In the 1960s, I came home from Sunday School troubled. I just couldn’t buy the Adam and Eve story. It wasn’t logical and I could not make that leap. My Dad said, “Religion is a fine thing, taken in moderation,” meaning keep an open mind. Oh, was he right.
Religions taught us to love your neighbor, befriend the newcomer and open your hearts and wallets to help the less fortunate. Those teachings had always been the stairway to heaven. Today, we have cults preaching hate, blame and exclusions. They teach followers to be self-righteous, judgmental and greedy. That is not spiritual, that is not religious, that is a cult.
DNA tests now show that every human on Earth is related to a few thousand people from a small part of Africa who lived 70,000 years ago. That doesn’t mean there is no God or that God wasn’t involved, you just have to keep an open mind.
So, if your church insists that you reject all knowledge that mankind has achieved through the ages and believes Earth to be only 6,000 years old, it is a cult. If your church excludes anyone or has such a narrow interpretation of heaven that only its members can get in, I would call it a cult.
