2006-11-30 09:42:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What side of the line you're standing on.
2006-11-30 09:45:23 · answer #1 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
From "Webster's New Explorer Large Print Dictionary": Cult- (1)" A religious system." (2) "A faddish devotion." From "Oxford Dictionary of Current English, Third Edition": Sect- " A group of people with different religious beliefs from those of a larger group to which they belong."
2006-11-30 17:50:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A sect is usually a branch of a larger, predominant group. A cult is a stand alone group.
2006-11-30 17:44:51 · answer #3 · answered by elk312 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A sect is a part or branch of a religion. Catholics, orthodox, lutheran, baptist, methodist, mormon, etc. are sects within Christianity.
A cult is a religion without text or doctrine. They are centered around an individual who personally leads his/her followers. They worship this particular personality.
2006-11-30 17:48:09 · answer #4 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cult is a smallish religion that other religions don't like to admit to being a religion. A sect is a sub-religion that the other sub-religions still think of as part of the religion.
2006-11-30 17:44:34 · answer #5 · answered by nondescript 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are both actually religious organizations but I think of them as the hate clubs like the Aryn Nation, KKK, Skin Heads, White Supremest and other dog excrement eating pieces of dung slime. No offense kisses Betty.
2006-11-30 17:56:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Numbers.
2006-11-30 17:44:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
sect.. GOOD cult..BAD
2006-11-30 17:45:47 · answer #8 · answered by enki 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For the 93 rd time nothing.
2006-11-30 17:44:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋