With it being the 30th year anniversary of Jamestown Massacre questions still are being asked about this subject. The Jamestown Massacre is when spiritual leader Jim Jones the leader of the People’s Temple cult lead over the mass suicide of over 900 members of People’s Temple cult.
Also with the recent death of three people at the attendance of a spiritual warrior program at an Arizona resort one has to question what are the real purpose of these groups. Many believe these groups are sects.
A sect is any group, party, or faction united by a specific doctrine or under a doctrinal leader. People believe that people join these groups for a sense of belonging. Some also believe many the people after joining are brainwashed.
So I was wondering does anybody feel as though some of the organizations on college campuses for example fraternities, sororities, football team act in this demeanor?
-KB
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I think that most people join fraternities, that are some type of a cult just for popularity without knowing the dangers that they are about to face,just because the want to become apart of something that they think that will make them feel important and or some one special.
ReplyDeleteWilliam A.Stone
I believe that people do join a cult or sect in hopes of trying to find themselves or having something to believe in. However, I would not venture out to say that a fraternity or soroity is a cult or sect. Cults or sects usually does not have a national affiliation. Fraternities and soroities, especially the Black ones, are apart of a group, known as the National Pan-Helenic Council, which link the Divine 9 together on a larger scale. Different extra-curricular activities that are offered by colleges are there to provide growth and teamwork, along with committment. To say that sports, fraternities and soroities are sects or cults is similar to saying that a job that instills their values and concepts within an employee are cults or sects. When it comes to joining a fraternity or soroity, it is not about popularity, it is about what can you contribute to the group and what is that you can do as a person that will allow you to make an imprint in that organization. Similar to Ralph Waldo Emerson's viewpoint of Self-Reliance.
ReplyDeleteChantez Ford