The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.
When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.
When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.
I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.
I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.
