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by SonicSand on January 21st, 2007

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How do you know if a Church is a cult religion?

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  • by MyKinKStar on January 22nd, 2007

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    It's a cult if your involvement begins to mean you represent their causes or ideals for the world.

    It's a cult if you are surrounded only by the other members - your new friends, as companions in your day to day life.

    It's a cult if you lose site of your own life goals, and if your own opinion about issues is no longer important for you to express.

    It's a cult if you no longer desire to spend time with your own family and lifelong friends.

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    • I'd add -- it's a cult if there's a central charismatic figure that's not grooming other leaders, can't work with other leaders, and who's respect you crave.

      Persky Bunkermeister

      by Persky Bunkermeister on January 22nd, 2007

    • Exactly!

      MyKinKStar

      by MyKinKStar on January 22nd, 2007

    • I'm not quite sure what the first sentence means, "if...your represent their causes or ideals for the world." If you believe the ideas or ideals are true and you express those beliefs as your own, then, by definition being a Democrat or a Republican would mean you are part of a cult.

      jefferis

      by jefferis on January 28th, 2007

    • That's certainly true with those who vote across the board, according to their party choices, without using their own brain to think for themself!

      MyKinKStar

      by MyKinKStar on January 30th, 2007

    • Jesus advocated separation form the world, blood family and your own self if you were going to follow him. Your only real friends were members of his group. He also drew people away from their chosen professions and life goals.

      Jerry Montelius

      by Jerry Montelius on February 5th, 2007

    • No question christianity started out as a personality cult -- but those things Jesus advocated 2000 years ago see very little practice today -- Christianity is very much a family oriented *religion*.

      Persky Bunkermeister

      by Persky Bunkermeister on February 5th, 2007

    • Then it should be called something like family time.

      Jerry Montelius

      by Jerry Montelius on February 6th, 2007

    • By that definition christianity itself is a cult.

      Luke 18 reads "Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake" KJV

      So christianity started out a cult and became a religion when it left these early tenets and gained masse recognition?

      Anonymous

      by Anonymous on September 19th, 2009

    • That's how I see it. By the way, it didn't gain mass recognition... many people were killed for "not believing" -- fear factor was a major motivator for conversion once it became the official religion of the Roman emperors.

      Persky Bunkermeister

      by Persky Bunkermeister on September 19th, 2009

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