Is the CAtholic Church a cult ?

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well ?

― anthony, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OH YES ITS QUITE DRUIDIC. CHANTS, ROBES, CANDLES

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think all religions are forms of cults.

― Ally, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dunno - is ritual the same as cultishness? I'm a VERY lapsed Catholic. I was never prevented from 'leaving' the church, and nobody has ever tried to drag me back into it, spiritually or literally. The Catholic Church is a business as much as anything else, and as such it's prob. no more or less sinister/wicked than any other major corp. Of course there is always an element of brainwashing/indoctrination involved w/relgions, but in the case of the Catholic Church it's not a particularly difficult 'program' to resist, in my experience.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Those rituals become so cliche over the years that they don't have the ability to awe, psychologically. I didn't find it hard to leave the church because when I did go, I just saw a bunch of bored parishioners shuffling and mumbling their way through the Mass. Then there was Father Football, who could say a 25 minute mass whenever Notre Dame was playing on a Sunday. We always went to that one.

― Kerry, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ILE is a cult.

― Sean, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THE ONLY GOOD THINGS ABOUT CATHOLICISM IS THE INCREASED SEX APPETITE AND THE FACT THAT THEY LET YOU BELEIVE IN EVOLUTIONA ND TEH BIG BANG AND ARE NOT BIBLE LITERALISTS

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

catholicism is beautiful.

― ethan, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't flatter it, cults are way more exciting.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't believe any GOOD Religion is a cult. I do believe though that the Catholic Church is in a good position financially of giving more food and medicine to needy people.

― Gale Deslongchamps, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, it is. It's older and, therefore, more acceptable than other cults. No word conveys absolute truth, which is why I find pedantic discussions quite funny. As if nailing down just the right word is going to justify your description. A description is never complete or true. About the Catholic Church's cult status: Most people would tell you "no". Others would tell you "yes". The dictionary offers both "yes" and "no":

cult (klt)

n. 

1.	

a.	A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, 

with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the 

guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.

b.	The followers of such a religion or sect.



2.	A system or community of religious worship and ritual.

3.	The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony 

and ritual.

4.	A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have 

exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.

5.	

a.	Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, 

principle, or thing.

b.	The object of such devotion.



6.	An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or 

intellectual interest.

To some, these definitions imply "no". To me, each one implies "yes".

― Nude Spock, Wednesday, 12 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

wow yall.

― afa the i can c (roxymuzak), Sunday, 6 December 2009 09:57 (fifteen years ago)

The only diff between cult and religion is the number of followers and the level of mainstream acceptance. If everyone's doing it, it's not unconventional, right?

― mh, Sunday, 6 December 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

Wikipedia on padre pio is fuckin hilarious

― bob_sleigher (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:17 (twelve years ago)

One of my aunts has a picture of Padre Pio in her living room and I always do a double take and think it's John Virgo.

― no man is an islam (onimo), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 14:40 (twelve years ago)

Bilocation

― bob_sleigher (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 14:45 (twelve years ago)

Considering how ill he seemed to have been for his entire life he did well to hit 81. I don't imagine too many peasant children born in the 1880s lived that long.

― no man is an islam (onimo), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:00 (twelve years ago)

Depending on how dubious you consider his varying ailments to have been, i guess

― bob_sleigher (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:08 (twelve years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Padre-Pio-young.jpg

seems legit

― goole, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:15 (twelve years ago)

Show off

― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:21 (twelve years ago)

'sup'

― bob_sleigher (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:32 (twelve years ago)

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