Why do the academics refer to pagan worshipers or followers as "cults" when they were the mainstream religious practices at the time?
>>18288099The latin "cultus" wasn't perjorative and boiled down to a set of worship practices (or a group who engaged in such) so it's mostly accurate.
Because they're probably christians, muslim etc, or they dont wanna offend religious people OR they havent thought it through, they just see unpopular religions as "cults".
>>18288115Ok sure but then by the same token you would refer to christians as the cult of God but no one does that its the inconsistency thats weird.
>>18288119Because they're a more current religion, and the cults of the old world are very dead. The 'pagans' of the modern era are very rarely an organised religion or particularly widespread and are rarely referred to as cults - those that are often try to 'reclaim' the term or are actually cults as we understand them in the modern era. They're more often than anything else a reaction to modern religion, antinomian or otherwise.If you're interested in this sort of thing, university style guides are typically restricted to specific departments but I know there are some out there on the internet, and you can track back conventions.
>>18288099Because Academia is run by Kikes and Kristians. They consider ALL non-Abrahamic beliefs superstitious conspiratorial pseudoscientific paganism. Check the links you will not find Judaism, Christianity or Islam listed there. These Abrahamicist are half the planet and they believe their Abrahamic cult is rational, logical, scientific and that non-Abrahamic beliefs are none of that.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theorieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_characterized_as_pseudoscience
>>18288119>christiansHave frequently been referred to as the "cult of christ/christ cult"
>>18288099cultAmerican [kuhlt]/ kĘŚlt /nouna particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers.the physical fitness cult.the object of such devotion.a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.Sociology. a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.the members of such a religion or sect.any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.
>>18288099Many of them did actually function similar to modern cults. Pythagoras for example was banned in Italy and he died after a crowd chased him down and murdered him (he had reached a dead end where a field of beans were blocking his path and he refused to trample them under foot as he believed in reincarnation and recalled having been a bean in a past life).
>>18288099Didn't they call themselves cults?
