Actually, you could consider most religions a cult....
1.
1. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
2. The followers of such a religion or sect.
2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
5.
1. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
2. The object of such devotion.
6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
it's funny that when someone comes out preaching something like this, everyone is so quick to jump on them and say "hahaha, you're wrong!!" but then get upset when the same thing is done to whatever they chose to believe in. I'm not saying I agree with what this person posted, but it's just the prinicpal of the thing. |