people. The differences between cults and sects are sometimes the .

             same. Many scholars do not make distinctions between the two. Cults .

             are different because they do not expect as much commitment. Many .

             times' cults do not expect couples to become apart. Cults do not last .

             as long as sects. Many times' cults survive through a decade, and also .

             cults allow you to come and go as you want. Leaders of cults build .

             around a charismatic leader who has a lifestyle dedicated to a .

             specific spirituality group that they know other people will follow. .

             The word Mormonism began as a small cult then grew bigger until it .

             became a sect and eventually into a church. All the new religions .

             followed the same thing by beginning small and getting bigger than .

             becoming a church.

             Cults go back as far as we know of life, cults began to get .

             bigger and be known throughout the world in the late 1960"s and early .

             70"s as people were better educated and better understood how they .

             were formed and how they were run and people began to join. During .

             this time Youths and middle class people began to join cults because .

             of the in thing to do and they felt more secure about themselves. .

             Cults really started to fascinate people when Jimmy Jones cult began .

             in November of 1978 when all attention was focused on the mass .

             suicide in Jonestown, a similar event happened in 1993 when federal .

             agents engaged in a shoot out with cult leader David Koresh. .

             Modern cults have many different practices and many different ways of .

             leadership. Some cults have a flexible functional leadership, like .

             the groups in the charismatic movement coming from the mainland .

             Christian religion, other cults have people who run and orchestrate .

             cult events, like Reverend Myung Moon leader of the unification .

             church. The reason people are attracted to modern cults because it .

             puts emphasis on community and on direct experience with the divine. .

             In cults' participants often find a level of social support and .