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In the sect's twisting

There is space in the people, many times solitary, from doubts tormented one we struggle between the waves to which rise was given by the obstacles of the life. We are looking for the sense of our existence... But we receive help really, you are just by way of this our self-reliance ceases, and somebody else character we will be the prisoners of shackles?

"Only that end, I would be able to forget it simply" - says it Ádám towards the end of The Man's Tragedy (Imre Madách drama, 1860). Gets only a promising sentence for his emerging doubt: "Said man, fight, and trusting trust!"

That certain End is there in everybody's thoughts. The questions concerning the sense of our existence occur to us very often. Why we were born, we finally created, what will be, how we live our eartly life? And what waits for us after the death? To it, that let us know an answer to these questions to give everybody creates his own philosophy. And we test it with a content and the "carpe diem" with a view of life to saturate the on all of them our days. For most men but the teachings of the religion give an answer to the sense of the existence and the life after the death onto relevant questions. When the things are going fine, healthy, we are happy, then these questions not important. Mutual we get into a heavy situation when there are problems, we lose a beloved family member, kind friend, we reflect then. Everything seems hopeless one and meaningless one sometimes. We are inclined in the hope of consolation and help at this time to turn to somebody. This but may be dangerous sometimes because a wounded soul is more exposed. Endre Halász father - who dealt with alcoholics through long time - told the successor.

Went out into the cemetery to his mother grave when he is two young person (from a sect) addressed it, consolation would have liked to be provided for him. He realize suddenly that this is the sects' benefit at this time. They go there and address, they sense it something onto very important deficiency! We have to go to the folk church. The historical churches should make changes in this! There is space in the people according to it ("horror vacui"), the sects can fill this void.

A twenty-something girl acquaintance of mine, who is sad with a life story,, with heavy family background, physical disability is at his disposal, managed to get away so far, that his life turned into meaningless one, and wanted to end him. Decided in that manner, that from his saved money buys a pistol, and some regarded an end as his sufferings with a bullet. He just wanted to withdraw his saved money from the cash machine when two young persons addressed him. My acquaintance changed since then. Two interpret his rescuer's appearance as a God intervening. This community was his family, the common prayers, programs provide vitality to him. Wants to break with his manner of living until now, with his workplace, withdrew from his good friends. Trusts him if he is praying much if he does not commit earthly sins, gets rid of his physical disability then and will be happy. Does not listen to the old friends, into the community and into its teachings his made faith steadfast...

We would be able to list innumerable cases like this. The media reports on tragedies regularly, rustic from the release of young persons beaten, from mass suicides, since certain religious communities deprive their members of their property, it is torn away from their family. Simplifying the question very much, there are religious communities like that, in which truth faith, strength, a company is provided to their members, who find the spiritual harmony hereby,, and there are companies that get under the power of a selected prophet, they rebel against the traditional church teachings, the Redeemer's coming is seen in their own guru, and which are capable of multitudinous you-destruction even.

The sect from the bigger religious community conscious coming down and smaller religious community battling against it, that emphasizes certain teachings unilateral and demands severer asceticism of his members generally. In the vernacular the sect expression with a negative content. The sects develop because the existing social system and the prevailing religion are opposed. Since one cannot be reformed or to disprove, a totally new world is offered instead.  The sects claim that they are his sole owners for the true faith and superior somebody else compared to religious groupings. Naturally their prophet, their heavenly envoy, their guru, their verb advertiser the road leading to the truth only knowing. Since he is the humanity himself is not able to regain a good road, a God sends guides for them, for who the faithful ones one without a condition and with full devotion owe. They - onto a monastic sample - denying their family and their previous life, giving up their name and their individuality, from the world totally locking away they are in service as a robot. Others secular ones are left over and taking two-three jobs the border of the complete exhaustion they work, but they renounce all of their ownership, - strengthening the community on a material line. Are, who (into a parody decent) 14-16 clocks are begged for the despised and onto damnation somebody else judged faith, others prostitute new faithful ones and supporters try to be obtained for the congregation. Many people tropic they settle into strange countries you are something else even onto a continent. Of who it is demanded are willing to abadon their parental rights in the sect's interest: the community raises their children, on the basis of the prophet's management and his decisions. The sects' majority demands sexual abstinence of his believers, the mormons mutual polygamy. The prophet hope in the despair, guide in the chaos, safe clue. In single cases his pupils and faithful their spiritual leader is invested with extreme characteristics, they are what he takes on later. Somebody else in cases a charismatic individuality himself invests himself with supernatural characteristics, obtaining followers and later unlimitted power in this manner.

Anybody, who accepts their dogmata, may join the sect and submits himself to the regulations, - that is if a previous denies himself and his life. The reason of this, that is not for the sects worthless, that is for the community useless man. The you are physically mental limited can be stopped up, if onto something else not, onto begging. The sect members are "half-mad" according to the public belief. According to specialists but with much rather from before the daily problems of the life fugitive, many times idealistic young persons, who may suffer from solitude, from excessive competitive spirit, racial and from religious prejudices, from social differentiation, from the hopelessness of the life. Is between them, in who vegetates the altruism and helpfulness, - their most capital dream, that let him be somebody's need onto them. Others insecurity in their sensation, organized in their aimlessness and they want to belong to a directed community. The members' majority has an identity problem, as a result of which he is something else, they want to turn into person and just this it that the sects offer. Was renewed individuality, real aims, substantial lifestyle, - an totally somebody else world.

Let us be even more cautious if we feel that there is space in our soul. The man himself is always in the heaviest moments. Because of that because he is the task of ours that we solve the heavy situations. And we get if we solved the rehearsal well onto the taller degree of our personality development. So, let us devote time to our seed if we feel emptiness from within. Than a hermit, let us draw away from before the world, let us ask questions, and let us look for comforting answers for him. What our heart would like is the most satisfactory solution, which we would like, always. Let us not let something else to tell the solution instead of us because it will not be ours then, and the problem recurs!

Erika Pató