Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
by dexwiz on Thursday June 16, 2022 @04:55PM
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Oh yeah the Midwest is full of cults. There are a ton of radical and fundamentalist Christian offshoots. The only difference between many religions and cults is time.
West Coast cults have their own particular flavor though, like the Fellowship of Friends.
Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
by csisnett on Thursday June 16, 2022 @08:06PM
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So if every religion is a cult then why many mainstream denominations are easy to leave?
You're making it harder for people to actually share how to escape an actual cult by calling every religion a cult
Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
by bergenty on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:14AM
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I’m not going to lie, the fellowship of friends sounds awesome. A group of cautiously hedonistic people with real world jobs sounds great.
Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
by Beldin on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:05PM
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> aside from Jehovah's Witnesses, they tend to not be active in proselytizing
From [1]:
Members are expected to participate regularly in evangelizing work ...
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses_practi...
Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
by bseidensticker on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:10PM
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Yeah, that's literally what they said.
Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
by Beldin on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:26AM
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I'm not a native speaker; I thought proselytising = evangelising work.
Did I get that exactly the wrong way around?
A big part of the difference is that- aside from Jehovah's Witnesses, they tend to not be active in proselytizing, and members tend to stay within the groups for longer- their activities rarely make hollywood-style media news because they're not particularly interesting compared to what we more typically think of as cults (i.e. the doomsday cult" in the article).