Study On The Crime Of Destructive Cult

Being a society cancer, destructive cult is now considered one of the two plagues, international terrorism being its partner and checking and striking both has now become a common task to the international world. Destructive cult is an illegal organization harmful to the society, it is not religious, nor is it religiously correct or wrong, but a legal term with definite lawful distinction. Organizations of destructive cult are developing rapidly in various parts of the world in recent years. With its types and numbers still arising, the destructive cult has now reached its peak scale. Recent public statistics show that the organizations have developed from "over 3000 to around 10,000,"the followers of which are now over several tens of millions, some even say 100 million! These organizations are so widely distributed that most of the world countries can find their traces, while the main body gather around the United States of America, Japan and some European developed countries. People in poor Asian countries are also fond of the destructive cult, which is being harmful to many countries to various extents. Parts in China found some of the destructive cult groups since the 80's, whose activities are now spreading through most of our provinces and cities. Among the 15 most active groups there are 7 which have international belts, and their activities have spread through 782 cities and counties in our nation, influenced over 500,000 people. We can see from the above statistics that destructive cult organizations exist in almost everywhere throughout the world and now is endangering the society to various extent, therefore an urgency of needs appears to require high attention from the entire international world to seek for an effective way to solve this evolving problem which is now facing human being. Because of the variety of historical and cultural backgrounds together with the difference of economical and social situations in all nations and areas, the present destructive cult appeared recently are various in their respective doxy, organizations, activity pattern and their social effect. They each hold a independent forms which could be classified by thought resources, group resources, the way they develop, their exterior properties, their social presentation and other criterion. Destructive cult holds a characteristic of being international and historical, which means they not only exist in China but also in other countries, not only at present but also in the past. But the inner meaning of destructive cult holds different connotation and denotation in different countries and in different historical periods. The organizations of destructive cult today are contemporary, they are developed and formed from the basic structure of their historical origins. According to the description in western languages, the word CULT could be better modified by DESTRUCTIVE, so as to clarify their inbeing of harming human rights and destroying social order. Destructive organization refers to those who are set up in the name of a certain religion or philosophy, and who apotheosize their chief leader, develop and control their members by using grotesque and strict measures, violate human right and harm the society. They create a definite worship system and claim having a "super-natural"hierarch, hold a grotesque worship pattern, torture followers'rational thoughts, undergo mental control, and carry out a closed and strict central power. They oppose human nature, employ an extreme anti-society pattern, collect fortune by any kind of means and resist to the present society. They are illegal organizations with obvious characteristics of anti-human nature, anti-government and anti-society. Everything in this world possesses its process from production to development, and destructive cult is with no exception. It is partly from religion but goes to extremes, so it is a qualitative change from religion and holds thorough distinction from religion. Some destructive organizations are partly rooted in feudal superstition, actually they are sharing the same ancestor of Tong and are variants of it.Only a minimum of them are from organizations with their mental foundation superstitious. Being a social phenomenon, destructive cult appeared with its historical necessity and complex reasons. The uncertain policy taken by different government towards it and the existence of superstition make sufficient possibility for its production and development. In China, the unique social situation makes the appearance of destructive unique. As a matter of fact, each organization maintain its own specialty and each of its members get into it through different means. The special social phenomenon such as destructive cult cannot disappear shortly. To keep its own survival and development and avoid the government attack, it would continuously modulate itself to suit to the change of situation. It has a internationalize spreading system, behaves violently and uses modern means to carry messages. Its members are getting younger, more knowledgeable and higher in social sections. Destructive cult is now trying to use legal names to cover its illegal activities. Therefore, effective means must be taken so as to prevent more harms destructive cult would bring about to human being and society. As is known to all, destructive cult has brought enormous disasters to the nation and the people, the damage and harm brought with it are rather serious. In a crime-legalization period, it is of great significance that destructive cult get dealt with as a crime, and its organization considered criminal. The general procedure is as follows: activities of destructive cult are seriously harmful to the society, being seriously harmful to the society means illegal, so the activities of destructive cult are illegal; illegal activities are guilty, so the activities of destructive cult are guilty, therefore the activities of destructive cult are considered crime. Only when we realize the activities of destructive cult are crime can we defend its harm and protect national interest. The next step is to analyze, study and realize the activities of destructive cult in a higher level so that more powerful ways could be taken to avoid the activities of destructive cult. Since the founding of our government, China has take a set of methods to forbid and ban the activities of destructive cult, meanwhile great...