But i guess cults might not have wanted to be called a religion or maybe religious people (old religion) did not want to classify what are now known as cults today as a type of religion.

Either one of them is trying to push the other away and due to my lack of knowledge i am not sure which, but i would put my money on old religion being the cause of this. I would guess that European missionaries saw different religions being practiced in outside lands and probably called them cults because it was not normal to them because they were so stupid and narrow minded, in their world their God, thier religion, was their life because all they read and knew was their bible.

So in a sense all religions are not and are cults. It depends on the popularity of the religion to an individual and many other people may agree/disagree with the individual, which would further make the decision of making a religion a cult or not.
so basically: [many people see a religion as a cult (not normal)=cult] or [many people see a religion as is(normal)=religion]

Believe it or not, accept it or not, but normalness is a key component to everyday classification. You know coz if there was no normalness we would have chaos and not know what the fuck was going on. To say that normal does not exist is not being logical because logic is all about understanding what is normal. You would not jump off a cliff because normally people die if they do. You would jump if you had a parachute because normally people survive the fall. You would logically say that, yeah normal. what the dealy yo?

lengthy and all im saying is that it depends on the majority of the people just as the dictionary states. Its all about mainstream. Who wears white wigs? Do you think you would? logically you would not coz… normalness. I was looking for a cartoon of stewie saying you suck then saw a religion based arguement and could not resist after noticing the lack of acknowledgement to the meaning of “normal.”

Saying something is valid just because a majority of people do it is not good logic. Not only that, but it's circular to the point of the absurd…

* Slavery had a large majority behind it for how many hundreds of years?
* The average European/American, not too long ago, used to be OK with witch burnings.
* Many modern, and dumb, Americans believe that God somehow created the world, and that Jesus coexisted with dinosaurs. Despite the Vatican putting its weight behind Evolution, which has been solidly proven for decades at this point.
* The same group of people also believe the LHC is the antichrist, going to create blackholes, or otherwise cause the destruction of humanity.

Do you need me to continue? Next time you should try a little harder. Maybe you'll eventually get it right.

Oh, and by the way… I'm not saying that a certain religion or two is “extremish or cultish” because I “don't buy into [their] set of religious beliefs”. I'm saying that ALL religions are cults, but not necessarily extreme.

If you want someone more famous and pedigreed than myself speaking on this topic, look at Richard Dawkins. He'll destroy you.

–Kyle

Saying something is valid just because a majority of people do it is not good logic. Not only that, but it's circular to the point of the absurd…

* Slavery had a large majority behind it for how many hundreds of years?
* The average European/American, not too long ago, used to be OK with witch burnings.
* Many modern, and dumb, Americans believe that God somehow created the world, and that Jesus coexisted with dinosaurs. Despite the Vatican putting its weight behind Evolution, which has been solidly proven for decades at this point.
* The same group of people also believe the LHC is the antichrist, going to create blackholes, or otherwise cause the destruction of humanity.

Do you need me to continue? Next time you should try a little harder. Maybe you'll eventually get it right.

Oh, and by the way… I'm not saying that a certain religion or two is “extremish or cultish” because I “don't buy into [their] set of religious beliefs”. I'm saying that ALL religions are cults, but not necessarily extreme.

If you want someone more famous and pedigreed than myself speaking on this topic, look at Richard Dawkins. He'll destroy you.

–Kyle

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I don’t necessarily agree with the “2/3 believe in God”, but I can’t really argue since that’s what I referenced. But I’ve seen numbers in supposedly non-biased publications as high as 60% (don’t believe in God, or some higher power).

–Kyle