I like this thread. I had this attitude towards all kinds of religions and cults - I really used to hate them all, but now I think that everything has its place. Just as there are clever things, there have to be stupid things, where is light there must be also darkness, and so on - I think we all can agree that this is universal law of how things work.

Yes there are practices and cults which seem to be suspicious and exploiting their members. But it's each individual's own quest to live their life as they want to. You can't change their opinions no matter how hard and logically you argue with them, in the end it will all boil down to "I want it my way no matter how logically you explain to me that my beliefs are shit".

If somebody is deluded, lured into a cult there is not much you can do for them, but to offer them love and guidance, only when they come back to you for it.

My point is - if something makes someone happy, no matter how silly it sounds, and it doesn't directly affect you or your life, then why not just let them be at it. Hating them just spawns more hate which spawns more hate and so on.

Whatever is going behind the curtains of our universe, I have feeling that it is MUCH more complicated and uncomprehensible in human way of thinking, than all of religious/spiritual dogmas and texts and scientific teachings combined.