There are certain popular words these days that, once they are pinned on a person or institution, even if there isn't a morsel of truth in it, are automatically assumed to cancel them out...permanently. Words like... Misogynist Racist Narcissist {Fill-in-the-blank} + "phobe" (Greek Φόβος: fear) Cult That last word has been on my mind a lot lately. People sling it about quite casually without, I'm glad to say, really knowing what it means. I say "glad" because their naïveté betrays that they've never been in a cult. Kudos to them. But I have been. Twice. Neither time by choice. My...