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Not a cult.....nope.
I am reflexively really resistant to calling Christianity a cult because it doesn’t really meet all of the criteria we usually use to define a cult - particularly a singular charismatic leader.
But then…even that criteria arose in a culture dominated - hell totally saturated in Christianity, so I’m questioning those reflexive reactions lately.
I think Evangelical Christianity, which is now functionally interchangeable with Christian Nationalism, is, if not a doomsday cult, then certainly has all of the bad things you tend to think about when you think about doomsday cults but with orders of magnitude more actual political, social, and material power.
So in some ways, calling it a cult is really underselling how dangerous it is.
I'm honestly not referring to Christianity as a whole. I'm referring to Trumpists. They don't worship God, they worship Trump. He's there false idol and their too deluded to even recognise it.
How is there no single charismatic leader? The whole article is about their single charismatic leader. Minus the charisma due to dementia.