i read that america is not susceptible to cults for cultural or social reasons, but rather because of the tax breaks all religious organizations enjoy on us soil.
>>18548272that doesn't give cults an advantage over more established religions, though? Just puts them on equal footing, so you still need cultural/social reasons for people to pick the cult.
>>18548278well, surely it gives them more tools to grow big and more organized and have resources to defends themselves with, like lawyers.
>>18548283Money matters, but really, this kind of retardation is cultural. It’s not inherently a Protestant disease, but my fuck did the removal of any requirement for education and training within the clergy, or even the requirement for clergy at all lead to some real basket cases. Add in isolation, self sorting of populations, and the most moronic elements of the American entrepreneurial ethos and you start to see the source of the problem. Google the Christian scientists, the millerites (7th day Adventists) or prosperity gospel. Hell, a bunch of these critters think earth is 6k years old.
>>18548278>cultural/socialPeople only want magical intervention to solve troubles they can't understand.That bleach drinking cult started in the US, there's a nun actively advocating off branching the cult internationally through the same religious tax cuts in order to grow the bleach distributing organization. The asshole heading the operation in Spain simply says they're opportunities and that he's excused because politicians do the same.It's business, faith is just the product.
