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Some thoughts on cults
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Evangelical chatters in CF are not a subset of scholarly theologians
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It was true the first time I wrote about it. I know you have your own preferred use of the word, but that doesn't change a thing--nor does mischaracterizing the intentions of the researchers--nor it is at all unusual for a single word or term to be used in several different ways, according to the situation or who's speaking. To pretend that one of the more prominent uses doesn't exist, or something to that effect, however, is simply not worth debating further IMO.
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smaneck
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i'm still waiting for you to come up with names of scholars respected in academia who use the term the way you do. My guess is that they have the same amount of respectability as those 'researchers' who try and prove that you can't be a Freemasons and a Christian. In fact, in many cases they are the same people.
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