(09-09-2016, 04:29 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: I went to a church for about 10 years that many people called a cult. It was because of their dogma.
Like I said, most people have an aversion to the word and use it in a pejorative sense, but traditionally the term is not necessarily negative in nature. Society likes to change the meaning of words.
"The word "cult" was originally used not to describe a group of religionists, but for the act of worship or religious ceremony. It was first used in the early 17th century, borrowed via the French culte, from Latin cultus (worship). This, in turn, was derived from the adjective cultus (inhabited, cultivated, worshiped), based on the verb colere (care, cultivate). The word "culture" is also derived from the Latin words cultura and cultus, which in general terms refers to the customary beliefs, social forms and material traits of a religious or social group." --wikipedia