our ideas about religions tend to focus on their most interesting nominal beliefs while ignoring how nobody doing them cares what the dipshit theorycrafters have to say and they're all completely overdetermined by largely invariant basic ass social existence facilitation rules
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yet one i have never heard contradicted by anyone who has left non-Reform Judaism
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Well I'm sold, where's the good cults then?
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starting mine is still on hold pending correction of my problem with instrumentalizing people so there are no good ones yet
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Sure, but a cult is basically a religion of fewer members but a necessarily higher investment in the belief system. Holy orders, with their specific idiosyncrasies, could be said to be cults embedded into a larger religious superstructure.
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thanks! i worked very hard on it
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Not that there's anything wrong with that!
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I thought the mainstream understanding of the term was "a legitimate religion not subject to tax law."
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