Why is Christianity a cult?

Question

I keep seeing on TV and movies how all these Christians form cults and kill people. Why are they so mean?

Answer 1

Your definition of a cult is not correct.

Sorry to pop that bubble, but go form a decent argument instead of generalizing people.

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Why do all white atheist males smell? It's true--I met one who did!!!

Answer 2

Being a Christian in and of itself is a belief in God and Jesus, so how that makes me a cultist I don't get it.

I am sure there have been some cults formed in the name of God, but that does not mean they ARE from God.

As to the first poster, your generalizations are tremendously narrow minded. I am sure there are some Christians, such as Catholics, who see their leaders as supremely inspired or almost divine. Other then Catholics though I have yet to meet a Christian who thought that way. they may believe their Pastor is led by God, but they realize he is a man capable of sinning like any other man.

You also said in TV and Movies you see this, not everything on TV and in Movies is real.

Answer 3

Those aren't Christians, they are lost souls. Mainstream Chrisitanity (1/3 the world, 60% of the US) are actually just Sunday drivers who go to church now and then, own a Bible, know a few things and just go about life.

Christianity teaches love, peace, self-control, meekness as well as defensive measures against hostial attack, but not with bloodshed on either side. The idea behind defense fighting is to vanquish without harm, through skill and tenacity. And that's only when confronted with harm.

Christians are not supposed to be on the offensive, that is God's job. God passes the judgement and sends people into the rivers and lakes of fire, not man.

Jesus NEVER told his followers to use force or weapons or to fight. He said spread the word, if you are rebuffed, turn, wipe the dust off your feet and keep walking.

Jesus did not say fight the infidels until Christianity dominates.

That concept belongs to a different religion.

Anyone doing offesensive violence of a nature that sheds blood, other than in the service of Ceasar, which Jesus said you can do, but not in God or Jesus name, is not following in the footsteps of Jesus and is therefore NOT a Christian.

Cults are about false prophets who dupe people, even potentially good Christians and the Bible says if you follow them you get the mark of the beast and will not stay with God or see heaven.

Answer 4

Cult it a lot of persons delivered jointly to confirm human beings have multiple money. no person desires it. it could be extra effective if all Christians only thought for themselves. Too many are so prepared approximately issues that different Christians do no longer accept as true with so how can all of them be Christians & disagree? they might besides drop each and all the BS. as an occasion some human beings pick to maintain gays from marrying. existence balances itself out. So if people who have faith in Christ don't understand that they are one with others then why ought to they call themselves Christians. so as that they tell others they are able to't have freedom & they do no longer sense they have freedom. They lose family individuals out of a karma/stability via having a grandchild they love circulate away & they know what that's pick to love somebody & have others get interior the way of them being with that individual. My factor is that the story of Jesus Christ is massive yet extra people who're no longer christians relatively stay it than people who're called Christians. So the lable is going in many circumstances with churchs who're a enterprise.

Answer 5

a cult isnt necessarily a rogue band of extremist who do really weird rituals or have weird practices, a cult is just a religion that not many people follow it basically an equivalent to a minority if your are talking about race.
But anyway answering your question
1.movies and TV like to be controversial in order to get more people to watch
2. that type of movie is very popular now a days
3. there are bad people in this world and life is tough

Answer 6

All religions are cults.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cult
CULT
–noun 1. a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.
3. the object of such devotion.
4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
5. Sociology. a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.
6. a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
7. the members of such a religion or sect.
8. any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.
–adjective 9. of or pertaining to a cult.
10. of, for, or attracting a small group of devotees: a cult movie.

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/cult
CULT
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate -- more at WHEEL
1 : formal religious veneration : WORSHIP
2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
3 : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
4 : a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator
5 a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b : the object of such devotion c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Answer 7

It isn't. People in cults and those who kill people are following the wrong person.

Answer 8

Christianity and cult do not belong in the same sentence. Those that form cults are cultists, not Christians.

Answer 9

you should be able to tell what is cult or Christianity...
The cults are not of God, they are of Satan because they are dictated by the leader... ie: David Koresh and Jim Jones..
All the cult leaders say they are working for God...

Answer 10

Because they think they can do any crime and get away with it by saying they were doing their god's work, and worse, when they do hurt someone, they think the only forgiveness that really matters is that of a ficticious character.