...they would say and do nothing when someone leaves. Think about it, if someone exits the "church" and they say nothing, or make a polite comment ("We're sorry to see Mr. X go."), the people leaving would look like they have "sour grapes". But, because they throw a fit and besmirch them, those speaking out get the support of the public. It's just a thought. :)
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1 a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object.
2 a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister
3 a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.Definition 1: All religions are cults regardless of whether you like them or not.
Definition 2: Any group other than Christianity or Islam could be a cult, as the definition fails to explain what "relatively small group" means.
Definition 3: Any non-religious group you personally don't like is a cult, such as political parties and special interest groups.
That is true - Islam and Christianity did start off as being cults, until their numbers and power grew enough to displace the existing systems of belief.
Cults are like viruses - they start off as being vile, deadly - but over time, if successful in overcoming resistances, they spread with a lot more ease, but lose some of their worst aspects.
For anyone interested, scientology is shrinking fast - so it doesn't look like this virus will succeed and it is more likely to go extinct after some time.
There's a big difference in the use of the term cult there.
Islam was a military cult whose leader was a military general trying to develop a totalitarian system to control it's followers completely and take over the world.
Christians were hunted, tortured and killed, fed to the lions for believing in love and peace.
It could be worse, they could put death fatwas out on them like radicial Islamists.
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