In religion and sociology, a cult is a term designating a cohesive group of people (generally, but not exclusively a relatively small and recently founded religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be outside the mainstream or ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult
Heres another def: adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices
Pretty much all the definitions you find are about the same. A cult is simply a group people with the same beliefs, so pretty much most of religions. The term cult has a lot of connotations though. It generally gives the impression of a group that is sacrificing things and worshipping all sorts of strange things. That is not define what a cult is though, that is simply what a lot of people associate with the term. You could apply the word cult to most religious practices.
As far as hearing that morminism is made up and a cult. Well I guess it is a cult in the fact that it is a group of people that share a belief, but calling mormons a cult is probably not a politicaly correct thing. Not with all the negative connotations people associate with the word. And as far as it being made up, I guess most people would say any religion that is not thiers is made up, right? I mean catholocism was organized in 325 bc during the Nicæa Council. It was a group of political and religious figures that got together and came up with the creed that most all the christian world follows. There are more than a few people that would call that made up. I mean, you can't say that a few ideas didn't sneak in there from some corrupt political/religious figures. Come on, some of the creed principals are nowhere to be found in the bible.
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