The JW’s are definitely a cult. Do some youtubing about people who left the religion for some interesting revelations about what life is like in JW if you’re a free thinker. They’re right up there with Scientology.
There are differences between cults and religions but they often amount to the cults just being more extreme in terms or resisting apostasy and then shunning actual apostates, mind control vs indoctrination, etc.
