It would be helpful if we kept the useful word "cult" to its generally-accepted quite narrow definition. Charmion has it right. And do the read the piece by Janja Lalich in the Tennessean that I mentioned yesterday. You may not agree with everything she says but the piece at least puts us in the ballpark The major religions are not cults and political parties/"Trumpism" are not cults. Jehovah's Witnesses do not belong to a cult. There is far more to a cult than something you find distasteful or with which you vehemently disagree.