I maybe WAY off the mark here, but can anyone explain to me how all religions are not a cult? To me they are one and the same. Religions have rules in order to control the followers of that religion. How is that not a cult? I know it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but I'm curious what some of you might contribute to this line of thinking.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It's just a label the big churches give little churches. The big ones consider themselves Orthodox and everything else is a cult. In modern society, Cult comes with the connotation that it is extreme, bizarre/weird, and/or abnormally dangerous in some way.
Humanity4all
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June 7, 2018
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I would consider a cult to be more on the"extreme" spectrum of religion. Typically cults have leaders that portray themselves as gods themselves or very close to one and create a following thru brainwashing and extremely abusive power.
Haleighdawn1019
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Not all religions are the same. New thought churches generally require no belief. There’s Unitarianism, also the Society of Friends. I wouldn’t classify any of those as cults.
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