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Religious 'cults' [Letter]

Title: Religious 'cults' [Letter]
Date: Tuesday, 17 October 1978
Publisher: Globe and Mail (Canada)
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Cabinet members are deliberating on a possible government inquiry into minority religious groups - or cults, as they have been sneeringly designated.

I am a minister in the Church of Scientology. I wish to point out that like my church the Christian church began as a cult and has survived thus far on the basis of its own merits and demerits. I claim the right for my church and others to do the same

Carolyn Lois Wightman
Assistant Professor Department of English
York University
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