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Odds and Ends => Etcetera => Topic started by: Ganieda on January 31, 2008, 08:05:24 am
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I thought you might find this a handy search tool.
CounterCultSearch.com
As a service for those who are looking for information about (religious) cults, Apologetics Index has set up CounterCultSearch.com.
This dedicated search engine allows you to search across websites and blogs dedicated to cult research, exit counseling and news about cults.
Give it a try:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/655-counter-cult-search-engine (http://www.apologeticsindex.org/655-counter-cult-search-engine)
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Not so much... It's an Evangelical Christian site:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/about.html
Apologetics Index (AI) is an online Christian ministry with a two-fold purpose:
* to provide Christians with apologetics research resources on cults, sects, other religious movements, doctrines and practices, and
* to help non-Christians find relevant information on the same subjects.
The publishers operate from an evangelical, Christian point of view.
Though they claim to also serve non-Evangelicals, what I'm seeing there looks pretty ignorant and biased, such as this:
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/w04.html
A threatening storm is brewing on the religious horizon: the winds of occultism are blowing ever more strongly across the land. In the past two to three decades, America and much of Western Europe have seen a resurgence of paganism and witchcraft. Paganism is attempting a resurrection from the dead, a revival of the old gods and goddesses of pre-Christian polytheistic nature religions and mystery cults (e.g., Celtic, Norse, Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and other traditions of the Western world). Additionally, Sumerian mythologies, extant tribal religions (e.g., Native American religions and shamanism), new religions largely inspired by science fiction and fantasy, and amalgamations of diverse occultic traditions join the list as well. Astaroth, Diana, Hecate, Cernunnos, Osiris, Pan, and others are being invoked anew, feeding an intoxicating discovery of and journey into a universe inhabited with gods and goddesses.
(emphasis mine)
Not recommended.