How shall we define “cult”—and what if we were to define it thus?:
cult— n. any group in which the beliefs and practices of the group are guarded from the free, honest, and rational investigation and discussion of the members
If that were the definition, is there anyone among us who has never been a cult member?
And if this is our sad state, how twisted it is that so many are so hellbent on pointing out the cultishness of other groups and ignoring that of their own?
So many love to think they have won the battle by condemning the cultishness of other groups, even as they live in surrender to the cultishness of their own. And what more pernicious social trap is there than this?
