To me when I hear it it's usually a step before it becomes a accepted religion or a religion that is never is accepted and deemed strange for it's ways. Atleast thats how I always hear it used.
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." E.Abbey
I often hear it with the meaning of a spiritual group that is malicious
or a spiritual group in which its leaders are malicious (or crazy). Anyway see:
Cult, sect, church, religion are all the same thing. Still they are used differently: cult is often used in the sense of "destructive cult", a term implying that they brainwash you and that they are after your money and/or workforce.
True that all religions are on that... but it usually means more than the average church.
Some cults that are legal in the USA are ilegal in most parts of Europe, because they are considered destructive cults (for instance Scientology).
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It's curious how the terms change with language: in Spanish the term used is usually "secta" (sect), while "culto" (cult) is rarely used at all, except by the Roma to refer to their evangelical communities.
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