IC Public Workstation-How to Become a Cult LeaderThe Social Psychology of Groups知识讲稿.ppt

How to Become a Cult Leader:The Social Psychology of Groups /sundae_meng Create Your Own Social Reality Eliminate all sources of information except that provided by the cult. Remote area No mass media Limited contact with people outside the organization /sundae_meng Create Your Own Social Reality Provide a cult’s eye view of the world “Shirley Phelps-Roper, the attorney for the Westboro Baptist Church, explained that Rogers, as a Presbyterian minister with a television program, had a responsibility to comment on the issue. By not doing so, she explained that he was helping to promote homosexuality, which the group says falls into the category of ‘whoremongery and adultery, which will damn the soul forever in hell.’ She added that the support some Americans have given to homosexuals was the reason behind tragedies including the Sept. 11 attacks, the crash of the NASA shuttle Colombia (sic), and the nightclub fire in Rhode Island. “‘You dont get to pretend to decide what form God takes,’ Phelps-Roper said. ‘Hes the God who could have stopped the shuttle crash, the nightclub fire, but instead he sent those things. This country has forgotten God and effectively flipped him off, and Fred Rogers is in part responsible.’ -- Daily Illini, March 20, 2003 /sundae_meng Create Your Own Social Reality Regarding the Sept 11th attacks, Jerry Falwell said on the 700 Club: [T]he pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America, Falwell continued, I point the finger in their face and say you helped this happen. -- ABC News, Sept 14, 2001 Throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, he said. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little in