“Going Clear:” Scientology’s coverup efforts against the HBO documentary

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62. I wasn't the one making the assertion, justin was.

"This is a cult and not a religion Imho."

He apparently thinks they should be locked up or disbanded.

From Wiki:


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).[9] 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 racial, religious or social group.[10] Most of the Romance languages currently use various spellings of the word "cult" (such as "culto&quot to refer to worship or sometimes to a ritual without any pejorative meaning at all, resulting in a class of false friends.[citation needed]

While the literal sense of the word in English is still in use, a derived sense of "excessive devotion" arose in the 19th century. The terms cult and cultist came to be used in medical literature in the United States in the 1930s for what would now be termed faith healing, especially for the US Holiness movement. This experienced a surge of popularity at the time, but extended to other forms of alternative medicine as well.[11]