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Lately I’ve been watching a lot of “ex” whatevers. People who left very controlling religions and call out such behaviour. Which has greatly fascinated me. As a Dharmic, forging one’s spiritual path is something of a matter of pride. Something expected even.
Having “apostate” thoughts isn’t a cause for disfellowship or anything like that. It’s almost encouraged. This does not seem to be the case for the “exes” that I’ve been watching.
So I never really understood the Abrahamic paradigm of the apostates or atheists or anything like that. Not really.
I dabbled with this idea in the past and perhaps I’m finally ready to truly entertain it.
But, if we go by the “BITE” model of what a cult is, does all religion necessarily fall under such a model?
If so, why?
Lately I’ve been watching a lot of “ex” whatevers. People who left very controlling religions and call out such behaviour. Which has greatly fascinated me. As a Dharmic, forging one’s spiritual path is something of a matter of pride. Something expected even.
Having “apostate” thoughts isn’t a cause for disfellowship or anything like that. It’s almost encouraged. This does not seem to be the case for the “exes” that I’ve been watching.
So I never really understood the Abrahamic paradigm of the apostates or atheists or anything like that. Not really.
I dabbled with this idea in the past and perhaps I’m finally ready to truly entertain it.
But, if we go by the “BITE” model of what a cult is, does all religion necessarily fall under such a model?
If so, why?