In a post on Brandon Flowers, Alyson Camus countered the claim that Mormonism is a cult by noting all religions are cults.
She is, of course, 100% right. The root of the word "cult" is care and it refers to the care of religious mores (the opposite of cult is impiety).
But if her point (and her nailing of Mormon beliefs suggest so) is that cults is ipso facto the belief in superstition I would wonder.
Jung got it right when he figured out this syllogism:
1. All reality is a consensus of the majority.
2. 90% of people believe in God.
3. Therefore god is real.
People hate this because it doesn't answer what people want answering but for this reality it answers it perfectly.
So so much for atheisms.
But when it comes to music, in the States for sure, religion, songs of praise, are central. Modern music comes directly and indirectly from black slaves asking God for their freedom (as a footnote, the whole point of Christianity is shut up and drink your rum, you'll get yours in the next life).
And with the exception of country (it is the difference between the fields and the hills) American music is rooted in religious faith. In blues which became Gospel and which Ray Charles made into rhythm and blues. It is Godsong.
But let's say there is no God. If you read another Alyson post elsewhere in today's rock nyc, you will discover that in a post about Madonna's brother being homeless that in Traverse City it is only the Church and the Government who help the indigent population. I would guess you would not need me to rehash the sins of the Catholic Church, just in modern times its repulsive blaming of homosexual men dying of AIDs the 80s is bad enough. But the Church still helped in the care of AIDs victims, and local Churches can be honorable houses of worship and of charity.
I realize I doubt have a point really, much like Helen I don't care who Brandon prays to as long as he doesn't infringe on my freedom.I wrote in a comment on FB to a friend who said that spiritual ecstasy was a form of Nnarcissism, what does it matter if it gets you off.
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