People's Daily announces twelve characteristics of cult organizations

1. Thought control:

There is special education. Both believers and non-believers must study ideological works such as canons and doctrines. The purpose is to unify thoughts, control thoughts, and cultivate cult successors, supporters, and thugs. ;

2. Information Control:

There is special information control, all information sources are controlled, the information channels are controlled by the religious organization, and all information release must be under the control of the religious organization to prevent the breeding of other ideas, lead to believers and non-believers, and endanger the existence of the cult;

3. Demonize the outside world:

There is special propaganda, describing the outside world as a hostile and crisis-ridden world, creating resistance and fear to the outside world, cutting off believers' yearning for the outside world, and demonizing all countries, individuals, organizations and behaviors that are unfavorable to cults;

4. Mythical leaders and cult organizations:

There is special propaganda to make the leader and the cult organization a great, bright and correct model, the myth to become the hope of all believers and non-believers, and to cover up all the dirty history that is not conducive to the "bright image" of the sect;

5. Active area control:

Restrict the activity area, all believers and non-believers are not allowed to leave the area demarcated by the cult organization without authorization, from one area to another area, must be strictly approved by the cult organization to ensure that it is difficult for everyone to come into contact with different ideas;

6. Sect Control:

A cult claims that only one of its sects is supreme, other sects must be established under its approval, other sects must recognize its illegal status and follow its leadership, and ensure the uniqueness of its sect, and all other sects must be eliminated or exist in name only;

7. Survival resource control:

All natural resources, including the survival resources and occupations of believers and non-believers, are under the control of the cult. Any behavior that is not conducive to the cult will face the tragic situation of being unable to survive. From the perspective of survival, we will cut off the possibility of the cult being eliminated;

8. Forced into teaching:

Everyone was deceived in childhood, brainwashed by the cult myths weaved, forced to love cults, swore to join cults, and continuously used various survival resources to induce non-believers to join cults or believers to upgrade their sect level during the whole period of growth. Guarantee the origin and continued existence of cult members;

9. Privatization of violent institutions:

The cult must privatize the publicly owned violent organization and make it owned by the cult, use its subordinate propaganda to create various excuses to appropriate the violent organization, and use the education of its subordinates to cultivate brainwashed privatized violent organizations. A large number of meat machines have no independent thinking ability and no ability to judge right and wrong;

10. Fictional disasters to beautify the future:

The fictional outside world is a disaster, preaching that there will be chaos without the existence of cults, preaching that under the leadership of the cult leader, a bright future will surely be created, trying to cover up and suppress the dirty history and reality of cults that are getting worse and worse the truth;

11. Facts that kill living beings:

Cults must have a history of massacres of living beings and are currently persecuting living beings. In terms of persecuting living beings, the destruction of living beings is large-scale, organized, rigorous, and institutionalized. It is difficult to expose and spread these truths under the combination of various aspects, such as control of activity areas, sectarian control, control of survival resources, and privatization of violent institutions.

12. The core members of the cult are rich enough to rival the country:

The core members of the cult organization hold absolute rights and wealth, and all the means they take are ultimately aimed at ensuring the maximization of the interests of the core members of the cult and intending to enjoy this benefit permanently.