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What is a Cult?
Running Away From My Church Blog ^
| 2/07/18
| Robert Messner
Posted on 02/10/2018 7:10:14 AM PST by tiredofallofit
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To: tiredofallofit
To: tiredofallofit
Good morning.
Since you gave me the courtesy of a reply, I’ll just ask: If this was (is) important, and since your audience is gathered right here, and since all the discussion happens right here, why didn’t you just post the last couple paragraphs right here?
My (only slightly flippant) definition of a cultist: Someone who stops in the middle of a street sermon, and says you have to come to his “hideout” for more.
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posted on
02/10/2018 8:18:21 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
To: skr
I don’t think naming the cult is the point but that one should be wary of one’s church turning into a cult.p>Name it and claim it.
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posted on
02/10/2018 8:19:24 AM PST
by
Migraine
((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
To: Hot Tabasco
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posted on
02/10/2018 8:19:36 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
To: skr
I don’t think naming the cult is the point but that one should be wary of one’s church turning into a cult.<
Name it and claim it.
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posted on
02/10/2018 8:20:06 AM PST
by
Migraine
((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
To: Larry Lucido
Que?
Shouldn't you be out shoveling snow????
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posted on
02/10/2018 8:21:47 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
To: Larry Lucido
Ummm...because there is a 300 word limit? I would if I could.
To: tiredofallofit
There is no limit! It’s your work! You can post it all!
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posted on
02/10/2018 8:24:13 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
To: Hot Tabasco
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posted on
02/10/2018 8:24:56 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
To: tiredofallofit
One of my sisters belongs to a cult.
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posted on
02/10/2018 8:25:08 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Larry Lucido
Then it’s nap time.......
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posted on
02/10/2018 8:26:15 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
To: tiredofallofit
u can post the rest in the #1 post
To: tiredofallofit; shibumi
Sorry for yelling.
There is no limit. You can post your entire work.
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posted on
02/10/2018 8:26:29 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
To: Hot Tabasco
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posted on
02/10/2018 8:26:54 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
To: Larry Lucido
Okay. Thanks for letting me know. I didn’t know that.
To: tiredofallofit
That’s why I left the Episcopal “church” ... you had to believe a gay Bishop was God’s Law ... c ‘ya ... that “church” is no loss to me, but I am a loss for them! I don’t like socializing with liberals, darned if I’m going to be told how to pray with them.
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posted on
02/10/2018 9:11:51 AM PST
by
ThePatriotsFlag
(We are getting even more than we voted for!)
To: Hot Tabasco
To: tiredofallofit
Frankly, I believe that these types of churches are far more “normal” then people think. Thousands of small independent fundamentalist churches dot the American landscape; you probably drive past a couple every week on your way to church. I know that I do. Well, the writer has an agenda to bad mouth those churches.
By implying that they are by default organizations which shun the *outside* world, just because they are small and independent is intellectual dishonesty.
Being part of a big name organization is not any guarantee of not being a cult or not shunning the *outside* world either.
Scripture gives us the warnings we need to avoid false teaching.
1 Timothy 4:1-5 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
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posted on
02/10/2018 9:30:54 AM PST
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: trisham
My sister, too. She’s a Socialist.
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posted on
02/10/2018 9:33:25 AM PST
by
originalbuckeye
('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
To: tiredofallofit
The 300 word limit is only for excerpting things.
NOTHING is preventing you from posting the entire thing.
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posted on
02/10/2018 9:34:19 AM PST
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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