RE: What makes a religion?
June 15, 2016 at 11:41 am
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2016 at 11:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Time has also been a role in determining what is a religion and what is not, particularly as it relates to cults. Christianity was once a cult, and many sects are still considered to be cults - even by other christians..but they largely skate by on the anonymity and protection offered by the trend towards greater utility-of-faith. Intentional (and successful) social engineering on a grand scale, in living memory, set in motion a few decades back when american christians with political aspirations put down their axes and torches and realized that alone, self segregated from each other, they were swiftly becoming an irrelevance.
(not criticizing that, mind you..I'm pretty sure it was fucking brilliant, lol)
(not criticizing that, mind you..I'm pretty sure it was fucking brilliant, lol)
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