How Do We Know We’re Not in a Cult?
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For those of you deathly concerned about this question, we just got a letter from “FutureChurch” (a.k.a. Thomas Hohstadt) that may help:
Dear friends,
How do we know we haven’t reduced or simplified faith to the point of distorting it? Let’s face it, most of us actually assume we can fit God into our tiny heads. And when that happens, our church becomes a “ghetto of truth.” It becomes a “cult.”
Here are some warning signs. . . .
Blessings,
FutureChurch
That’s right. Keep God out of those tiny heads, y’all.
Nathan Schneider is an editor of Killing the Buddha and writes about religion, reason, and violence for a variety of publications. He is also a founding editor of Waging Nonviolence. His first two books, published by University of California Press in 2013, are God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet and Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse. Visit his website at The Row Boat.