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 == ""Cult apologist"" is always pejorative? == 

 Jossi, it's really not up to anyone else to find an instance of the use of ""cult apologist"" that is non-pejorative.  It is up to you to ""validate"" that it is ""always"" used in a pejorative sense.  I would support something like ""The term is widely seen as pejorative by those to whom it is applied.""   "