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Tully,
Beating your wife was deemed acceptable,
Banning blacks was deemed acceptable
Sacrificing Christians to lions was deemed entertainment.
And all that simply on a different timeline... Should we accept if it happened again today?
Like Martian, even after this post, I don't quite get what you're trying to say.
If you want info on what constitutes a cult and what a religion, a cult by definition is a new religion movement started usually by a charismatic leader.
So most religions started out as a cult.
The problem with Scientology isn't so much that it's a cult, as that it's a dangerous cult, that actively works against the current society. The whole idea of stealing money not withstanding, they actively try to disrepute people that leave their group, especially when these people try to speak out about what they have seen "inside". And they try to bring more people to them very aggresively as well.
In a way you could probably compare them to a tumor on society.
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