What is a Sect? What if they call you a cult for reading the Bible?

W związku z dużym napływem nowych czytelników, przypominam mój tekst z przed 3 lat dotyczący definicji sekty. Przypominam ponieważ pierwsze co spotyka narodzonych na nowo czy przebudzonych jest określenie ich przez ich rodziny per „sekta”. Wystarczy czytać Biblię i już się jest sektą.

 

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Niedawno pewna znajoma, czytająca mego bloga codziennie, powiedziała mi w nerwach „wy jesteście sektą”. Zapytałem „dlaczego”. Otrzymałem odpowiedź „bo mówicie o duchu izebel”. Pomijając absurdalność i nielogiczność tego stwierdzenia dodam, iż osoba ta świetnie prezentuje ducha Izebel. Ma destrukcyjne zapędy i niszczy wszystko co jest na jej drodze, a sama jest pozbawiona uczuć. Wszystko jest ok, dopóki nie umieściłem tłumaczenia o duchu Izebel. To mnie tylko utwierdza, że dobrze czynię umieszczając analizy ducha Jezebel. Z ust takiej osoby, o której nie chcę się rozpisywać, jest to zachowanie niczym w programie 'mamy cię”, tudzież zgodnie z powiedzeniem uderz w stół a nożyce się otworzą”.

 

Coming to the topic. It is often enough to say something about the Bible and we are already called a sect, like a drunken Lesiu collecting garbage on the beach at the convention in Leba.

Ok, so let's take a factual approach to the object of study and operationalize the concepts.

 

A religious studies approach Because through such we can mainly explore:

„Sekta to grupa czy ruch religijny, wyodrębniony z jakiejś religii lub związek wyznaniowy, który oderwał się od któregoś z kościołów czy wspólnot religijnych i przyjął własne zasady doktrynalne, kultyczne oraz struktury organizacyjne..”

1) We are not a denomination and that is beautiful because the first apostles were not either.

2) We have not broken away from any particular church because rather we are a collection of various former religions.

3. we don't have organizational structures.

4: We don't have a building.

 

Capturing definitions from the MSWIA report

DEFINITION FROM MSWIA REPORT

A sect can be considered any group that, while having a strongly developed power structure, is at the same time characterized by a significant divergence of declared and realized goals and the concealment of norms that significantly regulate the lives of its members; that violates basic human rights and the rules of social coexistence, and that has a destructive impact on its members, sympathizers, families and society.

1. there is no power structure in our country

2. we don't have stated goals

3. we have no hidden standards because we are not any organized group.

4. we don't regulate the family life of the members. Everyone does what they want to do. We haven't even seen each other in the vast majority.

DEFINITION OF AN ANTI-PSYCHOMANIPULATION CENTER

A sect is a group in which there is both a high level of totalism (control of members' lives) and psychomanipulation.

 

I don't control your life and you don't control mine. I don't know what kind of partners you have. Zero control and therefore zero psychomanipulation.

 

Summary:

 

It doesn't really matter to the average person whether a group can be called a cult or not. If it is a threat, then calling it a sect will not change anything.

Autor niniejszego artykułu nie uważa, jakoby trzeba było wyraz „sekta” wykreślić z języka polskiego, nie jest również zwolennikiem tworzenia jednej definicji dla wszystkich. Po prostu doświadczenie pokazuje, że taka definicja nie jest możliwa do stworzenia przy tak różnorodnych sposobach podejścia do problemu.

 

source: http://www.psychomanipulacja.pl/podstawy/czym-sa-sekty.htm

 

 

The Catholic view

„Opoka” – laboratorium wiary i kultury

The term sect is not applied today to churches or Christian communities Nor to the great non-Christian religions. So what are sects? How to define them? What position does the Catholic Church take towards them? Are sects a threat to the Church? Can you explain the relative success they enjoy in the modern world? Sects or new religious movements In Christian churches, Jesus is considered to be God and the SaviorThey believe in the Trinity as God. If Jehovah's Witnesses therefore do not confess the Trinity and even ridicule it, they are not a Church for us, but a sect. We have the right to judge this, to defend our identity as the Church. If someone comes after two thousand years and says that he is the Church, we verify him within our internal system of values and say: this is not the Church, that is a sect. „Opoka” – laboratorium wiary i kultury If: the group leader's power is unlimited; there is a heavy emphasis on hoarding money; the individual has no right to resign from membership; elements of doctrine sound different to begin with; the group makes it difficult for its members to contact their families; there is an obligation to form families within the group; there is a restriction on the flow of information from the world; an attitude of hostility to the world is promoted; the group is hostile to non-religious education then you are probably dealing with a destructive sect

source: http://www.opoka.org.pl/varia/sekty/#

Thus, even in the Catholic view, we meet all the criteria of a Christian community, but at the same time we do not fit into the canon of a sect as understood by the KRK.

 

Sects are also characterized by a strong non-negotiable leadership. And here we also refute this, because our leader is Jesus, and I only provide a virtual space for discussion by posting material from Pentecostals, Adventists, Baptists and sometimes from the Catholic Church, such as the conversion testimony of a DJ and a former karateka.

In fact, my person is often under fire (a recent example of hell), which is not typical of uncritical sectarian leadership.

 

From now on, if someone accuses you that you are from a cult, let him educate himself and don't talk nonsense, because a first-grader is more capable of logical understanding of a given definition than someone who shoots accusatory bullets. Someone who is accusing us in this way is eight-timing himself in his ignorance.

To sum up. No matter how you look at it, you cannot classify us as a sect, much less pigeonhole us.

 

ps strangely enough as I was typing this, my browser shut down a few times.