It's not the ideas or thinking of a religion that make an organized religion or spiritual path a "cult". It is the very impetus of organizing that can make it a "cult". It doesn't matter what concepts, beliefs, dogma around which the organization is formed. It could be Christianity, science, paganism, anything.

It is not the ideas that make the "cult". It is the extent to which the organization excludes those "others". It is the extent to which a group does not balance the process of banding together with the process of expanding, opening to other people and ideas. It is the extent to which the group discourages it's members to be individuals.

Fear is the basis of a cult, not thinking.

Have fun!

=-Kathy->