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Semantics of Cults: What's a cult?

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Coragyps
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11-05-2005 4:13 PM

Had Ambrose Bierce defined "cult" in his Devil's Dictionary, I'm sure he would have said something along the line of, but much more clever than, "Any religious group not the speaker's own."
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I've noticed that the more fundamentalist and the more cult-like, in the dictionary sense, a group is, the more they like to talk about other groups being "cults."
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11-05-2005 4:22 PM 		Reply to: Message 9 by RAZD
11-05-2005 4:06 PM

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But away from the original faith - isn't that the point of the OP criteria? The 'corruption' of the faith?
Very likely correct: look at the Quakers. They were quite the cult in many people's eyes back around 1800: agitating for equality of all men, freedom for slaves, etc. And such views were indeed a corruption of the mainstream faith, which was against such commie pinko notions. Just, over time, the mainstream took a different path and began to pretend that it had always embraced such notions.
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11-05-2005 4:45 PM 		Reply to: Message 13 by Chiroptera
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Damn, I need to read that again!
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