♥What is a cult?

Question

♥ Just curious.

Answer 1

A cult while generally found in religious groups, can also be political, racial or it can be anything really.

One of its unique characteristics would have to be a totalitarian control by a single charismatic, usually self-appointed leader with complete authority, one who is never to be questioned.

Many cults advocate completely being honest only within their group but being totally secretive from anybody outside of the group.

And the cult usually do this by often living together in one secluded area or entirely cut them selves off from any outside contact.

And lastly any new recruit from the outside are usually ordered to be silent about being in their group especially to their own families, well until they're in as well.

Answer 2

A cult is a gernerally small group of people whose religion believes and practices are considered outside the mainstream. However, there had been so called "cults" in history that had large numbers of followers. I would say the status of a religion as a "cult" is always changing as the society around it evolves and what is considered "mainstream" changes.

Answer 3

In religion and sociology, a cult is a term designating a cohesive group of people (generally, but not exclusively a relatively small and recently founded religious movement[1]) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be outside the mainstream

Answer 4

The Random House Unabridged Dictionary definitions are:

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;
3. The object of such devotion;
4. A group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc;
5. 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.

In other words, a religion of any type.

Answer 5

lesbi-friends, funny. Jehovah's Witnesses are the only Christians that actually adhere to Christ's teachings and understand the Holy Bible in it's entirety to be the inspired word of God, just because you don't like the teachings because they conflict with your lifestyle, you believe you have a right to lie about them, possibly keeping other honesthearted people from finding the truth. May God have mercy on your soul. A cult is a group that in most cases, isolate themselves from the outside world, not letting in strangers or letting their people out, many times arming themselves with weapons as in the Waco Texas case or with Jim Jones. Cults also follow a person. Jehovah's Witnesses invite any and all to come into our meetings, we conduct home Bible Studies with all who wish too, as stated earlier, Christ is our leader and we adhere to his teachings, and we have dedicated our lives to doing Jehovah God's will.

Answer 6

A cult means in former times to be connected with the reality,
to control things, human b. couldn't understand.like thunder, dangerous animals etc. illness, dead
Nowadays, cult is science, the idea that we can control nature
by machines , the illusion, that siencs could solve all funamental problems, even illness or gettin g older etc.
Cult gives us a seance in live, it controls things in our deep souls. So our cult...ure. A castle against the 99% in and out of un , we can t understand. And even more....

Answer 7

A cult is really a group of people that end up being missionized to go out and collect money for the group leader.

Answer 8

A cult is a religion that the person speaking of it does not endorse.

Answer 9

Dictionary defines it as: Adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices.

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This means all religions are a cult.

Answer 10

A cult is a noun which most people abuse and misapply.

Hannah J Paul