Taking Up Serpents: American Cults, Messiahs, and Madmen

TAKING UP SERPENTS AMERICAN CULTS, MESSIAHS, AND MADMEN

One man's cult is another man's religion. That's often been said - but is it true? Despite the fact that every mainstream religion in America was considered a cult at one point in history, when does faith go too far? America's past is filled with stories of cults that strike most of us as strange, bizarre, incomprehensible, and even insane, and yet, many of those of "cults" have turned into mainstream churches that can be found in almos...