A cult is a religion with no political power.
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One person's religion is another person's cult.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.
I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.
One man's cult is another man's religion.
This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.