A cult happens when there's one guy at the top who knows it's all bullshit. Religion happens when that guy is dead.
damn that's a good one, hadn't heard that before. I'm totally stealing that.
I can get behind this!
Are we starting a cult?
If I were both smart and had no morals, then fuck yeah I would. I'd do it to milk as many people for money as possible. But I have integrity, empathy, and compassion so there's no way I would ever do it.
That's 100% my problem. Damn conscience.
The difference is in one of them, the founder is dead.
The really funny thing is how cults grow into big religions and then big religions subdivide into these denominations that fight forever about who is the “correct” one.
Literally Sunni / Shia started as: after Mohammed died, should Muslims follow his son or his chief cleric.
Our religion is the true path to salvation! Please ignore all those other ones.
I was reading about Dionysus the other day and his cult sounded pretty fucking dope. We should bring that shit back. Bacchanals all up in this.
Please elaborate
That's a recursive definition. I wonder if that was intentional.
I mean, that's the classical definition of a cult. But a modern definition of a cult is a group of people living under an authoritarian religious leader.
I'm not a big fan of using the word cult anymore because it's definition is so dilutes. I like the term High Control Group. It's a lot more transparent as to what it is. Fits basically everything classically considered a cult, and leaves out the more benign religions that aren't hurting anyone
"Benign religions that aren't hurting anyone"
Ain't. No. Such. Thing.
Religions cannot exist without an outgroup to reject together.
Just like you can't become a Dolphins fan without hating the Jets (or Spurs/Arsenal or whatever rivals you have locally).
Good to know the edgy antithiests from 2016 Reddit are still around
For example, I'm a part of CTDC.
And that is?
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