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To: AdmSmith
Cults promote a message which claims certainty about issues which are objectively uncertain.

This is also unfortunately a classic definition of religion in general, and thus by itself gives us no way to differentiate between a "religion" and a "cult."

Of course, the traditional definition is that my beliefs are a religion, and yours are a cult.

9 posted on 07/16/2005 4:03:16 AM PDT by Restorer (Liberalism: the auto-immune disease of societies.)
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To: Restorer
the traditional definition is that my beliefs are a religion, and yours are a cult.

Which is why it's futile to lable something a religion or cult. In reality, the phrase 'Islam' is just an identifier for a philosophy that is antithetical to the West.

We didn't need to know why the Japanese/Nazis hated us during WWII, and we certainly didn't care whether or not their religions (Shinto/Pagan) were cults.

11 posted on 07/16/2005 4:22:36 AM PDT by lemura
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