Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Purported Cults

I have read with interest the discussion in this page as well as the NPOV pages. I tend to agree with Uncle Ed that NPOV in this context is highly difficult and unless careful, Wikipedia gets hijacked by people to promote their own agenda of hate and fear. In my view, Wikipedia needs to remain neutral. Moral debates have no place in an encyclopaedia. The negative connotations of "cult" are self-evident. If you are accused to belong to a cult, your job, your business, your social life may be damaged as a result. What is the difference between shouting pejoratively "Jew!" or "Nigger!" or shouting "you are in cult!". No difference whatsoever... bigotry is bigotry is bigotry no matter how you dress it. Sorry...

With the negative associations to the world "cult, who owns the moral high ground to decide what is a cult and what is not? None of us here. That is for sure.

So, my view is that this page should be deleted. --jossi 15:31, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I agree that "cult" now has an extremely negative connotation, but it was once a more flatly descriptive term. Perhaps this page could be moved somewhere where it would attract less counter-cultists. I think the content of the page is valuable and has often been admirably NPOV in spite of it's subject. CHL 15:45, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)