{"id":281,"date":"2006-12-07T10:53:37","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homecomers.org\/weblog\/index.php\/five-signs-of-a-cult\/"},"modified":"2006-12-07T10:53:37","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T15:53:37","slug":"five-signs-of-a-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/five-signs-of-a-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Five signs of a cult"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. A strong sense of group identity and community<\/li>\n
  2. A belief that the group is somehow separate from the rest of society<\/li>\n
  3. A strong sense of group destiny and purpose<\/li>\n
  4. An unwavering adherence to the teachings of its founder, which may differ radically from the rest of society<\/li>\n
  5. A total commitment to the goals of the movement which overrides personal goals and comfort<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Are these signs true of your church?<\/p>\n

    If not, why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A strong sense of group identity and community A belief that the group is somehow separate from the rest of society A strong sense of group destiny and purpose An unwavering adherence to the teachings of its founder, which may differ radically from the rest of society A total commitment to the goals of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desperate-suggestions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homecomers.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}