Appeals court scolds Jehovah's Witness organization over failure to turn over molestation records

[SuburbanFarmer]

I'm saying that it is a cult, but no more so than any other organized religion. It's just a more 'fundamentalist' sect of Christianity, nothing more. When we use the word "cult", it implies the white robed, sex abuse, mass suicide, blood ritual shit that we were all scared of in the 90s. That's not the case here, any more than the Amish or Mormons.

My Catholic relatives still talk to me, even though I've rejected their faith. I learned some serious nonsense in the CC, but nobody ever threatened that I would lose my family. That's serious shit to lay down on children.

God is a serious idea. It's not just an insurance policy, to those people - it's all that matters.

[K@th]

God is a serious idea. It's not just an insurance policy, to those people - it's all that matters.

Another reason it's a cult. LOL...

[SuburbanFarmer]

God is a serious idea. It's not just an insurance policy, to those people - it's all that matters.

Another reason it's a cult. LOL...

Again, same as any organized religion. We in the West tend to use them as a sort of 'insurance policy', and casually maintain some allegiance to one religion or another. If you take it seriously though, it looks a whole lot like the JWs.

[K@th]

Again, same as any organized religion. We in the West tend to use them as a sort of 'insurance policy', and casually maintain some allegiance to one religion or another. If you take it seriously though, it looks a whole lot like the JWs.

If what you are saying were true, my Catholic family would not have spoken to me in the last 15 years, yet, we talk quite a bit - they even stayed at my non-religious house over Thanksgiving last year.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Again, same as any organized religion. We in the West tend to use them as a sort of 'insurance policy', and casually maintain some allegiance to one religion or another. If you take it seriously though, it looks a whole lot like the JWs.

If what you are saying were true, my Catholic family would not have spoken to me in the last 15 years, yet, we talk quite a bit - they even stayed at my non-religious house over Thanksgiving last year.

read my post again.

Catholics tend to go with 'show up once a week and forget it'. The confession, the rituals, all designed to remove any personal responsibility for absolution.

[K@th]

Again, same as any organized religion. We in the West tend to use them as a sort of 'insurance policy', and casually maintain some allegiance to one religion or another. If you take it seriously though, it looks a whole lot like the JWs.

If what you are saying were true, my Catholic family would not have spoken to me in the last 15 years, yet, we talk quite a bit - they even stayed at my non-religious house over Thanksgiving last year.

read my post again.

Catholics tend to go with 'show up once a week and forget it'. The confession, the rituals, all designed to remove any personal responsibility for absolution.

So what criteria do the Catholics meet that make you think it's a cult on par with the JW's? Most cults don't appreciate their members being wishy-washy on the cult.

[SuburbanFarmer]

If what you are saying were true, my Catholic family would not have spoken to me in the last 15 years, yet, we talk quite a bit - they even stayed at my non-religious house over Thanksgiving last year.

read my post again.

Catholics tend to go with 'show up once a week and forget it'. The confession, the rituals, all designed to remove any personal responsibility for absolution.

So what criteria do the Catholics meet that make you think it's a cult on par with the JW's? Most cults don't appreciate their members being wishy-washy on the cult.

You've got around 1,000+ years of their history, to reconsider your question.

Any organized religion is a cult. Always.

[K@th]

You've got around 1,000+ years of their history, to reconsider your question.

Any organized religion is a cult. Always.

And yet, here I am, having left the CC and all it's practices, and I'm not being shunned by my family. How is that allowed in a cult?

Hint - that's why the CC is not a cult. You are allowed to leave and retain a relationship with other, still practicing Catholics. Did you watch the video I posted? Nothing like that for ex-Catholics.

[SuburbanFarmer]

You've got around 1,000+ years of their history, to reconsider your question.

Any organized religion is a cult. Always.

And yet, here I am, having left the CC and all it's practices, and I'm not being shunned by my family. How is that allowed in a cult?

Hint - that's why the CC is not a cult. You are allowed to leave and retain a relationship with other, still practicing Catholics. Did you watch the video I posted? Nothing like that for ex-Catholics.

Not in the past few decades, in the west, no. But they are still a group that practices blood rituals, incantations, and claims to speak on behalf of God. If that’s not a cult, then I don’t know what is.