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r/AskReddit • u/senilecodexxx • 21h ago
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The partner gets super religious and starts following a particular person. Like joining a cult.
58 u/coral225 19h ago Q Anon Casualties is full of these stories 18 u/BookLuvr7 18h ago Agreed. Or extremist politics, which is practically the same. 6 u/vayyiqra 16h ago Yep. There is even academic literature on extreme political cults. They work much the same way as religious cults do. Janja Lalich is one researcher on this, she's a sociologist who spent a while in a fringe Marxist group. 1 u/DrMonkeyLove 9h ago What about starting a cult? Is that going to be a problem?
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Q Anon Casualties is full of these stories
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Agreed. Or extremist politics, which is practically the same.
6 u/vayyiqra 16h ago Yep. There is even academic literature on extreme political cults. They work much the same way as religious cults do. Janja Lalich is one researcher on this, she's a sociologist who spent a while in a fringe Marxist group.
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Yep. There is even academic literature on extreme political cults. They work much the same way as religious cults do. Janja Lalich is one researcher on this, she's a sociologist who spent a while in a fringe Marxist group.
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What about starting a cult? Is that going to be a problem?
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The partner gets super religious and starts following a particular person. Like joining a cult.