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NeoGreen

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Sun Oct 22, 2017, 07:02 AM Oct 2017

How many Religions can you name that... [View all]

...are not cults, by definition:


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult


cult

1 :formal religious veneration :worship
2 :a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also :its body of adherents
the cult of Apollo

3 :a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious (see spurious 2); also :its body of adherents
the voodoo cult
a satanic cult

4 :a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator
health cults

5 a :great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (such as a film or book)
criticizing how the media promotes the cult of celebrity
; especially :such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad
b :the object of such devotion
c :a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
the singer's cult of fans
The film has a cult following.
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