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minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·14 天前I mean, Scientology is doing pretty well since the death of L Ron Hubbard.
minus-squareCatoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·14 天前And Mormonism, The Children of God/The Family, Aleph/Aum Shinrikyo, etc.
minus-squarewaddle_dee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·14 天前These are just taking in the cults that have succeeded. It’s survivorship bias. There’s countless more cults that have died out, or faded away time, and time again.
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·14 天前Hell, Christianity pretty much started as a Roman era cult around Jesus.
I mean, Scientology is doing pretty well since the death of L Ron Hubbard.
And Mormonism, The Children of God/The Family, Aleph/Aum Shinrikyo, etc.
These are just taking in the cults that have succeeded. It’s survivorship bias. There’s countless more cults that have died out, or faded away time, and time again.
Hell, Christianity pretty much started as a Roman era cult around Jesus.