

I always thought of this way:
If a group start worshipping a specific god from the pantheon of an established religion exclusively, they’re a cult (in this case the cult of Yahweh, the old ass storm god), when the cult eventually splinters, they’re sects (Christianity, Islam, Judaism etc.). Don’t think the status of founders has anything to do with it.




I mean Scientology also calls itself a religion. What makes Judaism, Islam and Christianity their own religions? They all worshlp the same old god, and all absorbed local culture wherever these disgusting people spread to build their myths.