[wintertime]

Cults do this. They emotionally manipulate their members by threats of being cut off from the “One True Path to Redemption”, the “True Priesthood Powers” and, ( of course) “Damnation to Hell”.

Gee! I am glad to be free of this cult.

[metmom]

Cults do this. They emotionally manipulate their members by threats of being cut off from the “One True Path to Redemption”, the “True Priesthood Powers” and, ( of course) “Damnation to Hell”.

Yup. The minute it's *Our way or the highway*, you know that you're dealing with a cult.

Any church or group which claims exclusivity, in that you have to go through them to get to God, is absolutely a cult.

Churches don't save. Religions don't save. Works don't save.

JESUS saves.