[snarks_when_bored]

Mormonism and the marks of a cult:

• Charismatic founder: Joseph Smith.  ✔
• Exploitation: Joseph Smith had 33+ wives.  ✔
• Automatons: See Exploitation.  ✔
• Withdrawal and Isolation: Utah.  ✔

It's pretty obvious that Mormonism walked like a cult and quacked like a cult, at least in its early days. Whether it's still a cult is perhaps open for debate.

[Leisler]

Add closed(secret)/non public ceremonies.