals were published, [10] and other members of the team pointed out the problems with Allegro's arguments. [9] Randall Price called Allegro "the father of scroll sensationalists" for his interpretations of the scrolls. [ 11 ]
Critics and former cult members, too, could help give you a reality check. For religious cults, "seek out a seminary-trained theologian who you can discuss what the teachings are."
Ryan was arrested in 1985 after reports and a criminal investigation indicated that he had abused and killed five-year-old Luke Stice and later killed fellow group member James Thimm (age 25) after he had tortured the latter for several days, beating him, whipping him, then shooting off his fingertips, skinning him alive, breaking his legs, and ...
A trans-woman has spoken for the first time of how she escaped an evil cult led by her father who kidnapped and raped fellow members. Yaya DeCloud, 42, was born as a male on December 14, 1981.
The movement's way of life has led to accusations by detractors that it is a cult, while supporters would say that the inclusion of the group in "cult" lists is part of the anti-cult movement or Christian countercult movement, which denominates any group a "cult" that does not fit the anti-cult group's doctrine or practice.