Title: Religious Intolerance Poorly Disguised as Scholarly Analysis
Product review: The author liberally applies the denigrating term "Cult" to any belief systems not in alignment with conservative Christian dogma. Martin attempts to stigmatize as anti-Christian and anti-spiritual such world religions as Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Baha'i Faith, and many well-established Christian denominations.Academic and intellectual integrity are sorely lacking in this pseudo-scholarly approach to populist theology. No defined basis for categorizing a belief system as a cult is given, writings of faiths are audaciously taken out of context to help make a point, few specific references are given beyond "high level official" and the like.This is a volume that does nothing to foster an understanding of various belief systems while attempting to poison the reader’s perspective of all but the most conservative of Christian viewpoints.
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