Comment on Anon looks into cults

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And Christianity.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Christianity as a religion generally started after the death and ascension of Christ.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So you’re saying it reached escape velocity and survived the death of its leader?

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      • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I agree with the other person that the JC fan club-cum-cult only became a real cult heading to religion after it had the sacrificial death to lean on.

        The escape velocity was achieved not from the leader dying, as the martyrdom was the key factor long-term, but more so that it survived the core group of founders by being pliable. It wasn’t the “message” per se, but the decentralized and un-professionalizing of the religion that made it so that anyone could practice it, and for less hassle and cost than existing religions. It reached escape velocity because the barrier to entry for outsiders to practice and become leaders was lower.

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      • mobotsar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The only difference between a “religion” and any other cult is its popularity.

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      • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s why people that study cults prefer to call them ‘new religious movements’

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Atheists are quite culty… So are leftists

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    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Still a cult (or several) or why shouldn’t it be? I don’t know the exact definitions.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Cults generally are very centrally controlled and also demand people shun outsiders and/or apoststes

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