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 | | In common usage, "cult" has a negative connotation, and is generally applied to a group by its opponents, for a variety of reasons. |
 | | In English, it remains neutral and a technical term within this context to refer to the "cult of Artemis at Ephesus" and the "cult figures" that accompanied it, or to "the importance of the Ave Maria in the cult of the Virgin." This usage is more fully explored in the entry Cult (religious practice). |
 | | A website affiliated with Adi Da Samraj [10] sees the activities of cult opponents as the exercise of prejudice and discrimination against them, and regards the use of the words "cult" and "cult leader" as similar to the manner in which "nigger" and "commie" were used in the past to denigrate fls and Communists. |
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