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Cult vs cult.
...aight cool, I'll get some popcorn ready.
cult /kŭlt/ noun
Is the catholic church really a cult or are you just being an edge lord?
Even just by the definition you posted, literally every single religion is generally considered extremist or false by every other religion and by folks who aren't superstitious, and therefore every single religion is a cult.
And you call my take edgy?
But even if we turn the focus to just Christianity, there's no biblical basis for establishing a pope or shit like purgatory - at some point we just decided to pin some dude with the title of Boss Christian and sprinkle in some other shit that isn't even part of Christian mythology.
The only difference between that and David Koresh is scale, so again even through the lens of Christianity, yeah it's a fucking cult.
Religion has been really good at carving out exceptions to hide their batshittery.
You believe in a crazy man that pisses vodka and walks on lava? You're a crazy delusional man!
You get a million people to believe your horseshit, wait a minute, respect this man's religion!
So yea, they are both cults, both would be classified as mental illnesses if, again, they didn't carve out exemptions for religion.
Those cunts think some magic dude is literally a fucking cracker that they eat every week.
I would have used a definition that mentions size/scale of the organization if I wanted to refute them, tbh.
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