Hey, Who Are You Calling a Cult? The LDS Church is less of a cult than many of the religions that accuse it of being one. BY: Orson Scott Card He wrote to me in all innocence, a reader from a Catholic country where Mormon missionaries had only recently begun to gather congregations of believers. "I asked my priest," he said, "and he told me that Mormons are a cult." Setting aside the obvious riposte ("What did you think your priest would tell you, that Mormonism was true Christianity as restored by God to living prophets?"), I think...