Belongingness is the human emotional need to be an accepted member of a group. Whether it is family, friends, co-workers, a religion, or something else, people tend to have an 'inherent' desire to belong and be an important part of something greater than themselves. A need for this belongingness has existed ever since the dawn of mankind, and it still exists today. We accept this inherent need, because we see it as socially acceptable in society, however we dare to ask if the need becomes obsessive. What if the need to belong influences your choices, reforms your mind, and redirects your actions? What if the need consumes your body until your life is deviated to a new agenda all in the name of belongingness. Just like the need to belong, cults have been a part of human history ever since it began. The term cult comes from the world “cultest” which is greek describing someone that is obsessive. Cults are not just a religion. A cult can be a society that is social, philosophical, or political, like we will discover in the journey of cults. Most people get cults and …show more content…
Zoroastrianism is a cult of the king. Much like Japanese Shintoism, Zoroastrianism encampasses the divine right to the leader of a civilization. During the height of the Roman conquest of the mediterranean and the persecution of early christians. The first heretic religion was born out of christianity in Alexandria, Egypt in 189 AD. Gnostics were a group of cultist christians that believed that the virgin mother mary was the true successor to god, and that god rained invisible seeds onto the earth which were the souls of the saved. With the rise Islam in the east, multiple religious movements started to pop up. One of the major political and social cults in the middle ages. The assassins were a sect of Sunni Islam that had there focus on murdering high ranking leaders, crusaders and noyan which were high ranking Mongolian