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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: MHCS results
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 22:00:34 EST
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> From: larryg@teklds.UUCP (Karen Gardner)
> Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 15:40:42 EST
>
> I really think this should be moved to net.religion or something but
> here goes anyway, since you are discussing it here.
> 
> 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.
> 
> karen alias larryg

First, we are not here defining the word cult.  Cult is a label with
negative connotations and no real negative substance.  What we are really
doing here is saying "these are the groups we will insult with this
otherwise meaniongless term".  And, oh, what a list of groups that is, from
the starry heights of the Upanishads through the wisdom of the Talmud to the
inaction-in-action of the Tao, through all other religions save that one
which calls Jesus its savior, and even then excluding some Christian sects.

Thus the definition: Christianity is the only religion.  All else is
"cults".  I think we should all send money to Karen for making this so
luminously clear.
-=-
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"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are
but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."
Liber AL, II:9.