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[lawgator1]

His campaign manager in Iowa called Mormonism a cult and has resigned.

Cannot imagine why people view the GOP as closed minded and bigoted.

 

[NEO]

Is south park closed minded?

Because last time I checked they hit the nail on the head with the Mormom beliefs and those guys are freaking liberals.

 

[utvolpj]

couldn't they all be described that way?

Is south park closed minded?

Because last time I checked they hit the nail on the head with the Mormom beliefs and those guys are freaking liberals.

they're really not

 

[trevols81]

Is south park closed minded?

Because last time I checked they hit the nail on the head with the Mormom beliefs and those guys are freaking liberals.

They are? To me they hate on all stupidity, equallly.

But I have no glasses to tint so I must be unusual.

 

[NEO]

yes, they all could be defined that way to one extreme or another.

but i still find the mormon episode extremely funny.

but ... and i must be honest ... i love the "tell one lie" commercial and all the other ones from the 80's that ended with the ".... Church of the latter day saints. (cute kid voice) THE MORMONS."

 

[trevols81]

Mormans are sillly. But, I consider all organized(and evangelical) religion silly.

 

[volinbham]

His campaign manager in Iowa called Mormonism a cult and has resigned.

Cannot imagine why people view the GOP as closed minded and bigoted.

Says the guy that made a blanket statement that religious conservatives are against Romney because he's a mormon.

 

[gsvol]

Which is exactly where Illinois democrat Obama should be.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Is south park closed minded?

Because last time I checked they hit the nail on the head with the Mormom beliefs and those guys are freaking liberals.

Pretty sure if they're anything, they're libertarian.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

His campaign manager in Iowa called Mormonism a cult and has resigned.

Cannot imagine why people view the GOP as closed minded and bigoted.

So wait... you don't agree that Mormonism (or Christianity) isn't a cult? :ermm: :crazy:

 

[lawgator1]

So wait... you don't agree that Mormonism (or Christianity) isn't a cult? :ermm: :crazy:

My personal definition does not automatically describe as a cult every religion that isn't Protestant. And that is EXACTLY the definition of cult the right wing GOP uses.

 

[therealUT]

All around the mulberry bush
The monkeys chase the weasel...

 

[therealUT]

What religion is not a 'cult'?

cult, n. and adj.2

Pronunciation: /kʌlt/

Etymology: < Latin cultus worship ( < col&#277;re to attend to, cultivate, respect, etc.), and its French adaptation culte (1611 Cotgrave). Used in 17th cent. (? from Latin), and then rarely till the middle of the 19th, when often spelt culte as in French.


†1. Worship; reverential homage rendered to a divine being or beings. Obs. (exc. as in sense 2).
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. ix. 371 You tell vs most absurdly of a diuine cult&#8229;for so cult you are, or so quilted in your tearmes.
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. ix. 380 You&#8229;referre it to the cult that you so foolishly talked of.
1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 92 That Sovereign Cult due to God only.
a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. ix. 39 God, abolishing the cult of Gentile idols.

2.

a. A particular form or system of religious worship; esp. in reference to its external rites and ceremonies.
1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants ii. App. 245 Let not every circumstantial difference or Variety of Cult be Nick-named a new Religion.
1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. Virtue in Characteristicks i. iii. §2 In the Cult or Worship of such a Deity.
1850 W. E. Gladstone Homer II. 211 While she [Proserpine] has a cult or worship on earth, he [Aidoneus] apparently has none.
1859 L. Oliphant China & Japan I. xii. 242 They are devoted in their attentions to the objects of their culte.
1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece xi. 350 The cult of Aphrodite.

b. Now freq. used attrib. by writers on cultic ritual and the archæology of primitive cults.
1901 A. J. Evans Mycenaean Tree & Pillar Cult 25 Aniconic Cult Images.
1901 A. J. Evans Mycenaean Tree & Pillar Cult 77 Cult Scenes relating to a Warrior God and his Consort.
1903 Folk-lore Sept. 264 The image of the patron deity, usually a simple copy of the cult statue.
1903 Folk-lore Sept. 269 Inscriptions found at various cult-centres.
1904 Hastings's Dict. Bible V. 118/1 The female Divinity must be represented by the female animal, in order to carry out the mythological tale or the cult-act.
1906 D. G. Hogarth in Proc. Brit. Acad. 1905–6 375 Small objects dedicated in that temple, among which are several cult-figurines of the Goddess.
1928 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Steppe & Sown 104 Already in Early Minoan times the double axe had become, not only a symbol of authority, but a cult object.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Apocalypse (1931) vii. 117 Cult-lore was the wisdom of the old races.
1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments vi. 349 The earliest cult-image of the goddess.
1950 Scott. Jrnl. Theol. 3 368 The rôle of the king in the great cult-drama at the beginning of every new year.
1957 Antiquity & Survival II. 167/1 Near it a cult mask, made of clay, was still lying on the floor.&#8229; In a further room, we discovered a unique cult-standard&#8229;made of bronze, with a tang to fasten it to a pole.

3. transf. Devotion or homage to a particular person or thing, now esp. as paid by a body of professed adherents or admirers.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks (1737) iii. i. I. 281 Convinc'd of the Reality of a better Self, and of the Cult or Homage which is due to It.
1829 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) I. 238 These cults are generally to be found in the same house.
1879 Q. Rev. Apr. 368 The cult of beauty as the most vivid image of Truth.
1889 John Bull 2 Mar. 141/2 An evidence of the decay of the Wordsworth cult.

Draft additions June 2004

A relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister.
1927 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 10 Oct. 18/1 Evidence that the strange burial of a youthful ‘priestess’ of the religious cult&#8229;may have been preceded by ritualistic and unreported burials of other cult members&#8229;sent investigators today to widely separated spots in the mountains of southern California.
1957 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 22 561/2 An opportunity to study public reaction to a man whose small band of followers regarded him as Christ (and who himself acknowledged that status) arose.&#8229; We were able to&#8229;facilitate fairly systematic study of this embryonic cult.
1976 Newsweek (Nexis) 14 June 60 Unlike the Eastern cults that form around gurus, the Moonies make it psychologically difficult for their followers to leave.
1980 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 85 1377 Cults&#8229;, like other deviant social movements, tend to recruit people with a grievance, people who suffer from some variety of deprivation.
1994 W. Shaw Spying in Guru Land (1995) p. xi, He introduced many of them to ‘astral travelling’; in mild trance states they would ‘leave their bodies’ and return with more dreams and myths to add to the growing lore of the cult.

Draft additions August 2001
Designating cultural phenomena with a strong, often enduring appeal to a relatively small audience; (also) designating this appeal or audience, or any resultant success; fringe, non-mainstream. Hence: possessing a fashionable or exclusive cachet; spec. (of artistic figures or works) having a reputation or influence disproportionate to their limited public exposure or commercial success. Freq. in cult figure, cult status.
1961 R. Heppenstall Fourfold Trad. ii. ii. 145 This is asking a lot of the general reader and helps to keep Ulysses in its curious position as a cult book.
1968 Punch 3 July 32/2 There has been a small cult-following for [Nathanael] West.
1970 Times 5 Nov. 14/6 There is some part of her in all of us, so that whatever our reaction to her, it cannot be one of indifference. It is easy to see how she could diminish into a fashionable cult-figure.
1976 Scotsman 20 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 3/1 The fact that it became something of a cult book should not be held against its author now.
1985 Music Week 2 Feb. (Advt. Suppl.), Bauhaus&#8229;achieved the highest level of cult success in the UK from '81–'83, with four silver albums.
1991 Twenty Twenty Spring 92/3 Tolkien's Lord of the Rings&#8229;became a major publishing phenomenon when its late Sixties Ballantine paperback edition attained campus cult status.
1993 Boulevard Spring 25 Eraserhead was a midnight cult movie, but Blue Velvet was the movie that made Lynch famous.
2000 F. Walker in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 39 Last year's pop sensation Ruby ‘Red’ Richmond had been supposedly in lurve with cult actor Slim Tim Gorman for several weeks.

 

[PKT_VOL]

What religion is not a 'cult'?

Every formal definition of "cult" is ambiguous at best. The day-to-day definition of "cult" seems to be an eye test and normally follows when people from all walks of life say "WTF?!?" Examples: Heaven's Gate and Jonestown.

 

[GAVol]

His campaign manager in Iowa called Mormonism a cult and has resigned.

Cannot imagine why people view the GOP as closed minded and bigoted.

Wouldn't the fact that his comments were not tolerated indicate the opposite?

 

[GAVol]

Every formal definition of "cult" is ambiguous at best. The day-to-day definition of "cult" seems to be an eye test and normally follows when people from all walks of life say "WTF?!?" Examples: Heaven's Gate and Jonestown.

My Church of Christ Grandmother prays everyday that I'll leave the Baptist cult.

 

[PKT_VOL]

My Church of Christ Grandmother prays everyday that I'll leave the Baptist cult.

Haha. Oh those evil Baptists! Must make for some interesting family gatherings.

 

[YorkVol]

We belong to Cavalry Chapel which is regarded as a cult by some mainstream denominations. It is mostly sedate with easy listening type music and an hour of Bible teaching each week. But, we often attend a very evangelical Baptist Church complete with the Gospel Choir, a prototypical preacher who sings and dances his sermon with lots of encouragement from the pews. We love both, but recognize that either could be considered somewhat silly from an outsider's perspective.

Bottom line is one man's cult is another man's state religion. The only time I have an issue with it is when someone tries to forcefully impose their views on me. I'm willing to have respectful conversations and debates on the topic, but beyond that, I want to be left alone. And if someone wants to die for their religion, I say let them, so long as they aren't taking anyone else with them, they are free to see if they had the right answer.

 

[dreVol]

Is there a link to the story?

 

[therealUT]

Is there a link to the story?

 

[joevol320]

His campaign manager in Iowa called Mormonism a cult and has resigned.

Cannot imagine why people view the GOP as closed minded and bigoted.

are you serious law, your party is the most closed minded, racist party. your party has to label every American and put them in a box. God forbid they sway away from the plantation or crawl out of the box. If your party disagrees with a view, they shut them in colleges, or sends unions out to protest and agitate. your party bashes Christians every chance they get and do their utmost to pass laws that bans Christians from speech. your comment is very ignorant, stupid and foolish, but not suprising.

 

[PKT_VOL]

are you serious law, your party is the most closed minded, racist party. your party has to label every American and put them in a box. God forbid they sway away from the plantation or crawl out of the box. If your party disagrees with a view, they shut them in colleges, or sends unions out to protest and agitate. your party bashes Christians every chance they get and do their utmost to pass laws that bans Christians from speech. your comment is very ignorant, stupid and foolish, but not suprising.

Wow. Pot meet kettle.

 

[therealUT]

are you serious law, your party is the most closed minded, racist party. your party has to label every American and put them in a box. God forbid they sway away from the plantation or crawl out of the box. If your party disagrees with a view, they shut them in colleges, or sends unions out to protest and agitate. your party bashes Christians every chance they get and do their utmost to pass laws that bans Christians from speech. your comment is very ignorant, stupid and foolish, but not suprising.

My favorite subject is recess.

 

[lawgator1]

Wouldn't the fact that his comments were not tolerated indicate the opposite?

He was ousted for purposes of the general election embarrassment factor, but he spoke the truth as far as the Evangelical wing is concerned

Polls of such voters repeatedly demonstrate a significant disdain for the Mormon religion, and also further show that it is a meaningful thing to such voters.

 

[dreVol]

well played, sir