Is Mormonism a cult?

March 11, 2012

source: Huffington Post

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MR says: The author of this article is Matthew Bowman, the author of 'The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith.'

To many Americans, Mormon theology seems an impenetrable stew of biblical literalism, weird relics and a supernaturalism so aggressive as to border on science fiction, stirred together by a parade of shady self-declared prophets, from the frontier polygamist Joseph Smith to the complacent, dark-suited elders who run the church today. "Plutocratic oligarchs," Harold Bloom labeled them: men (all men; women are barred from participation in the Mormon priesthood) either cynically manipulating the religion for personal gain or themselves taken in.

Does this confection make the religion a cult, as commentators as wide on the spectrum as the evangelical Baptist Robert Jeffress and the acerbic atheist Christopher Hitchens have speculated?

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handyman said...

08:19 PM
on Mar 14, 2012

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Too bad that many Americans are deluded by the word "cult" by many bloggers. media outlets, such as news, and the self professed psychologists. The definiton of cult by academic scholars is set forth. Just look it up. All Religions, and not just Christian alone, are a cult no matter the doctrine. All do religious veneration:worship. All religions view each others doctrines as jaust as unorthodox to their doctrine being orthodox.

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