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This article is biased

I just happened upon it, and found it extremely one-sided: from the article itself and this discussion page, the article is clearly one person's attempt to smear and destroy the concept of 'cult' to eliminate it as a threat to their own religious beliefs. Furthermore, by linking to this from other articles, the credibility of those articles is severely compromised, nullifying the painstaking efforts of many people at presenting knowledge backed by hard facts and/or careful thought -- both of which are glaringly missing in this article.

I agree with this editor. In reading this article, it seemed to be very strongly that the tone of this article inappropriately advocated one side of the debate (the person who feels that the label "cult" threatens their religion) over the other, and the article needs a major rewrite with respect to its tone. --Kuzaar^-T-C- 13:46, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There aren't any SIDES OF DEBATE and should't be any as the article is about the practice of 'deprogramming'. The debate is between the deprogrammers and the rest of a pupulation, therefore it is appropriate to present the deprogrammer's point of view but not to miss the larger picture.

I agree, I read this and it sounds like it was edited by a cult member in order to discourage deprogramming and even labelling cults as such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.42.90.78 (talk) 07:19, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely agreed. This article is garbage, and needs to be comprehensively rewritten or removed altogeher. 125.253.30.206 (talk) 10:25, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]