[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.

[wintertime]

As you know, I am almost always very supportive of Catholicism on these threads. Our nation would, indeed, be far better off in every way if those who claim to be Catholic actually lived their faith...ALL... of it.

But....I **know** that I am where the Lord wants and needs me to be. The Holy Spirit has testified this to me many times. If this I am flat out certain because i KNOW.

[Boogieman]

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

Well, they have to meet a couple more standards to qualify under the usual definition of a cult, like coercing people to break off contact with their families, or shunning non-members. If they only meet some of the standards, I would just say they are “cult-like”.