Church forced girl, 15, to apologize for pregnancy by rape

[highwaystar101]

sapphi_snake said:

highwaystar101 said:

sapphi_snake said:

Are't all religions "cults"?

I wouldn't say so, religions are formed of a wide variety of beliefs and interpretations. One Christian is not the same as the next, for example. Where as a cult, this disparity in thinking across the group is almost non-existant.

This is true, but in a small, tight community, doesn't the religion become a cult? For example, Christianity at large is a religion, but doesn't each individual local Church congregation act as a cult?

There are certainly inclusive local churches that do act like cults (such as WBC). But typically I think most churches can associate themselves with a larger group (Catholic, protestant, Lutheran, etc) so they have a link to a larger organisation.