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Hopefully, the clan will recognize that they are free from the guy and the cult will break up. The brainwashed members will be living in a different world. Maybe they can escape his insanity now that he is headed for that long dirt nap.
 
trainedobserver said:
Hopefully, the clan will recognize that they are free from the guy and the cult will break up. The brainwashed members will be living in a different world. Maybe they can escape his insanity now that he is headed for that long dirt nap.
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Tends to be the case for most cults that once the leader takes that long dirt nap they break up, but not all or Christianity would not exist today either or any of its hundreds of sub cults and denominations.
 
stonehart said:
Tends to be the case for most cults that once the leader takes that long dirt nap they break up, but not all or Christianity would not exist today either or any of its hundreds of sub cults and denominations.
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I believe that to be a misunderstanding of the true origins of what we know as Christianity. I'm convinced it is an invention, a legendary beginning, created well after the supposed time period of the events they describe. If Christianity's origins are fictional then so are the central characters in the story.
 
trainedobserver said:
I believe that to be a misunderstanding of the true origins of what we know as Christianity. I'm convinced it is an invention, a legendary beginning, created well after the supposed time period of the events they describe. If Christianity's origins are fictional then so are the central characters in the story.
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Yeah I have to concede to that as it explains why it has lasted in a sense..
 
It is a well structured tale that is a refinement and consolidation of so many different myths that you need most of The Golden Bough to keep up with the many references. From the Virgin Birth to the risen god, from the hanged god to the reassurected god; it's really about a lot of editing.
 
Burnt State said:
It is a well structured tale that is a refinement and consolidation of so many different myths that you need most of The Golden Bough to keep up with the many references. From the Virgin Birth to the risen god, from the hanged god to the reassurected god; it's really about a lot of editing.
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It's all in there ...

"I know that I hung on the windy tree
For nine whole nights,
Wounded with the spear, dedicated to Odin,
Myself to myself"
Ch. xxxvi - Human Representatives of ATTIS
The Golden Bough, Frazer.
p 412.
 
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