For a Sophist, the point of life is to win. Rhetorical language is used to their full advantage to cover up some self serving pursuit. In other words you could even say a Sophist is very manipulative and can easily morph the truth of something to please someone's needs. To be a Sophist, I think, would take a very intellectual person. A person who can speak clearly and sweet talk their target. I also think they would need to be very intelligent, having some mastery of human actions and nature. They spread the word of their belief that the gods were functioning as an invisible police force. and shared their other cynical views of religion.
Do you agree that cult leaders share some of the same qualities as Sophists? Or do they fall under completely different categories?
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