Cultism

Cultism refers to the ideological tendency towards cults, the practices and devotions of a cult. Cults are usually defined in some sort of way as being organisations which exert an unhealthy and abusive amount of control over their members.

History
Cultism as we know it and the term emerged in 1617, as a way of describing religious cults, but as it is described, it emerged between the years 1829 and 1920. Something similar to cults has existed since antiquity, especially in ancient tribes and societies. An example could be the followers of Pythagoras, known for advancing mathematics and the execution of Hippasus of Metapontum, a mathematician known for discovering the existence of irrational numbers.

Cultivation
The term 'cult' is a cognate of the term 'cultivation'. In the broadest and non-negative sense a cult is any group who participate in cultivation of something, with that thing being seen as holy by the members of the group. This meaning of the word is used by the Roman Catholic and  Eastern Orthodox churches to describe the public veneration of saints.

This meaning of the word 'cult' isn't really what people think when think of 'cults' and one shouldn't conflate this meaning with other meaning.

B.I.T.E. model
B.I.T.E. is an acronym for the four characteristics which according to the mental health counselor define what a cult is. The B.I.T.E. model can generally be said to be what most people think when they think of the word 'cult'.

B.I.T.E. stands for


 * Behaviour control: The organisation takes control over its members' physical activity.
 * Information control: The organisation takes control over its members' source of information.
 * Thought control: The organisation takes control what its members can and cannot think.
 * Emotional control: The organisation takes control over what its members can and cannot feel.

Cult of Personality
Another meaning of the term 'cult' is found within the term 'cult of personality', which is a practice utilized predominantly by autocratic political regimes. The term means worship of a certain individual (usually the current ruler or one of the founders of the regime). Some of the most well-known cults of personality are:
 * [[File:Argentina.png]] Juan Perón [[File:Pron.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-China.png]] Mao Zedong [[File:Mao.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Benito Mussolini [[File:Classfash.png]]
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] Adolf Hitler [[File:Hitler.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-North Korea.png]] Kim Il-sung [[File:Juche.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] Vladimir Lenin [[File:orthlen.png]]
 * [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] Joseph Stalin [[File:Stalin.png]]
 * [[File:Ottoman.png]] Mustafa Kemal Atatürk [[File:Kemal.png]]

Racist cults
Ku Klux Klan

Terrorist cults

 * [[File:Cball-Isis.png]] Islamic State of Iraq and Levant
 * [[File:Cball-Taliban.png]] Taliban
 * [[File:Aleph.png]] Aum Shinrikyo
 * [[File:Mlmg.png]] Shining Path
 * [[File:LRA.png]] Lord's Resistance Army

Political cults
A political cult is a cult with a primary interest on an ideology or a certain political leader and are usually holding extremist beliefs on both left and right. Notable political cults are:
 * [[File:Stalin.png]] Stalinism
 * [[File:Fash.png]] Fascism
 * [[File:Nazi.png]] National Socialism
 * [[File:Juche.png]] Juche
 * [[File:Obj.png]] Objectivism
 * [[File:Putin.png]] Putinism
 * [[File:Altr.png]] Alt-Right
 * [[File:Trumpism.png]] Trumpism ([[File:QAnonism.png]] QAnon)

[[File:VolGeno.png]] Collective suicide/Destructive cults [[File:VHMent.png]]
Scientology

Cults (To Christians)
Unification Church Mormons Shincheonji

Sex cult
W.I.P

[[File:Falun_Gong_Theo.png]] Falun Gong
W.I.P

[[File:EasternLightning.png]] Eastern Lightning
W.I.P

[[File:Scientheo.png]] Scientology
W.I.P

[[File:LaRouche.png]] LaRouche movement
W.I.P

[[File:Natcon.png]] Unification Church
W.I.P

Personality
Weird and not to be let around kids. Seriously, don't do let him around them. Wait, this isn't Epsteinism…

How to Draw
Cultism flag.png


 * Draw a ball
 * Color it with very dark red
 * Draw an eye in the middle
 * Inside the eye, draw a big X
 * Draw the symbol ✨ glow, only black and in the middle of the symbol, draw a white circle.
 * Draw two horns and you're done.

Blessed

 * [[File:Satan.png]] Satanic Theocracy - Diddle them kids.   WAIT WHAT??? 
 * [[File:Plutocrat.png]] Plutocracy - Multilevel marketing is based!
 * [[File:Auto.png]] Autocracy - Praise [Insert leader]!
 * [[File:Totalitarian.png]] Totalitarianism - Sometimes my system is used by him.
 * [[File:Senatorialism (Tentacles).png]] Senatorialism - Praise be to the Old Gods!
 * [[File:Isolation.png]] Isolationism - The outside world will never understand us, it is best that we stay separate.
 * [[File:Urb.png]] Urbism - Finally a place where we can be left alone.
 * [[File:KKKf.png]] White Nationalism - A.K.I.A
 * [[File:OOTS.png]] Death Worship - C'mon drink the Kool Aid Flavor Aid.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Trumpism.png]] Trumpism - I like your supporters, but why do you call the [[File:KKKf.png]] KKK disgusting?
 * [[File:MLM.png]] Marxism–Leninism–Maoism - The other kind of MLM, also based! Denies he's me and pretends to hate me, though.
 * [[File:Antijap.png]] Anti-Japaneseism - I like your idea of overthrowing the Japanese government. It's just my methods are a little more "direct" Some of you guys are alright though, don't go to the subway tommorow.
 * [[File:PagTheo.png]] Pagan Theocracy - I like you, your praxis and your tales, but you don't go far enough. Why just sacrifice animals in the occasional ritual blood sacrifice when you could mass-sacrifice thousands. (But your Aztec counter-parts were my greatest inspiration.)
 * [[File:Cdem.png]] Christian Democracy - I do occasionally adopt your religion, but Jesus Christ some of you absolutely despise us!

Foes

 * [[File:Christy.png]] [[File:JewTheo.png]] [[File:Muslim 2.png]] [[File:Hind.png]] [[File:Bud.png]] Theocracies - Ew, organized religions with no religious freedom.
 * [[File:Dengf.png]] Dengism - OK I'm a cult, and? Aren't we different? We both like brainwashing!
 * [[File:StateathFedora.png]] State Atheism - Really hate me.

Further Information

 * Cult
 * Cult (religious practice)
 * List of new religious movements
 * Governmental lists of cults and sects
 * BITE model for determining cults

Notable Cults

 * [[File:Scientheo.png]] Scientology
 * L. Ron Hubbard
 * Tom Cruise
 * Beck (left in 2019)
 * List of Scientologists
 * Charles Taze Russel
 * [[File:Falun Gong Theo.png]] Falun Gong
 * Li Hongzhi
 * Shen Yun
 * Anastasia Lin
 * The Epoch Times
 * NTD Television
 * China Uncensored
 * [[File:EasternLightning.png]] Eastern Lightning
 * Unification Church
 * Sun Myung Moon
 * [[File:Heaven's Gate.png]] Heaven's Gate
 * [[File:Order Of Nine Angles.png]] Order of Nine Angles
 * [[File:Martinism.png]] Martinist Order
 * Gérard Encausse
 * [[File:Black Islamism.png]] Nation of Islam
 * Elijah Muhammad
 * Wallace Fard Muhammad
 * Louis Farrakhan
 * Malcolm X (Left in 1964)
 * [[File:JOS.png]] Joy of Satan
 * [[File:Aleph.png]] Aum Shinrikyo
 * [[File:QAnonism.png]] QAnon
 * Peoples Temple
 * Jim Jones
 * [[File:Cball-Guyana.png]] Jonestown
 * [[File:LaRouche.png]] LaRouche Movement
 * [[File:ColoniaDignidad.png]] Colonia Dignidad
 * Paul Schäfer
 * [[File:Mansonism.png]] Manson Family
 * [[File:Mansonism.png]] Charles Manson
 * [[File:EcoTerrorist.png]] Sandra Good
 * [[File:Blackzio.png]] Black Hebrew Israelites
 * William Saunders Crowdy
 * Frank Cherry
 * Kodak Black
 * Westboro Baptist Church (not really a cult, but their actions are quite cult-like)