Noun
a system of religious beliefs and rituals
Source: WordNetI wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. Rita Rudner
I wanted to see the fucking score! What do you got to do that's so fucking important? You can't join the religious cult with me! Adam Sandler
When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life. Zadie Smith
Hamas and Hezbollah operate within geopolitical norms. They can be negotiated and reasoned with. ISIL is a different animal altogether - a religious cult an order of magnitude more extreme than even the most extreme Islamic groups of the past. Malcolm Nance
The global jihad movement ideology is a destructive religious cult. It is so un-Islamic that it is virtually anti-Islamic. Malcolm Nance
Referring to ISIL as a destructive religious cult rather than a legitimate theo-political 'radical Islamic' group is not just more accurate, it also exposes ISIL's corrupt religious narrative. Malcolm Nance