Replies to '09/21 Cult Confrontations'

Quote From: clockers

When you think about it; religion in general is like a cult.  I'm not saying that religion doesn't have good intentions, but when the church is controlled by politics and money it's hard to think otherwise.  Think about the history of the Catholic church(the dark history) when churches were having people killed for not sharing in the same beliefs.  Although things don't seem like that now; the church claims that they have the only true answers.  Religious leaders claim that the only way to God is through them.  The message this says to people is that God will not listen to you, you must come to me to talk to God.  I certainly don't want to pick on one religion because this is true of most religions.  When you build religion off the basis of "We are the only path to God" then it's very cult-like.  Anyone claiming to have the answers and therefore anyone else that challenges them is wrong is how cults start.  Thank God people can  think for themselves and won't be killed for their beliefs in this country, but there are some that live and die by the word of the beliefs(any religion).  People then tend to feel they have the right to judge by the word of their religious beliefs and all are wrong for believing otherwise.  The Path to God is within yourself, Jesus' own words teaching that the kingdom of God is within each and everyone of us, seek and ye shall find.  Jesus himself never actually taught in a church.  So please be careful whenever anyone claims to have the only answers to your own spirtual wellness.