Reply #47: As a liberal Christian, I would agree that some of the fundie churches

[Lydia Leftcoast]

are cults, especially the politicized ones, which create total environments for their members, so that their entire social life and all their sources of information are based in the church. Fundies have their own schools, their own social groups for every age, their own TV shows and straight-to-video movies, their own radio stations, their own music, and even their own news magazines. They are taught that everything not approved by their church is evil. It's a total information environment.

In mainstream churches, you're free to come and go as you please, and you're free to use any source of information you please. They let you have a life outside church.