Best Friends Animals Society connected to a cult?

[Amstaffer]

I am a big fan of the many podcast found at Howstuffworks.com. I stumbled across this one
http://podcasts.howstuffworks.com/hs...iller-cult.m4v

In this podcast it says that the Best Friends Animal Society (Dogtown) was started by a cult called the Process Church.

Has anyone ever heard of this before? I have given money to this group...did I get taken?

[jess2416]

Friends find their calling

[Amstaffer]

Originally Posted by jess2416

Friends find their calling

Hmmm very interesting. Thanks

[wcladymacbeth]

Nah I don't think you got taken.

[Miakoda]

I think Best Friends is a cult in itself.

[ACooper]

Originally Posted by Miakoda

I think Best Friends is a cult in itself.

I would agree.

The word "cult" doesn't have to mean something "evil" or "bad" though, it's just been used in relation to "devil worship" for so long that we THINK something evil when we hear the word LOL

Main Entry: cult
Pronunciation: \ˈkəlt\
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate — more at wheel
Date: 1617
1 : formal religious veneration : worship
2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
3 : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
4 : a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults>
5 a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad
b : the object of such devotion
c : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

Seems like we chazzers could be a "cult" of dog lovers no? LOL

[xpaeanx]

yes Coop, the "extremist" cult. LOL.

[Dekka]

Can we get tax exempt status? Or is that only religions?

[Amstaffer]

Defined that way there would be a lot of things that could be a cult.

[ACooper]

Originally Posted by Amstaffer

Defined that way there would be a lot of things that could be a cult.

Exactly And that is why the media can slap that word on nearly anyone they want and get away with it

Not defending Best Friends, because I know nothing more than what I've read here, and seen on their Dogtown show. They very well COULD be some crazy "cult" for all I know.