![]() ![]() Or the strange attire associated with my church (if you haven't guessed, I used to be a mormon), but we've all seen the fancy robes and sashes and hats that are worn in catholic and protestant chapels. I've heard people cite the all the weird practices and rituals and ceremonies I grew up with, and while I now agree it's all weird, every other "accepted" religion I've observed has plenty of their own rituals that are very bizarre when viewed by an outsider. But I can't help but feel like everybody who ever told me I was in a cult and going to hell, every person I know who makes all their choices based on what their church tells them to do, pays a tithe, goes to confession, baptizes babies, fears god, denies evolution, etc. Eventually I did leave my church, and religion all together, as I gradually came to the realization that I just didn't believe. Growing up I was taught that not only was it a religion but that it was a Christian religion, only to be told later by other Christians that I was in a cult. Admittedly, I've never bothered to look up the definition, but I was raised in one of them. I've never totally understood the difference between a cult and a religion.
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