Are all so-called “cults” unsafe and destructive?
No. Just because a group is “cultic” and its adherents are focused on unusual leaders and/or ideas is no reason to call them unsafe or destructive. There are groups centered on seemingly strange spiritualists, radical political concepts, the supposed power of crystals, UFO’s, witchcraft or “Satanism”–that may appear eccentric, but most often don’t harm anyone. An unsafe or destructive group is not defined by what it believes, but by what it does. That is–the behavior that causes harm and injury to the members of the group and/or others in society.
