By: DAVID RICE
To: KEN YOUNG
Re: Murderous Christians

>>>DR> Since the Branch Davidians and Janet Reno were and are
>>>DR> Christians, your special pleading is specious.
>>KY> Interesting statement, considering the fact that Janet
>>KY> Reno has said that Christianity is a cult.
>DR> Christianity is a cult. No one would dispute that.
KY> Most Christians would.

If Christianity is not a cult, what is it? A knitting club?

KY> Not to mention anyone that understand what a cult
KY> really is.

Which it appears you do not. Christianity matches the
definition of the word. Your ruderal cult qualifies.

cult (kult) n. 1.a. A religion or religious sect generally
considered to be extremist or false, with its followers
often living in an unconventional manner under the
guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader. b. The
followers of such a religion or sect. 2. A system or
community of religious worship and ritual. 3. The formal
means of expressing religious reverence; religious
ceremony and ritual. 4. A usually nonscientific method or
regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or
exceptional power in curing a particular disease. 5.a.
Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration
for a person, principle, or thing. b. The object of such
devotion. 6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an
esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
--attributive. Often used to modify another noun: a cult
figure; cult films. [Latin cultus, worship, from past
participle of colere, to cultivate.

kwel-1. Important derivatives are: colony, cult,
cultivate, culture, wheel, cycle, cyclone, bicycle,
collar, pole1, pulley, bucolic.

kwel-1. To revolve, move around, sojourn, dwell. I. Basic
form *kwel-. COLONY, CULT, CULTIVATE, (CULTURE); INCULT,
INQUILINE, SILVICOLOUS, from Latin colere, to till,
cultivate, inhabit. II. Suffixed form *kwel-es-. TELIC,
(TELIUM), TELO-; ENTELECHY, TALISMAN, TELEOLOGY,
(TELEOST), TELEUTOSPORE, from Greek telos, "completion of
a cycle," consummation, perfection, end, result. III.
Suffixed reduplicated form *kw(e)-kwl-o-, circle. 1.
WHEEL, from Old English hwol, hweogol, wheel, from
Germanic *hwewlaz. 2. CYCLE, CYCLO-, CYCLOID, CYCLONE,
CYCLOSIS; (BICYCLE), ENCYCLICAL, EPICYCLE, from Greek
kuklos, circle, wheel. 3. CHAKRA, CHUKKER, from Sanskrit
cakram, circle, wheel. 4. Metathesized form *kwe-lkw-o-.
CHARKHA, from Old Persian *carka-. IV. O-grade form
*kwol-. 1. Suffixed form *kwol-so-, "that on which the
head turns," neck. a. (i) HAWSE, from Old Norse h³ls,
neck, ship's bow; (ii) RINGHALS, from Middle Dutch hals,
neck; (iii) HAUBERK, from Old French hauberc, hauberk,
from Germanic compound *h(w)als-berg-, "neck-protector,"
gorget (*bergan, to protect; see bhergh-1). (i), (ii), and
(iii) all from Germanic *h(w)alsaz;b. COL, COLLAR, COLLET,
CULLET; ACCOLADE, DECOLLATE1, DéCOLLETé, MACHICOLATE,
(MACHICOLATION), TORTICOLLIS, from Latin collum, neck. 2.
Suffixed form *kwol-³. -COLOUS; PRATINCOLE, from Latin
-cola and incola, inhabitant (in-, in; see en). 3.
Suffixed form *kwol-o-. a. ANCILLARY, from Latin anculus,
"he who bustles about," servant (an-, short for ambi-,
around, about; see ambhi); b. POLE1, PULLEY, from Greek
polos, axis of a sphere; c. BUCOLIC, from Greek boukolos,
cowherd, from -kolos, herdsman. 4. Suffixed form *kwol-es-
(probably a blend of o-grade *kwol-o- and expected e-grade
*kwel-es-). CALASH, KOLACKY, from Slavic kolo, koles-,
wheel. 5. Suffixed o-grade form *kwol-eno-. (see wes-3)
Old Iranian *vah³-carana-, "sale-traffic," from *carana-,
trade, traffic. 6. Suffixed zero-grade form *kw§-i-.
PALIMPSEST, PALINDROME, PALINGENESIS, PALINODE, from Greek
palin, again (< "revolving"). [Pokorny 1. køel- 639.]


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