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Cults tend to have devotion without critical thinking, debate. Cults are the religious/spiritual version of political dictatorship. Questioning God, the messiah, e.g. Christ, God's gender or sex, and all part of the game of a healthy religion. A religion rejecting questions, is a cult even if it has 10 billion members. Any open religion asks questions and seeks answers regarding homosexuality, any sexuality, any marriage.
I have had graduate professors who kept telling us and me...."keep your mouth shut....do not question." They are right, the student is wrong. And this was not even a church or clergy.
Michael M. Kazanjian
On Thursday, May 5, 2022, 10:03:50 AM CDT, Aydan Connor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
CAUTION:This email originated from outside of JMU. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.I was thinking about how reverence could be seen as the proper frame for the religion that is not a religion, as opposed to devotion in traditional style society. It seems intuitive to me that devotion is when we cross a line towards traditional religion as opposed to a meta modern religion that is not a religion. The relationship is different, but the quality remains. I think cults tend to contain devotion without a heart of reverence, and that this points towards some lack of ontological quality there that makes this form inherently dangerous.
Thoughts?
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