There are more but yeah, this is a good one.

Missions are another big cult thing. Not too hard to see how a 2 year trip with forced minimal contact for young adults would completely destroy their social ties with people outside their ‘religion.’ And minimizing connection with people outside the religion is a huge cult thing.

Then there’s how much control they have over members lives, such as JW Watchtower society only allowing people to read the news that they produce along with many, many other things.