What's in your Library ?

[emjay]

Yeah, I know it's batshit crazy... I was just asking what crazy things it had to say. But anyway don't worry, I won't subject myself to it... all it would do was make my blood boil, especially if it was being taken seriously by some people, which it inevitably would be

Yeah, it's a shame people get sucked into cults.

Yeah it is one of my mum's friends joined one twenty odd years ago and was never seen again and we've got jehovahs witnesses in the family and they cut themselves off from everyone else too. It's hard to know what the difference is between a religion and a cult but I'd guess it has something to do with the level of autonomy each person has to think for themselves. So I'm never really sure if Catholicism should be considered a cult; everyone in it has believe whatever the Vatican deems as true - almost like a standards organisation, they have to ritualistically reaffirm their beliefs regularly, and it came as a kind of disturbing surprise to me to learn that all Catholic churches the world over teach the same things on the same days. So it seems just like a hive mind... and that sounds a helluva lot like a cult to me.