What specifically would define a group or “cult” as unsafe?
Unsafe groups or “cults” often abuse and exploit their members. This abuse may occur in the areas of finances, physical labor, child abuse and neglect, medical neglect, sexual exploitation and/or psychological and emotional abuse. Extreme examples of destructive behavior have been historically recorded in such groups as the Waco Davidians, the cult suicides of “Heaven’s Gate” and the Solar Temple of Switzerland and the suicide/murder of almost one thousand members of the Peoples Temple ordered by Jim Jones. In 1995 the Japanese cult known as Aum , the followers of Shoko Asahara, gassed the subways of Tokyo with the deadly poison Sarin–killing twelve and injuring thousands of citizens.
