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Interesting article on cults, religion & Scientology:

"It should be no surprise that in religious countries like the U.S. which, despite experiencing a minor decline in this regard in recent years,[11] cults enjoy a relatively high degree of success. In 1982, Dr Singer estimated the number of active cults in the U.S to be around 3,000.[12] Further, Berkley psychologist Margaret Singer estimated that the number of active cults in the U.S rose in 2005 to around 5,000.[13] This success may be, at least in part, attributed to the separation of church and state, which created a free market approach to religion, but a more likely reason for the proliferation of cults in the U.S. might be better explained by the abundance of “believers” who have a pre-existing mindset for belief-adherence – people who have been indoctrinated by their parents by way of various ‘non-evidential’ forms of instruction. The impact of religious indoctrination upon children was recently studied by researchers at Boston University, who found that children raised within religious households are less able to distinguish between fact and fiction than children raised by parents who employ more rational, evidence-based forms of teaching.[14] The researchers concluded: ‘The findings show that the way that children differentiate among genres [factual vs fictional] varies markedly depending on whether they have had a predominantly secular upbringing or religious or exposure to religion, through their family, their school or both. By implication, the environment in which children are raised has an important influence on the way they process and categorize the narratives that they encounter’.[15]"

Understatement of the year.