CULTS
SCIENTOLOGY
THE UNIFICATION CHURCH
WICCA
OOO, CONTROVERSY
100
This is the most widely used term for any “theologically deviant” religious group “that denied essential Christian beliefs such as the Trinity and the divinity of Christ.”
What is a cult?
100
This is the term Scientologists use to describe themselves.
What are Thetans?
100
This is the term critics use to describe members of the Unification Church.
What are moonies?
100
Members of the Wiccan Church are called this.
What are witches?
100
This wife of Tom Cruise recently left the Church of Scientology.
Who is Katie Holmes?
200
This is the new title given to religions that deviate from basic Christian/Jewish or other orthodox religions.
What is "New Religons."
200
These are memories and events from your former lives that cause you psychosomatic stress.
What are engrams?
200
This is what members of the Unification Church believe their leader was sent to be.
What is the messiah?
200
Wiccan witches believe that casting these can help you find love or protect you from psychic vampires.
What are spells?
200
It was in this city that witches were prosecuted in the 1690s.
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
300
These people determined that the term "cult" is too derogatory a label to use to describe deviant religions.
Who are scholars or cultists?
300
This is the tool Scientologists use to identify their engrams and the progress of their growth as Scientologists.
What is an e-meter?
300
This is the main religious text of the Unification Church.
What is "The Divine Principle?"
300
Most Wiccan ceremonies are celebrated in this shape believed to signify unity.
What is a circle?
300
This is the period of time in which witches promise to stay faithful to their partner.
What is "until love no longer lasts"?
400
This is the number of Americans estimated to have been involved in a cult.
What is 5-7 million?
400
This is the process of purging yourself of stress-causing engrams.
What is auditing?
400
This leader of the Unification Church is believed be the Christ or messiah.
Who is Reverend Sun Myung Moon?
400
This higher power is believed by witches to be present in people, places, things, animals, and ancestors.
What is "The Divine."
400
There is a Wiccan spell said to protect you from psychic these.
What are vampires?
500
This is the decade in which scholars decided that using the term "new religions" or "new religious movements" was more appropriate than labeling deviant religions "cults."
What is the 1970s?
500
This is the man who founded Scientology.
Who is Lafayette Ronald Hubbard?
500
These are couples picked by Reverend Sun Myung Moon from pictures believed to be perfect matches.
What are "true families?"
500
Most Wiccan ceremonies are practiced on these days.
What are the eight sabbats?
500
This person is claimed to be a tuna by Xavier Morales.
Who is Mrs. Newman?