Dear Ready,
If you are really being truthful, why would you care so much about the meaning of the word cult or religion? Why would I need to understand anything? In the event that I’m wrong, I would just be uncovering the truth. Why do you write ‘that my conception of the truth is off’?
You make it seen like you have cult-like beliefs. That your views become more true when more people agree with you. It does not work that way. Truth is toe only thing that makes itself be. You can’t have artificial truths. While we can really believe in artificial beliefs.
The Torah is not even based on certain beliefs.It can all be learned from within itself. There is nothing in Judaism that requires us to advance a certain belief, against better evidence. [Though of course in actuality we are constantly being called upon to stand up for the truth of Torah over temporal thought.]