re: #129 MagnaniomousCoward

I meant to say that there are cults within Christianity at large. I guess no “cult” is mainstream by definition.

I just don’t want to give any judgement about if LDS is part of it or not. As I said, I know too little about it.

My church organization has been called a cult. That’s died off but in the 70’s it was listed as such in a number of mainstream christian publications. After our leaders talked with most of them, and went over our doctrines all but a couple dropped the cult label. Those that persisted also included other accusations beside merely being a cult. After literally a decade or more of trying to work things out between christian brothers a libel suit was filed and won.

For the record I’m to ornery, and independent minded to be told to do anything, I wouldn’t last 30 seconds in a cult and have been fellowshipping 20 years with the group.

As to the LDS, I don’t call them a cult. Do have have doctrinal differences with them? Sure, but not a cult in the common definition of the word.