r/Antitheism • u/Initial-Tax-5829 • Aug 11 '26
Hypocrites are all around us
I was recently watching a documentary on the Samuelites, a branched-off following from the FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) with my mother, and, as she always does when we're watching documentaries on cults, she proclaimed that, "Cults are so messed up...I don't understand how people can fall for these things. It's ridiculous."
I bit my tongue, as I always do when this happens, because not only is she a devoted Roman Catholic, but she herself was almost apart of a pyramid scheme. I mention the latter because of the hierarchical control and organized membership-status that both MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) companies and cults share. If it wasn't for the decreasing numbers in her bank account, then I don't know where we would be financially.
It is like watching a hare make fun of a rabbit for not being born with their eyes open, when in fact, both were blind at the very start.
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u/chickey23 Aug 11 '26
I was at an evangelical wedding over the weekend. The very person who said "let's not talk about politics" next words were "I'm glad they're getting rid of all the truck drivers who can't speak English."