maklelan wrote:Servant wrote:Grow up guy! "Ignorant" and "bigoted" are not the only words in the dictionary.
You know very well that I'm quite articulate and can have a lot to say. It's just that you're just repeating your ignorant dogmatism over and over again.Servant wrote:Well, it's your life and if you want to live it functioning as a spoke in a wheel which you've intellecutally rejected, your problem!
There are pseudo-Christians who are called cultists, and non-Christian cults as well. Non-Christian cults include those groups which have spun off of other religions: Nichiren Buddhism, Hare Krishnas, etc. Maybe you should study cult apologetics.
I have, Catherine. More than you. As I already pointed out, you need to study the sociology of it. Real scholars call them New Religious Movements, though, not "cults." That word is for sectarians, and it has nothing to do with scholarship.
Actually, I have studied the sociology of cults, working even with secular groups; and have studied that subject longer than you have existed! I was a member of EMNR - Evangelical Ministry to New Religions (around its inception) when directing a cult apologetics ministry in New Jersey. But, in the case of Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Scientists, Unification, and the rest of them - the word "cults" is sufficient to identify these doctrinally deviant groups. Really, these "new religions" are simply rehashes of old heresies. Mormonism, for instance, mixes Universalism, Seekerism, pagan polythesim, and the classic ploy of having a near supernatural founder who heard directly from God. So did Sun Myung Moon and Mary Baker Eddy - right?