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Whats the difference between a cult and a religion?
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RE: Whats the difference between a cult and a religion?
(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.
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RE: Whats the difference between a cult and a religion? - by Clueless Morgan - May 14, 2014 at 10:45 am

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