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    Your thoughts?
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    22 Sep '09 09:33
    Originally posted by Zort Boy
    Your thoughts?
    i have to many in my thinking
  3. Standard memberkaroly aczel
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    22 Sep '09 10:07
    Originally posted by Zort Boy
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    You tell me your honest reasons for starting this thread , and then I'll give you my thoughts. Hows that?
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    22 Sep '09 10:44
    Originally posted by Zort Boy
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    Usually when talking about cults one is talking about religion. For me, a cult becomes a cult when the attention is shifted away from God to that of an organization or a charismatic leader. In short, when man superceds God in importance, then you begin down the path of culthood.
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    22 Sep '09 11:141 edit
    Originally posted by whodey
    Usually when talking about cults one is talking about religion. For me, a cult becomes a cult when the attention is shifted away from God to that of an organization or a charismatic leader. In short, when man superceds God in importance, then you begin down the path of culthood.
    Then, catolocism is a cult, according to your definition?
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    22 Sep '09 20:441 edit
    Originally posted by FabianFnas
    Then, catolocism is a cult, according to your definition?
    No! That most dreaded of beliefs is a cult: "Love for your fellow humans! Humanism!" Next up, how family dinner time discussion not exclusively about god is an avenue for satan to invade your children's underwear! (And yours - if you were wearing any.)
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    22 Sep '09 20:45
    Originally posted by FabianFnas
    Then, catolocism is a cult, according to your definition?
    ANYTHING can become a cult.
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    if they start calling the place where you worship a "compound"
    if they consider moving the place where you worship to a remote jungle outpost
    if they ask that you dress up in bright colors and hand out flowers
    if Tom Cruise becomes interested in it
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    22 Sep '09 21:20
    Originally posted by Zort Boy
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    A cult is a religion that hasn't been accepted by a critical mass of people.
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    22 Sep '09 21:321 edit
    Originally posted by PsychoPawn
    A cult is a religion that hasn't been accepted by a critical mass of people.
    Why do you say that? Only if most of the population acknowlegde or accepts a certian religion, it's then accepted?
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    Originally posted by galveston75
    Why do you say that? Only if most of the population acknowlegde or accepts a certian religion, it's then accepted?
    No. What I'm saying is that cults are in many cases just people who hold religious beliefs that are not held by most so they're usually belittled as being a cult.

    For example, if I got 30 people together and decided to follow Zeus and the greek gods again we would be derided as being a cult. However, it is not a set of beliefs that is all that strange compared to the idea of the universe being created in 6 days and the other stuff in the bible.
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    Originally posted by PsychoPawn
    No. What I'm saying is that cults are in many cases just people who hold religious beliefs that are not held by most so they're usually belittled as being a cult.

    For example, if I got 30 people together and decided to follow Zeus and the greek gods again we would be derided as being a cult. However, it is not a set of beliefs that is all that strange ...[text shortened]... compared to the idea of the universe being created in 6 days and the other stuff in the bible.
    A cult is when you crouch in a corner mumbling strange things. When I crouch in the corner it is a religion (especially if I am clutching a bottle of bourbon.)
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    A cult is a social group that practices a particular religion. The term is essentially identical to sect. Thus we must define religion.

    Religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men and women by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.*

    Mood are fluctuating, temporary states of being; motivations are propensities to behave in a certain way. A patriotic citizen may have a persisting tendency, a chronic inclination to perform in prescribed ways in specific situations, for example, to stand when the nation's flag (here understood as a sacred symbol) is carried by in a parade or when the national anthem is sung. This motivation is ever-present no matter what the citizen is doing, although it is not always observable. It stems from a sense of belonging, from self-identity as an member of a Nation with all its privileges and obligations. Moods, on the other hand, are temporary sensations. The patriotic citizen may experience a sense of exhilaration when the flag passes by, or she may feel angry when it is publicly burned. Even the protester that has chosen torching the cloth as an act of defiance is appealing to a shared sense of the sacredness of the flag as a symbol of the Nation, of its values, and of its history. Mood reflecting the entire range of human emotions may be invoked. Moods and motivations are both elements in an established pattern in which symbols act as the vehicle that conveys a sense of the nature of society into behavior consistent with such a perception.

    Civil religion, thus, gives rise to patriotic cults in the same manner that western history is overrun with Christian cults and their wars of animosity towards one another, and their animosity towards Muslim cults.


    *Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), p. 90.
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    22 Sep '09 23:50
    Originally posted by TerrierJack
    A cult is when you crouch in a corner mumbling strange things. When I crouch in the corner it is a religion (especially if I am clutching a bottle of bourbon.)
    Bourbon may well be the only truly American religion, excepting the Native American Indian religions, of course.
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    23 Sep '09 02:04
    Originally posted by Zort Boy
    Your thoughts?
    Cult- Any belief system that denies the truth.
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