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I meant it opposite of your interpretation. "Why do you think it excludes big religions from the cult definition?" I completely agree with you, just wanted to make a small joke about big religions also just being some cults that survived a bit longer.
Because cult means "small religion", or at least it meant that before the 1970s, and I refuse to let monotheists decide the definitions of words.
Understandable. I checked the Wikipedia definition, because I didn't know a proper definition for cult.
So it isn't exactly wrong to call all religions cults, according to the old meaning, even before it meant small religions. But out was more aligned to certain places, like the cult of Apollo in Delphi with its oracle.
I've got a better definition for you, from line 1:
What is common is not unusual.