Is it cult behavior to?

Question

Set up a "religion" with rules of human behavior; then to publish a book with these rules, then to suggest that this book contains rules from God and that it is the Truth and that all other religions and truths and books are "false".

Further, would the cult tell its members that they will be mocked for these believes by people who don't know these "truths".

Some may say this is an attack on Christianity and that I should let others believe what they want to. Not disagreeing with the part about let others believe and live what they want to, but don't be a hypocrite and impose God's laws on the nation of America.

Can I get a SHO-NUFF

Answer 1

It is most interesting these characteristics you describe .. and I believe very much they are the normative most natural to humanity regarding most religious manifestations...
If we were looking for exceptions to this historically...and as we do not possess a time machine-these will simply be speculative and not "tangible" ..We might note 1)Aspects of the Rennaissance-which inevitably capitulated to the aspects you described..2)Epochs in the Hindu-Kush and China where a certain science of introversion prevailed (and again resulted eventually in the same capitulation which I will omit in the others forth as assumed) 3)Wide ranging alphabet based Mystery Schools of Egypt,Greece,Celtia,Norse et al; and 4) Early Gnostic Christianity ..there are others-but I would like to examine some of the few things common to these four ...
In regards to what is common with these..initially we may note that to this day, all these manifestations give to us alot that is "perrenial"...they penetrate our literatures,and psychology collectively ( see Shakespeare,Kant, and Jung to name a few) .. but they also in their temporal manifestations were very "fluid" traditions .. that is they were not based on a single "deadletter" book .. in fact, quite the opposite, they were integrating and fluidly changing all the time .. such that a scholar picking one of them today .. finds all sorts of contradictions in practices and mythologies .. and despite this very much continuums of spirit ... They had certain consistencies despite their abilities to change...
The Greek myths were very flowing .. and often entire characters would change in their retellings, as well as incidents .. Early Gnosticism did this too .. as we find at 2-300 AD Jesus-Ophite serpent in the Garden Creation mythos was as legitamate a contender to what would become standard Christian Creation mythos as Old Testament Torah ..But as the cities coalesced bishops and clergy in their new power structures .. Religion comingling with politics for its own agendas began declaring what anathemas were .. Christians that assume some Providential hand was operant in this process are essentially ignorant of its bloody, bloody history ..
Yet one should know that even neoplatonism and those that claim a Socratic disposition owe ethics and many perrenial attributes straight back to what were once very "religious" principals .. and Socrates himself had some contradictions in this regards as in some of his teaching showed he held aspects of the Mysteries in a certain reverence ...

Answer 2

sho nuff!

No god would ever want these things. I'm sure a god would like to see good moral rules out there. But what would a god care about a single insignificant human having worldly posessions. People that believe that a god would talk through a burning bush are really setting pretty low expectations of what a god really is.

Answer 3

A cult is: 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

The Bible has over 40 different authors and was written over a period of 1500 years.
A better example of what you are talking about would be Mormonism, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Islam, etc.

Answer 4

The main distinction is that Christianity doesn't rely on "blind" faith but provides many proofs... if you would like to know more try reading some Lee Strobel book that make a "Case for Christ"... something that doesn't ask you to take "faith on faith". He has written a few books along that line.

I don't feel "attacked" because there ARE proofs and evidence to back up Christianity.... don't forget... its called the "Theory" of evolution for a reason and we are no closer to PROVING that than OJ is to finding "the real killers"

I have to say I completely agree with you about the Mormons and Scientologists... good lookin out!

Answer 5

It’s not an attack on Christianity; it is the unveiling of the hypocrisy that is invading our lives in this new neo-con regime. I think you have said most eloquently what many atheists believe and that is why you are the best!
Sho-Nuff!

Answer 6

I would say it is cult behaviour. But don't we have to define cult? Does a large number of members move you from cult status to religion status? If it does then we would have to say that it is not cult behaviour, it indeed the behavior of a religion.

Answer 7

If it looks like a cult, acts like a cult, smells like a cult, quacks like a cult.... it's a cult


SHO-NUFF - Keep the cult out of government

Answer 8

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Answer 9

It doesn't sound like a cult to me because they give everyone their free will if they want to follow it or not. It's really not a big deal, if you don't believe it, then just don't follow it.

Answer 10

Yes, Religion is a cult.

Two examples;
If the people will not serve God, they will end up serving and being slaves of government.

If man will not serve God, then woman will not serve man.