Westboro Baptist Church=Left Wing Cult?

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Annik, they're actually productive members of society, just they want to change society as well. Lots of people want to change society, there's nothing unique about that, or 'culty' about that in and of itself.

They aren't a cult because of what they believe, what they believe is no different than many Muslims, and in fact more moderate than some. In much of the middle east Homosexuals are actively killed, as far as I know the westboro baptist church hasn't killed anyone, or even committed any violence. I'm not sure that their beliefs are even outside the mainstream of fundamentalist Christianity. Their beliefs are similar but their actions are different. They are just saying what mainstream churches are saying, but they are saying it in public.

Despite that I still believe that they are a cult, because of they have the real trappings similar to other things that we call cults. They live in a compound, they have a leader who psychologically and physically abuses and manipulates them. They isolate themselves from the mainstream of society. Those are the things that I believe make a cult, real things and not beliefs, since mainstream religions have beliefs no more ridiculous or less ridiculous than those of things that are called cults.