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This article is biased

I just happened upon it, and found it extremely one-sided: from the article itself and this discussion page, the article is clearly one person's attempt to smear and destroy the concept of 'cult' to eliminate it as a threat to their own religious beliefs. Furthermore, by linking to this from other articles, the credibility of those articles is severely compromised, nullifying the painstaking efforts of many people at presenting knowledge backed by hard facts and/or careful thought -- both of which are glaringly missing in this article. (— Preceding comment added by 17:06, 16 June 2005‎ 198.147.225.60) (tag added by 108.83.116.234 (talk) 00:50, 4 November 2022 (UTC))[reply]

I agree with this editor. In reading this article, it seemed to be very strongly that the tone of this article inappropriately advocated one side of the debate (the person who feels that the label "cult" threatens their religion) over the other, and the article needs a major rewrite with respect to its tone. --Kuzaar^-T-C- 13:46, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is a definition for cults, the BITE model, which is a pretty nice way of encapsulating it and showing how they work, no matter the religion or beliefs, also applying to politics and other subjects. I am sure the author did it on ill intent, but since the article is still biased in 2022, I highly doubt someone will do something, perhaps the bias comes from the original author and somehow it cannot be changed. In the end, I agree with you, the person did it because they felt threatened somehow. Gabriel Gomes Almeida (talk) 23:49, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, I read this and it sounds like it was edited by a cult member in order to discourage deprogramming and even labelling cults as such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.42.90.78 (talk) 07:19, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely agreed. This article is garbage, and needs to be comprehensively rewritten or removed altogeher. 125.253.30.206 (talk) 10:25, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs corrected by credentialed professionals and replaced immediately. 75.162.179.15 (talk) 16:14, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This article was written 21 years ago by a weird religious conservative looking to shape thought around the response to new religious movements and who regularly removed content incompatible with his perspective for 11 years, and 10 years later most of the base he set up has been maintained in essentially the same shape it was then. It's past time for an overhaul by someone with expertise on the subject. Rurfs (talk) 09:34, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]