According to these definitions, couldn't all religious belief be called occult?
occult
Function: noun
Date: 1923
: matters regarded as involving the action or influence of supernatural or supernormal powers or some secret knowledge of them —used with the
adjective
Etymology: Latin occultus, from past participle of occulere to cover up, from ob- in the way + -culere (akin to celare to conceal) — more at ob-, hell
Date: 1533
1: not revealed : secret
2: not easily apprehended or understood : abstruse, mysterious
3: hidden from view : concealed
4: of or relating to the occult
5: not manifest or detectable by clinical methods alone <occult carcinoma>; also : not present in macroscopic amounts <occult blood in a stool>
— oc·cult·ly adverb
transitive verb
Etymology: Latin occultare, frequentative of occulere
Date: 1500
: to shut off from view or exposure : cover, eclipse
— oc·cult·er noun
Reread this definition, many of you are missing the point. That little word OR explains a lot.
Occult: (cult) matters regarded as involving the Action or Influence of Supernatural or Supernormal powers (the idea of a Supreme God?)
OR some secret knowledge of them
If you don't think your church has some secret agenda, better look more closely.