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Nowadays, people who have been searching for the sacred in their lives or for any religious absolute truth in vain are in danger of getting trapped in a sect. These groups, brought along with any other religious movements by the New Age era, lead to a complete destruction of personality through taking advantage of some psychological techniques. The leaders of sects, who often suffer from mental diseases or sexual deviations, have right to abuse members of the group. In addition, they are worshipped as gods. Their ideology is the only true one for the group and it is a factor that separates the sect from the world. Hence, sects must be considered a very dangerous phenomenon of the turn of the twentieth century.