• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Yup. It sounds a lot like Scientology. Or pretty much every other cult/religion out there. LOL

    If their way of life was so amazing, people would WANT to stay in it. Holding them hostage or else… just seems… less than ideal. 😵

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      1 year ago

      To be fair, some religions are much more aggressive about burning bridges than others. If I piss off my Catholic family, I just get passive aggressive quips from my mother in law at Christmas. I can still see my family, go home to my wife, and still work in the city they reside in.

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      There’s a short list of good cults that don’t do this.

      And here it is:

      The Church of the SubGenius (Praise “Bob” Best one, clearly, but I’m biased as I’m ordained in it)

      Discordianism (Hail Eris, our sister religion)

      The First Church of the Last Laugh (I know I know but you know you never know, our other sister religion, praise St. Stupid)

      Dudeism (practice as little as possible)

      Flying Spaghetti Monsterism (Praise his noodly appendage)

      The Universal Life Church (these guys actually give you the power to legally officiate weddings, unlike the others…for now…)

      That’s about it.

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            1 year ago

            I’m talking about the Satanic temple and not the church of Satan which is the Laveyan thing

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              If not Church of Satan (LaVey) or Temple of Set (Michael Aquino), I may be unaware of the one you’re talking about. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn there are more sects of Satanism than even just these three, he’s a popular character. Since I’m unaware of them I will withhold judgement personally in either direction, I don’t have enough info to say whether or not they’re one of the good ones so I can’t confidently speak on that.

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                  Sure, idk what to tell you my dude, I’m not familiar. I’m more familiar with the one started in the 1970s (LaVayan) that everyone knows and the offshoot from Aquino.