Showing posts with label culture of life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture of life. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The Cult Vs. the Culture of Life

Cult - a closed group or religious sect devoted excessively to one idea or person; an unothodox or false religion

Culture - growing, cultivated organisms or social community; refinement

A cult is narrowing and hierarchical. A culture is expanding and communal.

Cults point the finger outward and find everyone else evil and advise either isolation or evangelism to cleanse it. Cultures hand everyone some seeds and a hoe and sends them out to the garden together.

Cults are ultimately about death. Cultures are about life.

Evangelical Christianity is a cult. Liberalism is a culture.

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