Also putting Islam, Catholicism, and LDS in the same list as the others would be like me putting similarly more mainstream Orthodox Jews in that list, just because of some cases of organ trafficking[0] or a "child rape assembly line"[1] in a few churches, or circumcision (which is viewed as genital mutilation in most of the world). And the careful adoption of technology (which I admire for the same reason as Amish). So not really appropriate to cluster more mainstream with the marginal cults side-by-side like that because it's disproportionate.
According to Charol Shakeshaft, the researcher behind the 2004 US Department of Education study[2] (if you can find a newer one, I'd like to see it), educators likely do 10-100x the abuse as priests. She's appeared on Oprah and NPR.
[0][https://www.smh.com.au/world/organ-trafficking-rabbis-arrest...
[1]https://www.vice.com/en/article/qbe8bp/the-child-rape-assemb...
[2]https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/...
In Ireland the church even operated mass graves for the children they neglected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_c...
Trying to shun technology is the ultimate form of becoming a purist hipster.
Add magical thinking, now it's merely unreasonableness grounded in superstition.
Also:
- Believe they're better than others and everyone else is "bad" for not believing as they do
- Endorse the abdication of personal responsibility
- Reject science
- Justify any cruelty, suffering, or subjugation on the basis of a manufactured mythology, including forcing a raped child to give birth rather than have an abortion "because grey bearded dude in the sky and a magical book say so"
- Coerce people to surrender their autonomy and control them
- Various forms of what is essentially human trafficking
Let me recount:
- Al-Qaeda
- ISIS
- Branch Davidians
- Moonies
- Scientology
- Heaven's Gate
- NXIVM
- The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project (Jonestown)
- Rajneeshpuram
- Seventh-day Adventists (most people have no idea how brutal they were)
- Catholicism for thousands of years, how many 100's of millions were slaughtered in the Old World and the New. (Albigensian Crusade anyone?)
- Islam and Catholicism are close in terms of attributable deaths (piles of heads after raiding sultan armies, Armenian Genocide)
- LDS
- FLDS
The exceptional few least likely to murder, rape, or exploit anyone:
- Sikh
- Jainism
- Episcopal
^- Benign as they may seem, it's still a weakness by surrendering critical thinking over to fantasy.