Steven Walling wrote:
"Wikipedia makes the Vatican look like a coffee
clatch"
They're saying we're so cliquish that we make the Vatican look like a casual
coffee work party, not that we are one. Still a mixed metaphor though,
considering the Catholic Church hardly meets the definition of a cult.
That depends on what definition of "cult" you are using. It can apply
broadly (per OED) to "a system of religious veneration or devotion
directed towards a particular figure or object."
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