[Partner Event] Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America

Let's join our friends at the Humanist Association of Orange County.

Author Jane Borden discusses "how we got here" as a nation, by investigating the cultish nature of our Puritan founders and the ways in which their doomsday ideologies still echo through secular American culture.

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America was founded by groups most people today would call cults: the Pilgrims and Puritans. The Puritans, in particular, were a high-control doomsday group, something we don't acknowledge. Their radical ideology didn't go away but became the foundation of American culture. Cults Like Us traces seven tenets of their apocalyptic thinking through secular American history, explains how this influence has made us a nation of credulous marks for con artists and demagogues, and proposes that America may be the largest cult of all. People often wonder "how we got here" as a nation. My answer: the Mayflower and Arabella.

Jane Borden is the author of Cults Like Us and I Totally Meant to Do That. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.

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