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A Poison Pill for Cults

A Poison Pill for Cults

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Christine Axsmith
May 17, 2023
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Cults use people - for making the cult money, for sex, and often both.

That’s why intelligent, educated and talented people join cults - they are recruited. People like that have skills that are useful to the group. The management philosophy of a cult is to get its members to work for as little payment as possible, while the profits stay with the cult.

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