On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:28:59 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

Please define "cult" for me.

Hare Krishna?

Or followers of the Comet Hale–Bopp?

"...in March 1997, the cult Heaven's Gate committed mass suicide with
the intention of teleporting to a spaceship they believed was
following the comet..."

I saw the comet as my wife drove across the Sierra Mountains west of
Reno, but never converted.