Religions and Cults in the U.S.

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"The American character is full of curious contradictions at once potentially creative - and destructive. Nowhere is this more apparent than in its religious life. Based upon a Judeo-Christian heritage of European origin, America's religious mainstream is largely Protestant, with the majority denominations of a "presbyterian" organizational character - that is, determinedly anti-hierarchic and democratic. But the same seed from which the flowering of the U. S. Constitution sprang also carries in it a less admirable trait: cultism. American religious cults are the logical extension of anarchic and charismatic tendencies of mainstream Protestantism of the presbyterian character.

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