{"id":5786,"date":"2014-12-07T20:25:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T19:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2022-12-30T14:57:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T13:57:15","slug":"david-sloan-wilson-and-howard-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/david-sloan-wilson-and-howard-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"David Sloan Wilson and Howard Bloom on cults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Continuing the series where I post the backlog from my drafts folder. This one is from June 2009 ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>David Sloan Wilson &amp; Howard Bloom both argue cults can be good including Scientology.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A religion that makes Hollywood starts sober up and send thank you notes cannot be all that bad&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VeM2f99Tx7k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Bloom\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Bloom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/howardbloom.net\/\">http:\/\/howardbloom.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Sloan Wilson (Darwin&#8217;s Cathedral) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/eskeptic\/07-07-04.html\">http:\/\/www.skeptic.com\/eskeptic\/07-07-04.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Continuing the series where I post the backlog from my drafts folder. This one is from June 2009 ] David Sloan Wilson &amp; Howard Bloom both argue cults can be good including Scientology. &#8220;A religion that makes Hollywood starts sober up and send thank you notes cannot be all that bad&#8221; See also http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Bloom http:\/\/howardbloom.net\/ &#8230; <a title=\"David Sloan Wilson and Howard Bloom on cults\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/david-sloan-wilson-and-howard-bloom\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about David Sloan Wilson and Howard Bloom on cults\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,39,12,42,16,19],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-history","category-news","category-psychology","category-religion-spirituality","category-sociology-social-sciences","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-1vk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15664,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/avoiding-secularocity\/","url_meta":{"origin":5786,"position":0},"title":"Avoiding Secularocity","author":"Limbic","date":"May 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The word religiosity means \"excessively religious\". I would like to coin the term secularocity, a companion word that means \"excessively secular\". Now you might wonder why a secularist, agnostic and sceptic like myself is coining words that arguably have a negative connotation regarding secularism? It is a good question, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ethics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ethics","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/category\/ethics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15651,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/the-orthosphere\/","url_meta":{"origin":5786,"position":1},"title":"The Orthosphere","author":"Limbic","date":"April 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Even though I am not a believer myself I have a tremendous respect for religions and religious people. For example, I absolutely love the spiritually themed On Being radio show. 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