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I’m also not allowed to forget about Coca-Cola. Or Taylor Swift. Or Meta. Or the sun.
What does “it’s giving cult” mean? Like it’s a cult around giving?
And here you are talking about it and making the rest of us think about it.
They’re passing a new law in Utah this year that all public schools MUST display the Ten Commandments where every student can see. It doesn’t matter if most of the students aren’t Christian or if they are from other religious backgrounds - all that matters in Utah is that you conform to the legislatures’ narrow view of what a person is ALLOWED to believe.
They passed a law in Kentucky that all schools had to display ‘In God We Trust’ on their walls, so a school decided to do some malicious compliance and framed a dollar bill.
Maybe the Utah schools can post them in the original Hebrew.
Christianity can’t really be a cult because it isn’t centralized at all. There are definitely christian denominations with some cult like qualities, like the mormons and jehovah’s witnesses, but christianity as a whole is definitely not a cult.
To be clear I’m definitely not saying christianity is good, it has as many problems as any other religion, it just isn’t really a cult, if we apply the word cult so broadly it loses it’s usefulness. If we say christianity as a whole is a cult, then we need a new word to refer to the actual individual groups within christianity that we would usually call cults. It doesn’t really make sense to say that mormons and jehovah’s witnesses are a single cult, so what would we call them? There’s an important distinction to be made between a single group with strict control over its members and a general set of beliefs.
There is no requirement that a cult be centralized. Christianity and other religions are essentially fandoms(or tribes) organized (somewhat loosely) around shared principles. The major difference between a cult and a fandom is if it is deemed socially helpful or harmful by society (or the ruling class) at large.
cults only recently got negative connotations.
most cults are harmless.
where did you get that definition of a cult?
