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why are occults so evil? why would they do stuff like this?
I'm Catholic/Christian (not sure the difference) and I've heard of these evil cults, who worship devils and help demons, the devil, and other evil spirits to harass innocent GOOD people such as Jews, Christians and Catholics, and unsuspecting atheists who I don't support but are most vulnerable since they don't even think it exsists so don't know that they need to tell a preist, and I've heard a group of occult practicers have kidnapped 200 girls from school and started selling them for sex. How horrible! Despicable, evil runts! Why? They isolate and torture they're children, raising them without running water or electricity, never letting them leave, poor tortured helpless children, I hope they run away! And they teach them you'll go to hell if you masturbate or have sex! Plain awful! They do unspeakably evil, horrible thing and have the nerve to call Christians and Catholics evil, those who are happy, peaceful and loving, and the Jews who they seem to hate and torture the most, but are actually loyal: always having each other's back, rich and smart with money, and have great education. They should be the one being killed and suffering, those hideous cults! God bless those who suffer from they're evilness.
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I don't know a heap about cults and occults, I try to stay away from them, however to answer your question...
Evil things happen because our world is fallen. God hates Evil and loves justice, which is why he sent his one and only Son to die, so that we can live eternally... But until Jesus comes back to earth, sin and evil will be present.
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Men in general tend to be leaders. They also tend to be violent. Therefore, the leaders of many groups are violent.
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Personally I believe we have to acknowledge that the despicable, deplorable acts of man are just that. The conscious, deliberate acts of mortal humans. Having no religion I do not subscribe to the idea of anonymous/abstract 'evil' as the cause, using man as it's 'tool'. Those who claim to be in leauge with dark and evil forces which either force them or 'permit' them to carry out such despicable acts I believe are delusory. And dangerous. And I think they are the same 'despicable, evil runts' you do. The 200 girls? Your post hits the nail on the head, (quote) "and started SELLING them for sex". It was money behind this, not abstract 'evil'. Just like it's money and greed for it behind all organised prostitution, and drug dealing, and gun-running etc. Forcing unwanted and/or depraved sexual acts and human rights violations are again the acts of man. Those who believe they can step outside the conventions and laws of society which sound people have established and fought to preserve since the emergence of man. It disgusts me too. We only differ in our opinion of what's driving it. I believe the responsibilty and accontability starts and ends with man. Not 'forces of good and evil' being abroad in the world. Too many attrocities have been committed in the name of religion, and using belief systems as the excuse for me to accept any of them...but I acknowledge that this is purely MY opinion and choice. I do not have your 'faith' but I agree totally with your obseravtions and feelings.
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Well, there's a complex question.
First, a "cult" is not the same thing as "the occult". A cult is a small religion, or even a branch or offshoot of another religion. The veneration of some particular saint can be called the "cult" of that saint, especially if its associated with special rituals and stuff.
"Occult" means "hidden", its about religions or spiritual stuff that's hidden from the masses of the uninitiated.
The dudes in Africa who kidnapped the girls, well, there's a few things you have wrong.
They are not occult, they are muslims. Islam is one of the four biggest religions n the world. These guys, however, are a small(ish) sect. I don't know if you'd call them a "cult" or not.
They are called "Boko Haram", which means "school is forbidden". They are africans who believe that white man's education system is from the devil. (And there are plenty of christians in America who believe the same thing, especially when schools start teaching evolution).
They are not selling the girls "for sex", in the sense of prostituting them, they are selling them into marriage. They believe that a girl should not be getting an education and filling her head with secular ideas, but that she should be decently married to a nice muslim man and having babies. Once again - there's plenty of christians in america who basically think the same thing.
And the one thing that everyone is ignoring is that these same people have been killing boys who go to school for years. They have been killing boys and letting the girls go - but no-one cared until it's like "OMG! Teh Sex!".
As for "raising them without running water or electricity" - they are in Africa. Just about no-one has running water or electricity. They are poor. It's not something special they are doing just to be mean.
Hope this helps.
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Well, the simple answer is - that although some people are evil and do harm to others - most people who are in occult faiths or practitioners aren't and don't. Also, occult and 'cult' are two completely different things. The word cult has many different definitions in different fields of study. Many occult beliefs are not cults in any sense of the word - and many Christian have been, by definition, cults.
The vast, vast, majority of people who are followers of one of the many occult traditions or belief systems (likes Gnosticism, Hermeticism or Wicca and other neopagan traditions) don't worship demons or evil spirits at all, and would actually be very offended by hearing their beliefs misrepresented in that way.
Just the same way you'd be offended if I said Christians all bombed abortion clinics, or beat their wives and children because they bible says they can. Of course there are a few Christians who do hateful and violent things because they interpret their faith as demanding those violent or hateful acts, but the vast, vast, vast majority of Christians don't bomb the people they disagree with, or beat women and children just because some passages in the bible say it's okay.
It's the same thing for literally, every other religion on the planet, even the ones you've been told are are 'evil'. Even Satanists, don't actually wish harm or evil done to other people as part of their religion. They just have a very, very different philosophy and perspective on God, and the idea of a devil, than you do.
Some crazy violent people may use occult faiths or practices as excuses or as part of being evil to others (just like some Christians have used their faith or practices to be evil to others). Just because some crazy, violent people are followers of the occult doesn't mean all people who embrace the occult are evil.
Frankly, you need to stop so easily believing the things you read - nearly every topic you ever come across deserves more investigation than what you've shown here. Of course torturing and kidnapping people is horrible! There were lots of stories about occults and devil worship in the 1980s and almost every horrible news story turned out to be completely made up! Even if something horrible really did happen, often, religion and faith aren't the core motivation.
If what you have been reading about is Boko Haram in Nigeria, those aren't devil worshippers at all. Those are Islamists extremists, and Islam has many of the same roots and holy texts that Christianity and Judaism have. Many Muslims, just like many Jews believe that the Christian, Jewish and Muslim 'God' are the same entity - just that the other two religions got a lot of the important details wrong. Members of Boko Haram believe in God, and believe that God doesn't want women educated, but as obedient wives. They also want to trade those girls they kidnapped for the members of their group that the government has caught, and put in jail. That whole situation in Nigeria has to do with religious extremists who worship God - not the devil - and political power and terrorism. It has absolutely nothing at all to do with the occult.
People aren't as usually as simple as good and evil, and your generalizations about people of different faiths - both bad and good generalizations - are just stereotypes and myths. Some stereotypes (like the idea that all occult has to do with demons or the devil) are very, very wrong, very hurtful and frankly, even based in hatred. Christianity in particular has a long history of hatred and discrimination against pagans and other people who were interested in the occult and claimed they were evil and devil worshippers even when they weren't. Lots of people were killed because of those false stereotypes. You should approach other faiths, even those that seem to be in opposition to yours, with respect and remember that damn near everyone - even people you utterly disagree with - are trying to be a good people. Even the members of Boko Haram - who are doing trule awful, horrible things and should absolutely be stopped - most of them probably do feel in their hearts that they are doing the right thing for others. The truly evil people out there come in all stripes and all religions. No one group is immune to having crazy, evil people pervert their beliefs for power and violence.
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