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Non-Christian cults
The pejorative use of the word, I believe, only came into fashion in the last 70 years or so. But then I could be wrong. [[User:Cracker|Cracker]]<sup>[[User_Talk:Cracker|talk]]</sup> 21:46, 14 March 2007 (EDT)
The pejorative use of the word, I believe, only came into fashion in the last 70 years or so. But then I could be wrong. [[User:Cracker|Cracker]]<sup>[[User_Talk:Cracker|talk]]</sup> 21:46, 14 March 2007 (EDT)
== Non-Christian cults ==
Seems to me this entry is very limited in its views:
1) It only seems to deal with [[Christian]] cults/
2) It gratuitously insults major Christian denominations such as the Mormons and Jehovah's WItnesses, from among whom many conservative Christians hail
3) The stuff on the Nicene Creed is both useless and misleading.
Oddly enough, the Wikipedia has a fairly decent definition that avoids these problems:
"In religion and sociology, a cult is a term designating a cohesive group of people (generally, but not exculsively a relatively small and recently founded religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be outside the mainstream or reaching the point of a taboo. Its status may come about either due to its novel belief system, its idiosyncratic practices, its perceived harmful effects on members, or because it perceived opposition to the interests of the mainstream culture. Non-religious groups may also display cult-like characteristics."
-- sounds like a better start to me!
[[User:Boethius|Boethius]] 21:56, 14 March 2007 (EDT)