Posted by:
SusieQ#1
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Date: January 08, 2015 04:31PM
All religions are cults, according to a dictionary definition. I refrain from using it in a derogatory, inflammatory manner as I don't find useful and not very credible.
Those that have not lived in a strong Baptist, or Catholic or Evangelical area, for instance, think that only Mormonism does this or that, is in politics, etc. Not true. Many areas are highly influenced by religious beliefs. For instance, football and other sports games in the South often start with prayer, as well as city meetings.
Religion will be part of the landscape and part of the human experience everywhere in the world as it's part of what makes us human.
Some even go so far to think that Mormonism is only lived and understood the way they lived it and everything different is not the "only true" religion. Having lived in many areas as an LDS woman, I can attest that there are about as many different kinds of Mormonism as there are Mormons. I often repeated that as a Mormon, also as I saw it everywhere. I was continually surprised by how people interpreted the religion and lived it from the most fanatical Letter of the Law to the relaxed, easy going, Spirit of the Law members. Every Ward/Stake I attended had members in every level of both of those categories. There are many more categories, such as the Five Kinds of Mormons by Kirby:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1TSNP_enUS489US489&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=kirby%20five%20kinds%20of%20mormons