• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Really hard to take a niche religious belief seriously without a large dedicated community of fellow practitioners.

    Like, if you’re not regularly going to a church, there’s no peer network or social reproduction. You might become “spiritual”, but it’s going to be some religion you invented in your own head that’s divorced from any other formal setting. As likely as a non-athletic teenager suddenly becoming a baseball professional.

    Organized religion is as much about the organization as the religion.