The religious organization, Heaven's Gate, uploaded a document on their website which contained information on how to "advance beyond human". Throughout the text, there seemed to be a common theme within all the bullets of information: most of the text was derived from already-established religions. This radical religious organization was able to muster up logos for its cause through the combination of multiple other religious ideas, and twisting them. An instance of this can be seen in the following quote:
"if that animal grows to find pleasure... the human family then provides the body (a human infant) for that soul to enter, allowing it to move up into the human evolutionary kingdom."
The previous quote is very similar to the Hindu concept of reincarnation, which could be the potential source of inspiration. There were many other similar religious inspirations including Christianity, citing that Jesus was indeed the son of god, but that he was misunderstood and his words were manipulated. Overall, this seems to be a common theme throughout many cults. For example, the People's Temple and KKK had both supported their radical ideas with Christianity.
I definitely agree that twisting logic is a very common practice for cults. It's interesting how cults such as this one use a very logical argument to convince delusional people.
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