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Religion vs Cult - What are the differences?

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Religion vs Cult - What are the differences?
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RE: Religion vs Cult - What are the differences?
February 4, 2015 at 9:04 am
THOSE people belong to a cult.

WE belong to a religion.

I think that's the difference, in a nutshell.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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Religion vs Cult - What are the differences?

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Religion vs Cult - What are the differences? - by IanHulett - February 3, 2015 at 10:05 pm
RE: Religion vs Cult - What are the differences? - by Chad32 - February 3, 2015 at 10:14 pm
RE: Religion vs Cult - What are the differences? - by AFTT47 - February 3, 2015 at 10:23 pm
RE: Religion vs Cult - What are the differences? - by Chad32 - February 3, 2015 at 10:26 pm
RE: Religion vs Cult - What are the differences? - by Tonus - February 4, 2015 at 9:04 am

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