Is the Catholic faith a Cult?

[Stu Pidasso]

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When I was in Bible School, a cult had certain definitions that mainstream demoninations didn't

I couldn't recall all of them so I found some on here


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The Catholic religion has over 1 billion members, I think your stretching it a bit by saying they are not mainstream.

I can make up my own definitions on the marks of a cult to suit my own purposes. If I wanted I could claim the Methodist or Baptist are cults simply using the definition that a cult is any religion or sect with fewer than 1 billion members.

In the end it doesn't really matter what I do or believe. Its society that defines what is and what is not a cult. I'm catholic and its been my observation that society in general does not look upon me as a member of a cult. Thats not to say there isn't an occasional whackjob here or there who thinks I'm a cultist.

Stu

[JackWhite]

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I'm not fond of the Catholic Church, but I have far more respect for it than I do for the fundamentalist cesspool of American Protestantism.

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I am so glad to see tolerance is thriving again.

[bernie]

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And the link you used is hilarious at best once you track it down to the root page.

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And of course the links you tend to provide for your stances are from completely unbiased sources themselves.

b

[jack spade23]

The catholic church has some practices that non catholics could percieve as cult-like, however i dont believe that it is one. That said, i am pretty sure the op is intending to start a "catholics suck" atmosphere. Maybe i am wrong, (it happens a lot) however that is how i kinda percieved it.

[ACPlayer]

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an atheist credo is a cult.

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Do we have a ring on a finger, attached to a man, that we kiss?