I grew up in White Christian Evangelical Nationalism, and got a 67% (my memory may be off by a couple of points) score.
This feels roughly accurate! I’ve firmly rejected all the beliefs I grew up with, but looking back, we definitely lacked most of the strong central control elements of a cult that tend to manifest themselves when you have a living charismatic founder, but had almost every other level of cultiness to an extreme.
I’m unsure how I feel about the 10% income question—although it captures an important element of control, a lot of cult-like organizations also use something like “time captured” as a control mechanism. A question about this (i.e. what amount of your time is typically used in pursuit of the organization’s goals) might be better, or a complementary angle to take.
I grew up in White Christian Evangelical Nationalism, and got a 67% (my memory may be off by a couple of points) score.
This feels roughly accurate! I’ve firmly rejected all the beliefs I grew up with, but looking back, we definitely lacked most of the strong central control elements of a cult that tend to manifest themselves when you have a living charismatic founder, but had almost every other level of cultiness to an extreme.
I’m unsure how I feel about the 10% income question—although it captures an important element of control, a lot of cult-like organizations also use something like “time captured” as a control mechanism. A question about this (i.e. what amount of your time is typically used in pursuit of the organization’s goals) might be better, or a complementary angle to take.