January 30, 2008

Cults

Filed under: religion

After some recent religious conversations, I wanted to note something interesting that perplexes me:

Why is it that some religions are called cults by many (most?) Christians, and others aren’t?  For example, mormonism.  It’s legally recognized as a religion in the US, it also has a decent set of family values (ignoring the small sect that marries multiple women/girls).  What makes your religion not a cult, and everything else one?

There was a great quote from someone tonight that paraphrased was "[something] is a cult because it’s not what I believe."….

So, she alone apparently decides what’s a cult, and what’s not? And it’s basically everything but what she follows/believes.






















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