A "cult" is just an organized religion with too few adherents to be in the mainstream. The functional definitions apply as well to the Boy Scouts and the Republican Party as they do to the Mormons or the Moonies. The Friends and the Presbyterians are in the same framework as the Sons of Mohammed. They all require huge gobs of conclusions be taken on faith rather than on reason. Usually they require the recognition of smallness of self compared to the Greatness of their figurehead, whatever it is. Usually, they advise you that any bad in your life comes from within and any blesisngs you experience come from them or their figurehead(s).

Go figger.


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