• Church youth leader sentenced to 13 years in prison for sexual abuse of young girls
(archived link)
• Catholic nun among 25 arrested in mob bust in northern Italy
(archived link)
• Member of secretive Christian sect sentenced to 120 years in prison; part of widespread child sexual abuse and subsequent coverup
(archived link)
• Oklahoma deputies arrest former pastor accused of lewd or indecent acts to a child
(archived link)
• Oklahoma pastor sentenced to 25 years in prison for lewd acts, rape of underage girls (not the same Oklahoma pastor as previous headline)
(archived link)
• Retired New Orleans priest pleads guilty to kidnapping and raping boy in 1970s
• Texas pastor accused of secretly recording visitors, downloading child porn
(archived link)
What about Trumpism? That’s a religion, and it doesn’t deal in any of those three questions.
That’s really more a cult than a religion. As much as “hahah all religions are cults LoL”, there is a distinct difference between them.
Drag isn’t a sociologist, but drag is pretty sure the set of cults is contained within the set of religions.
Right. All cults are, ostensibly, religions. That doesn’t mean that it works in the other way. Not all religions are cults.
Right, so if Trumpism is a cult, it must be a religion. And it’s a religion that isn’t concerned with the creation of the universe, the afterlife, or how to live well. So your definition of religion based on it answering unknowns can’t be right.
There’s a reason I said “ostensibly”. Cults co-opt the religious umbrella in order to manipulate. They rely on the same kinds of psychology that religions do, often touch on the same kinds of topics. Trumpism is more a cult of personality than a proper religious cult.
Either way, to equate any kind of spiritually and religion with one of the most obvious examples of someone heading a cult is at BEST disingenuous. I’m not here to talk about cults. Cults suck, they’re the opposite of what I described earlier. Intensely external, entirely about control.
Trumpism definitely has the worship and belief in the supernatural, insofar as most religions do. Drag thinks it’s a religion.
That’s fine. Drag can believe it to be a religion. Still not one relevant at all to the views I stated above.
Okay well since we couldn’t agree on a definition that encompasses all religions, drag is going to continue believing there’s no such thing as religion.