Five cults that have nothing to do with God
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A cult is built on belief. Of giving yourself over to a higher power. What you’re actually believing in, what that higher power actually is? That’s somewhat secondary to the act itself.
This might sound strange, but it’s true. What’s more, it’s something that people who aren’t in cults do all the time. Not to get all Richard Dawkins about it, but look at the heavily religious. Oftentimes, the specifics of what a religion calls you to believe in are secondary to the act of sublimating yourself to the religion you were born into. You can’t expect a die-hard Christian to truly work the fact that their holy book says that wearing mixed fabrics is a sin into their day-to-day life, we’re busy, but that doesn’t make them any less of a believer.
However, cult logic is so insidious that you get people giving themselves to them in their entirety without even the presence of an all-powerful God figure to threaten them with. It’s true, the line between cults and religions can be thin at the worst of times. However, all a cult needs to be a cult is a group of people supporting one charismatic figurehead. Cults can absolutely exist without a supernatural figure at their core, and loads of them do already.
So let’s have a look at five cults that have absolutely nothing to do with God. It’s a void some of them fill with art, with business, with self-improvement, but whatever void they fill it with, the effect on their followers is exactly the same. Honestly, that’s quite a bit scarier to me than the alternative.
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