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All the cult leaders who claim to be God/Jesus never have any powers. If I join your cult, and you claim to be Jesus, you'd be better be ready to do some magic. (lemmy.world)
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Anyone see the HBO documentary "Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God"?

All the woman did was drink and turn blue and couldn't even heal herself.

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[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And you can equate religions and cults because the only difference between the two is time.

There is more difference than time. Cults require a charismatic, authoritarian leader, religions do not. One can be religious and autonomous in practice.

Religions can be open source and decentralised, cults cannot.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

When discussing American furniture, I like to refer to the Shakers as a "sect" and not a "cult" because as far as I can tell they didn't commit any atrocities.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At least both Christianity and Islamic religions started as cults and became religions. Christianity was even a sect of people believing in the coming of the end times, that's what the revelation in the new testament is for.

A sect or a cult is always the root of any new religion and often new sects or cults are the offspring of an older religion. Religion, cults and sects are as concepts interconnected.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Religion, cults and sects are as concepts interconnected.

Oh, for sure. These ideas are related, but to claim that they are only separable by time is disingenuous.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh no, I never said that they are only separable by time but that one is the predecessor or root of the other and that religions can spawn new cults of their own.

It can't only be time that transforms the one into the other, because otherwise we would have 100th of religions right now from all the sects and cults that have existed in the past.

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~Oh no, I never said that they are only separable by time.~~

~~You may not have said it, but you typed it. Lets look at the replay.~~

~~And you can equate religions and cults because the only difference between the two is time.~~

It can’t only be time that transforms the one into the other

I agree with you here.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh I see where this misunderstanding comes from. I am not IninewCrow, I just thing the general concept of this idea is interesting and gave it my own spin.

So he/she said the thing with the time, I said everything in the posts below it :D