[Jim from C-Town]

There are over a Billion adherents to Islam in this World. They believe strange things including that a meteorite in Mecca is stained black from sin, yet it is not a cult.

The Catholic religion has over 1 billion adherents who believe that ordinary bread and wine a transformed into the body and blood of Jesus Christ during the consecration of the Mass and they are not a cult. From the outside ALL religions have strange beliefs. Faith is the belief Without proof.

[muawiyah]

Not exactly sure what ALL the islamic theology is concerning the meteorite embedded in the wall of the building called the Kaaba, but they keep meteorites in reserve to replace it ~ they wear out!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Islam is a totally separate religion.
Catholicism is part of Christianity.

Mormonism is a cultic and satanic perversion of Christianity.

[Elsie]

Faith is the belief Without proof.

And deception is a clinging to 'faith' when PROOF has been given that what the faith claims CANNOT be true.

[SoConPubbie]

There are over a Billion adherents to Islam in this World. They believe strange things including that a meteorite in Mecca is stained black from sin, yet it is not a cult.

Cults, at least with regards to Christianity and Christians, have to do with Religions claiming to be Christian, not other religions.

With regards to Islam, the correct adjective is False.

However, that same adjective can be applied to Mormonism.

Both were made up religions and have no real power to change the souls of Men and Women as Christianity does.

Trying to drag Catholicism(Disclaimer, I am a Protestant) into the discussion of what is a cult is incorrect as well, as while what you are saying is true, does not violate the precepts and theology of Christianity.

Mormonism, on the other hand, as has been shown by valid comparisons between the Bible, and the Mormon Bible and other Mormon foundational documents and by the historical stated records of the leaders of the Mormon religion, violates many of the precepts of Christianity and large parts of the theology.