(May 13, 2014 at 9:27 pm)Godlesspanther Wrote:(May 13, 2014 at 7:54 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: To be fair, though, how many matches to they have to hit on the 100 items list in order to fully qualify as a cult? 100%? 80%? 60%? Or merely >50%?
I'd say over half would be good enough. If an organization meets more than half of those criteria then, it would be a really fucked up organization and I would call it a cult.
Maybe only getting 50-60% of the 100 item list would only qualify you as a religion, granted a really fucked up religion, but a religion that is never the less not as cult-ish as it could be.
Or maybe scoring around the 50% mark means it's merely a slightly less dangerous cult than one that scores closer to the 90% mark...
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.