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Gonna blow their minds (and hopefully blow some other stuff too) (midwest.social)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] RoidingOldMan 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The line of cult vs. religion has many criteria, but a big one is if it survives a generation or two after the death of the charismatic prophet. Usually it's not considered both a religion AND a cult, it kinda graduates from cult to religion by lasting a long enough time.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I wonder if it having continuous prophets changes that are all

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