{"id":6032,"date":"2021-07-23T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/23\/why-do-people-join-and-stay-in-cults\/"},"modified":"2022-10-26T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T17:05:49","slug":"why-do-people-join-and-stay-in-cults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/23\/why-do-people-join-and-stay-in-cults\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Join (and Stay in) Cults?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RECOGNIZING AND RESISTING CULTS (Part 3)<br \/>\nOn March 17th of every year, Ugandan Christians are reminded of the Kanungu cult tragedy, which took nearly 1,000 lives. Why do people join cults? And why would you want to be part of a religious group that could take away your very life? Rodgers Atwebembeire sheds light from Scripture.<\/p>\n<p>www.ACFAR.org<\/p>\n<p>Reposted by kind permission of The Gospel Coalition\u2014Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECOGNIZING AND RESISTING CULTS (Part 3) On March 17th of every year, Ugandan Christians are reminded of the Kanungu cult tragedy, which took nearly 1,000 lives. Why do people join cults? And why would you want to be part of a religious group that could take away your very life? Rodgers Atwebembeire sheds light from&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/23\/why-do-people-join-and-stay-in-cults\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,202],"tags":[116,117],"class_list":["post-6032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-video","tag-discernment","tag-discipleship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6168,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions\/6168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acfar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}