I know a lot of Vajrayana practitioners with this symptom. The culture of collectively coerced humility is highly infectious 🙃
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Huh. You hit a nerve. Big reason why I have a problem with Vajrayana & Mahayana in particular.
"Collectively coerced humility" is a cultural feature in Norway (see: Janteloven). It's highly corrosive in many ways, and I never had a churchy reason to aggrandize it.
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It's one thing if it's someone's personal affectation, mind, but many practitioners hold it more as universal law.
This prompts abusive behaviour.
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It seems to be a prerequisite for abusive behaviour in cultish situations - but the catalysts for that kind of bad behaviour are multiple. “Collective coercion” is a problem. Healthy humility would not allow abuse because it doesn’t lack strength and confidence.
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I doubt those things are Actually Good.
Spiritual types are just receptive to it. Religious expression is typically done while vulnerable, so this allows predators a niche.
It's the same with child abuse in churches, abuse perpetrated by leaders of social movements...
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I think people go too hard in against religious movements because they are a necessary condition for cults.
A necessary condition, but not always the same thing.
That said, many of those religious sensibilities have developed to give people who hurt others too much power.
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I suspect there’s a correlation between non-religious cult success and religion declining. Political and organizational cults that ostensibly have nothing to do with religion seem to be on the rise.
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"Ostensibly" is a good choice. It's like they didn't catch on to the fact that religiosity is not necessarily tied to theism of any kind.