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cult

A cult is a group that practices coercion and brainwashing on its followers. A cult refers to a religious group that claims to be part of one religion, while rejecting foundations beliefs of that religion. The Nation of Islam is a cult of Islam because it rejects the Koran's teachings but still claims to be Islamic.

cult

followers of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices (= fad, rage) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal he always follows the latest fads it was all the rage that season (= cultus) a system of religious beliefs and rituals devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false it was a satanic cult followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader

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Tom joined a UFO cult.
Tatoeba is not a cult.
This film is a cult classic.
The townsfolk were convinced that the string of murders was tied to a satanic cult.
What's the difference between a religion and a cult?
Is it true that Tom joined a cult?
The cult of Tom is flourishing on Tatoeba.

Movie subtitles

I mean, your wife is in a cult.
Herr Poelzig is the great modern priest of that ancient cult and tonight, dark of the moon, the rites of Lucifer are celebrated.
Marmorus, you and I and your rotten cult will be no more.
But you've read and experienced enough to know that this unholy cult must be wiped out.
Ever heard of a cult of stranglers?
There are so many cults. Why not a cult of stranglers?
But his disciples live on to spread the cult and corrupt the world.
The vampire, by its kiss, taking the blood from its victim makes it another vampire. So, the cult grows.
Look, brother, i don't know much about this cult of yours- what's permitted, what isn't permitted- but i seriously doubt if you have the authority to imprison a man against his will.
Now I'm trapped in a primitive cult.
Then he tries to persuade others to join his new cult.
The Cult of Skaro. I thought you were just a legend.
Thousands had been enslaved by the obscene cult of vampirism.
And the fountainhead of this obscene cult was Dracula himself.
The cult of personality.
She suggested the introduction of her cult, in Rome, for your happiness.
Your husband is your god. and you are priestess of his cult.
There was particular religious cult that kept evading me, Mrs Spalding.
The cult of the individual.
And she arranged to make herself the focus of an intense personality cult.
There is an Edward Malik cult.
If the Malik cult survives this congress, you will not.
We can destroy the Edward Malik cult.
There's two explanations that strike me, either the body was stolen by the members of a death cult that use human bones in their ceremonies, or else.
The one cult member we persuaded to speak up. a farmer named Rand Hobart. was arrested several weeks ago as an alleged murderer.
In this part of Provence, the cult of Diana went on for a long time in its primitive form.
Barcuna leads a deadly cult dedicated to the killer instinct of the jaguar.
This killer cult was once destroyed 3 centuries ago.
Barcuna marches through the jungle attacking and burning every village, and with each attack his power grows with new recruits for his cult.
He's the leader of an ancient killer cult that sprung up again recently.
Killer cult around here?
Don't make a cult from eating!
There's a Satanist cult in this village and last night they held a sabbat.
Miss Hawthorne, who is the leader of this cult?

News and current affairs

Football magnifies the cult of the individual and the glorification of the hero, but it is also a celebration of the cooperative team spirit.
In effect, such feelings of national betrayal served to transform China's cult of national shame from a useful tool of government propaganda into a two-edged sword wielded against the government itself.
Myths about his wartime heroism and divine status soon followed, and a cult of personality was established.
But the power of the Kim cult, as well as the paranoia that pervades the North Korean regime, has a political history that goes back much further than 1945.
Indeed, paranoia about US imperialism is part of the cult of independence.
Think, for example of Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, or the Aum Shinrykio cult that released poison gas in the Tokyo subway system the same year.
Indeed, he developed a cult for Marshall Ion Antonescu, Romania's dictator between 1940-1944 and Hitler's ally, who was responsible of ordering the massacre of about 200,000 Jews.
To be sure, Khrushchev's uncovering of Stalin's crimes and cult of personality in 1956 made a huge impression both in the Soviet Union and abroad.
It is about official arrogance and indifference to suffering, and a cult of secrecy that allows information to be shared only among a narrow elite obsessed with stability.
The cult of the Prize began even before the first winners were announced.
Similarly, the Aum Shinrykio cult that spread the poison gas sarin in Tokyo's subway in 1995 had no connection to Islam.
The survivors of all the previous political movements, now enthralled by Mao's personality cult, were free of all constraint, able to kill and seek revenge with impunity.
Obedience makes the inaccessibility of power and the elite's cult of secrecy possible.
Decentralized organizations with relevant ideologies, operating in contexts full of conditions conducive to armed action, usually survive leadership losses, whereas hierarchical, cult-like organizations often do not.
No one should presume that European Muslims must apologize or explain the actions of a terrorist organization with a cult-like religious ideology, just as no one expected Norwegians to apologize for Breivik.
Atop North Korea's starvation economy sits a personality cult that dwarfs those of Stalin or Mao.
These rants display a second major feature of the Chinese cult of guochi : the tendency to blame a weak, feckless Chinese government for not standing up to predatory foreigners.
Ahmadinejad's election in 2005 was a throwback to the populism of Khomeini's Islamic Revolution and his cult of revolutionary martyrs.
Indeed, one can relate popular hostility toward nuclear energy to Germany's traditional romantic cult of nature, not to science.
In the US, the ideological aftershock is closer to Germany's than to France's: the US may not be overly prone to romanticism, but a cult of nature remains part of the American psyche.
Surkov is the man most responsible for nurturing pro-Putin sentiment, which increasingly resembles a Stalin-like cult of personality.
It is precisely because this mass cult-turned-protest-movement has a traditional resonance that it poses such a threat to the Party establishment.

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