Responding to Andrew Sullivan’s Continuing “Cult” Campaign
Mormon American’s D.T. and Ryan Bell challenge Andrew Sullivan’s claim that Mormonism has “cultish qualities.” “It’s easy to draw up any ‘criteria’ to make a religion look cultish,” write Bell and Bell. “When calling Mormonism a cult, is Sullivan really just saying that it operates like hundreds of other religions, which do not typically privilege transparency and democracy over divine authority?”