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To: xzins

SO I guess the difference will be in how someone defines “traditional” and “novel”, and hat those entail.


4 posted on 12/12/2007 10:00:15 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: theDentist

They are descriptions of the ebb and flow of religions.

A “church” would be the parent body that is established.

A “cult” would be a breakaway group with “novel” ideas about the subjects generally accepted within the originating mother body.

A “sect” would be a “cult” that has survived over time, and has tended back in the direction of the “traditional” interpretations of the mother body AND has developed some “traditions” of its own.


5 posted on 12/12/2007 10:03:02 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain! True Supporters of Our Troops Support the Necessity of their Sacrifice!)
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