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To: metmom

“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”.


441 posted on 09/09/2013 6:30:20 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman; metmom; CynicalBear

Uh, have you read the comments around here directed to non-catholics? From catholics? Oh,it’s bigger than cult-like. Talk about “shunning non-members..” and as far as breaking off contact with their families...No need to, their entire families, going back 10,000 years ARE members.


442 posted on 09/09/2013 7:01:00 AM PDT by smvoice (Better Buck up, Buttercup. The wailing and gnashing are for an eternity..)
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To: Boogieman; smvoice

Some of the other characteristics is putting their teachings above the Word of God. Depending on extra-Biblical revelation.

I don’t think that any group has to have ALL the characteristics to be classified as a cult.


444 posted on 09/09/2013 9:28:42 AM PDT by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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