Comment on In 1992, Sinead O'Connor tore a picture of Pope John Paul II in half during a performance on SNL in protest against generations of abuse toward children within the Catholic church.

• EhList@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No they are not and it’s an ignorant claim to make. You can leave a religion without the members having to cut ties with you and religions tend to not care if you have individually given money. Cults disfellowship people who leave and are very focused on your donations.

  Given how ignorant you are over what a cult vs religion is I don’t think you should be generalizing about any one religion’s beliefs.

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  • dcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it’s not like apostasy is a requirement for the definition of a cult.

    depending on which of the dictionary definitions you’re going by, a cult could be anything from a religious system of veneration for a figure, to a group with extreme beliefs outside of that of an established religion.

    to me it seems like the only common denominator for all of the definitions is that the group is smaller than that of a religion.

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    • EhList@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And thus we are back to my point that a group containing 1/8th of all people isn’t a cult

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