Regarding “by a religious cult”: I think it’s because Ortus posts about the bible here and there online and in source code.
We shouldn’t forget that Luis Mayano, the initiator of all the box ecosystem (and Ortus) has roots in Latin America and I think he is a very religious person (like many of latin american friends I have) what I respect. He does a lot for his home country and the rest of latin & south america. He has a very filantropic approach. I never talked to him or know him personally at all: But, what he & his team at Ortus have done for the whole cfml community in development, sponsorships, casts, forgebox, meetUps, CommandBox etc, etc … modernizing cfml and contributing to Lucee Source Code: I’m very thankfull he and all the Ortus guys are around. I’d say they are one of the reasons cfml is still around. As an atheist I read here and there the Bible citings and I just feel very thankfull he and the Ortus team is around. However, I never felt anybody of Ortus was trying to convert me or push me to any other cult then cfml 