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From: jca@abnji.UUCP (james armstrong)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Cults and Christians
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 11:44:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 11:44:32 1985
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>>I think the term cult in general terminology today means:
>>
>>1. Any religion that teaches that man can become God.
>>2. Any religion that teaches that Jesus was not God.
>>
>>These two beliefs are opposed to christianity which is what uses the
>>term cult.
>
>I really would like to know how karen aka larry came on to this definition.
>If we really follow it we find the world is divided into christians and
>cultists exclusively and exhaustively...interesting.

I don't believe that that definition includes atheists or agnostics.  Atheism,
as often "practiced" is not a religion, in fact is a denial of all religion.

JCA,