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Sunday Firesides: You Should Join a Cult

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Kate McKay
Dec 28, 2024
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Caption: "Several lit oil lamps on a surface with the bold statement 'You Should Join a Cult' overlaid, accompanied by 'Sunday Firesides' logo.

In the present age, the word "cult" is used in a pejorative sense.

But it didn’t always carry this negative baggage.

Cult derives from the Latin cultus, which was originally an agri-cult-ural term referring to the cultivation of the land. The Romans, who participated in both state and private cults, used the word to describe the committed cultivation of t…

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