Comment on Apu sitting in the corner out of picture
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 days agoLike I said in the other comment since one comment just wouldn’t do. I see it differently. I know how a cult works. I know how a religion works. Its all pretty much the same.
I know how the world works and I know how things get retold to flatter someone especially posthumously.
I see nothing in that Wikipedia article to suggest anything other than revisionist history. Nothing.
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Oh my bad, I wasn’t aware you knew everything about the entire world. You do know that revising history is a legitimate, academic practice and should be done when new information becomes available, right? If we only ever took the first accounting of an event and never went back to scrutinize it, then we would still all believe the US Civil War was fought by the South just wanting to defend themselves from the greedy North, or that that the USSR were the sole instigators/escalators of the Cold War, or that Napoleon was abnormally short. None of these statements are true, and it was only by going back and correcting our previous assumptions that we came to those conclusions.
Oh also, yeah there are a lot of similarities between cults and religions (and militaries for that matter, but let’s not make this even more messy) and I’m not really trying to defend either of them, but at least when I was being dragged to church as a kid, I wasn’t also forced to never speak to a non-believer again, or only eat bread and water for a week because I couldn’t list the 10 Commandments upon request, or something like that. Every Sunday morning sucked but you know what happened Sunday afternoon? I got to go home and live a normal life again without someone constantly checking on me to make sure I wasn’t
breaking the rulesin need of correction. You don’t get that freedom in most cults, especially not Scientology; I got to leave my situation without having to live in fear for the rest of my life, most of them don’t get that luxury