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religious civilisation != cult. in other words, it's ironic, but only in the alanis morissette way.

• etherael 17y ago
  I'd dispute the distinction, witness how quickly just the mention of a civilisation as "most religious" is taken as an attack upon that civilisation. Once upon a time perhaps the difference between a religion and a cult was that a cult was a religion without the good press, but the reaction to even characterising a thing as a religion being classed as an attack by so many people seemingly subconsciously, it seems that they're both negative labels now. Can't say it particularly bothers me personally, quite the contrary.
• billswift 17y ago
  The only difference between a "cult" and any other religion is numbers. Rather like how Hobbes pointed out that the only difference between superstition and religion is that the latter is publically endorsed.