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“I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it.”
Cults are built on the power of belief and the more people who believe in a movement the more powerful it becomes.
If ten thousand cult worshipers claimed their leader walked on water, how would you go about convincing them otherwise, even if you had proof.
Look at Islam or Christianity or Judaism, they influence the world but they're all only built on the power of belief.
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.
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.
Oh, for sure. These ideas are related, but to claim that they are only separable by time is disingenuous.
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.
~~You may not have said it, but you typed it. Lets look at the replay.~~
I agree with you here.
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