This became a thread on Islam when it was absurdly declared less of a threat to Christianity than Mormonism.
Hugs, smiles, warm fuzzies and everything. :)
This is the exact same kind of drivel I saw for years with both pro-abortionists and well-meaning, less-than-active Christians as they'd describe abortion...as some impersonal abstract "issue" -- but no body count ever recognized. The cults & world religions both have exacted a spiritual "body count." It's time you stopped addressing everything in the abstract.
Please recognize the spiritual threat by cult leaders has been so great to the body going back to at least Ephesus at the time of the apostle Paul that he described them as "wolves" (see Acts 20).
A true shepherd wouldn't look at 3 sheep being taken from his flock and conclude, "Well, you know the real threat are the predators who took those other 3 sheep on the other side and who'll take 10, 20, or 30 by the year XYZ." A true shepherd feels the loss of all of them, and doesn't rate sheep loss according to predator. Given that you don't have the markings of such a true shepherd, what kind of a shepherd does that leave? A hireling? A false shepherd?