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| | Encyclopedia article on New religious movement [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Advocates who regard certain fringe religious organizations, new religious movements or (controversially) "cults" as spurious and condemn their methods, also call them "hate groups". |
 | | For example, the prominent counter cult activist Anton Hein considers Scientology a hate group because that religious movement has, in his opinion, a long, documented history of hate and harassment activities[1] (http://www.apologeticsindex.org/s04f.html), which—along with lying and deception—are condoned and encouraged in Scientology's own 'scriptures.' (See, for example, Scientology's Fair Game [2] (http://www.apologeticsindex.org/f08.html) policy.) |
 | | In turn, a number of new religious movements have used the term "hate group" to label certain former members of these groups. |
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