Why Do People Join A Cult

A person’s thoughts, behaviors and emotions will be manipulated once they have joined a cult; the dangers of cults have become severe over the past years and have caused thousands of deaths due to the influence of cults members and leaders. Cults are able to gain members, due the fact that people in actuality do not know it is a cult they are joining. After joining a cult, some people still do not even understand that they are actually in a cult. Cults are something a person may read about or see on TV, but to have the actuality of knowing that a person has joined a group is shocking. It is something that an individual would think, that could not happen to them. Over the past decades there have been several horrific events that have caused deaths to hundreds of Americans. The causes of their deaths were the effects of their leaders, who the followers once trusted. Most people do not even know what a cult exactly is, “According to the book, “Leaders and Followers” a cult is a group that follows a dominate leader who claims to be
This is because “…Young people are easy targets for cults because they often lack the skills necessary to detect when someone is lying to them” Ms. Groenveld explain (Nolan 2). But when it comes down to it, everyone can be a potential target for the recruitment of a cult. Reason being, everyone no matter how old a person is, whether they are a male or female, everyone is looking for the same kinds of things. Someone to listen to problems, to talk to, to help get through a death or break up, this is just part of being human. Therefore this makes the Love Bombing technique easier to use on people (Schwartz 6). A former cult member emphasizes, while being in the group, the group was gradually stripping her of herself, once being in such group, a person no longer thinks for themselves. Everything about a person is controlled; group leaders have perfected this skill, therefore making a successful cult (Schwartz