All cults are religions, not all religions are cults. And essentially non-conformance to popular belief is what slides certain religions into the cult category.
If the membership of said cult increased in popularity enough to become the majority of a population, then it would magically leaves the cult category and become a mainstream religion. Like what happened to Christianity as it spread in the early days. And what appears to be happening to Mormonism now. And could see it happening to Scientology in the future. Though it would have to have a "poor man's" edition available. It seems to be a rather expensive religion to get into, though I haven't actually price checked.
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