cults?

[hindupridemn]

I consider the following to be cults. Does anyone know about them and consder them to be cults as well?

Demonolatry
Luciferianism
Satanism
Setianism
Creativity Movement
Church of Jesus Christ - Christian
Kingdom Identity Ministries
La Porte Church of Christ
The Covenant, th Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
Revival Centres International
Revival Fellowship
Worldwide Church of God
Aum Shinrikyo
al Qaeda
Brach Davidians
Heaven's Gate
Thuggees
Mankind United
People's Temple
Synanon
Manson Family
Church of the Lamb of God
MOVE
Ant Hill Kids
Nation of Yahweh
Jeffrey Lundgren
Order of the Solar Temple
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments
Christian Fundamentalism
Jewish Fundamentalism
Islamic Fundamentalism
Hindu Fundamentalism
Juche
Raëlism
Reconstructionist Judaism
Humanistic Judaism
Discordianism
"Ethical" Culture
Fellowship of "Reason"
Deism
Secular Humanism
Atheism/Materialism

 

[InChrist]

I have heard of many of them, but not all. I do consider the ones I know about and even some I have been involved with to be cults. The others I can't say without further research, but they sound like they may be questionable.

 

[Revoltingest]

From dictionary.reference.com, we have.....
cult

1.a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
2.an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.
3.the object of such devotion.
4.a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
5.Sociology . a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.

Many of your items listed don't even remotely fit this definition.

 

[Marble]

I consider the following to be cults. Does anyone know about them and consder them to be cults as well?

Demonolatry
Luciferianism
Satanism
Setianism
Creativity Movement
Church of Jesus Christ - Christian
Kingdom Identity Ministries
La Porte Church of Christ
The Covenant, th Sword, and the Arm of the Lord
Revival Centres International
Revival Fellowship
Worldwide Church of God
Aum Shinrikyo
al Qaeda
Brach Davidians
Heaven's Gate
Thuggees
Mankind United
People's Temple
Synanon
Manson Family
Church of the Lamb of God
MOVE
Ant Hill Kids
Nation of Yahweh
Jeffrey Lundgren
Order of the Solar Temple
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments
Christian Fundamentalism
Jewish Fundamentalism
Islamic Fundamentalism
Hindu Fundamentalism
Juche
Raëlism
Reconstructionist Judaism
Humanistic Judaism
Discordianism
"Ethical" Culture
Fellowship of "Reason"
Deism
Secular Humanism
Atheism/Materialism

You have forgotten Scientology.
Or are they no cult in your opinion?

 

[The Sum of Awe]

I consider the following to be cults. Does anyone know about them and consder them to be cults as well?

Demonolatry

Possibly

Luciferianism
Satanism
Setianism

These are philosophies, how are they cults?

Creativity Movement

Most definitely! I agree with you 100%

Church of Jesus Christ - Christian
Kingdom Identity Ministries
La Porte Church of Christ
The Covenant, th Sword, and the Arm of the Lord

Agree

Revival Centres International
Revival Fellowship

Why?

Worldwide Church of God
Aum Shinrikyo
al Qaeda
Brach Davidians
Heaven's Gate
Thuggees
Mankind United
People's Temple
Synanon
Manson Family
Church of the Lamb of God
MOVE
Ant Hill Kids
Nation of Yahweh
Jeffrey Lundgren
Order of the Solar Temple
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments
Christian Fundamentalism
Jewish Fundamentalism
Islamic Fundamentalism
Hindu Fundamentalism
Juche
Raëlism
Reconstructionist Judaism
Humanistic Judaism

Agree

Discordianism

Why so?

"Ethical" Culture
Fellowship of "Reason"

Never heard of these

Deism

A theological view cannot be a cult, and IMO deism makes much more sense than a personal god.

Secular Humanism

How?

Atheism/Materialism

I'm a member of a cult then, being both a Materialist and an atheist.

 

[Draka]

I'm just surprised to see such a long list of "cults" without Wicca on it. lol

 

[Sylvan]

Your definition is uselessly wide reaching. Try again.

 

[Iti oj]

i have a cult following =D no worries....and i wouldnt consider the LHP cults....

 

[The Sum of Awe]

i have a cult following =D no worries....and i wouldnt consider the LHP cults....

And Deism, and Materialism, etc

 

[Iti oj]

And Deism, and Materialism, etc

yes yes or secularism or atheism etc

 

[Watchmen]

The label "cult" usually says more about the one doing the labeling than the group being labeled, I've found.

 

[HiddenDjinn]

Humanistic and Reconstructionist Judaism are cults? By what definition?

 

[jasonwill2]

threadhop:

wait, im a cult?

What is a cult to you?

edit: looking at the list again, atheism, deism, and a lot of those arnt cults either.

also the fundies are not cults, they take stuff too seriously, but they are not cults.

 

[nnmartin]

I consider the following to be cults. Does anyone know about them and consder them to be cults as well?

"Ethical" Culture
Fellowship of "Reason"
Deism
Secular Humanism
Atheism/Materialism

there are a lot of cults out there in your view- you've even covered atheists! (I agree , they are a cult!)

 

[Iti oj]

there are a lot of cults out there in your view- you've even covered atheists! (I agree , they are a cult!)

i fall into like 3-4 of these cults.... i hope we don't drink the juice all on the same night.

and a cult requires a leader...whos atheist leader?

 

[Revoltingest]

I'm just surprised to see such a long list of "cults" without Wicca on it. lol

You guyz are so establishment now.

The label "cult" usually says more about the one doing the labeling than the group being labeled, I've found.

True dat....with the OP being a shining example.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

i fall into like 3-4 of these cults.... i hope we don't drink the juice all on the same night.

and a cult requires a leader...whos atheist leader?

Satan of course.

 

[Iti oj]

Satan of course.

so atheist follow and worship satan...but satanist do not and both are a cult?

 

[Viker]

This is the problem with 'cult', if it is not obvious that a group is a cult - Branch Davidians, Manson Family or Heaven's Gate to name a few, some one who is religious naming off religious groups they don't agree with as 'cult' is a bit asinine. A bit of the pot calling the kettle black.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I don't get the point of the op here.

Just about anything can be construed as a cult if one decides to go extreme and fanatical causing physical and/or mental harm. It's a cult. Some on the list obviously qualify like Heavens Gate, People's Temple, Manson, and the Ant Hill Kids but others listed are just plain nonsense.