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.
“I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”
- George Carlin.
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.
All power in our society is based on belief if you think about it.
My favorite example of this is the idea of money and finance.
There are trillions and trillions of dollars worth of imaginary wealth everywhere. None of it can be backed by actual product or material … it all exists because we all collectively believe that it exists.
It’s our modern day religion and we all believe in it and worship it daily … All Hail Money!
Not really, otherwise we’d have read a sovcit success story by now.
Not nearly enough people believe their bullshit.
Belief is necessary but not sufficient.
Now I’m on board.
As authorized by the House of Apostles of Eris, I’m a card-holding genuine Pope. So are you and so is everyone who reads this message, if they so wish.
There is a fun Netflix documentary where a guy creates his own cult: Kumare.
In the end he feels bad for taking advantage of peoples’ trust particularly when vulnerable and has a semi-sincere apology for including them in his project.
So the first requirement is you need to be a bit of a sociopath or a true believer (aka a bit crazy)
A good deal of the miracles happen conveniently off-screen, and mostly become “true” because the whole group tends to unanimously trust the mythos.
I think that is undercutting the prime requirement to be in a cult… too dumb to question shit like that.
Easy, join the cult of linux and bow to the power of the cult leaders: “doing math very fast”. BEHOLD.
This is why claiming to be a “prophet” (by any of a multitude of definitions) is so popular for cult leaders.
You can say you have information from a deity, one way or another, or even that you get special treatment from a deity. No special powers needed. If people believe in the deity and they believe you were chosen by that deity, to counteract that would mean counteracting the belief in the deity itself.
False prophets will arrive and mislead many
All this hullabaloo about a guy who never existed. Jesus buttfucking Christ.
I think we have archeological evidence for Jesus. Just not for the miracles obviously.
