• Cypher@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    All religions are cults.

    By the way are you counting all the different sects as a singular group? In some places the cultists would kill you for that.

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        1 year ago

        it’s not like apostasy is a requirement for the definition of a cult.

        depending on which of the dictionary definitions you’re going by, a cult could be anything from a religious system of veneration for a figure, to a group with extreme beliefs outside of that of an established religion.

        to me it seems like the only common denominator for all of the definitions is that the group is smaller than that of a religion.