What would happen if you started your own religious cult...

What would happen if you started your own religious cult, and then suddenly revealed yourself as a fraud once you’ve gathered a large enough following? I want to see how religions develop in real time

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That's essentially what happened with Jesus

>was supposed to be the Jewish messiah and somehow rekt the Roman Empire, freeing Jerusalem
>instead got captured and killed, thus revealed to be a fraud
>followers got cognitive dissonance and claimed "it was all part of the plan", "he returned in secret", "he will come again", etc

“I know nothing about theology but still should have a voice on theology” the post

t. Christian

In all likelihood, this would never happen. People are a lot better at detecting sincerity than they are at detecting things like logical fallacies. The cult leader usually does believe his own tripe, and that's part of what forms the charisma that allows him to form the cult in the first place.

user, I'm not him, but that is literally the mainstream academic consensus on Jesus and early Christianity.

Your followers would probably decide that you were a false prophet and follow someone else, possibly one of your lieutenants.

Look at all the people who follow preachers who predict the end of the world. When the world doesn't end, they just double down on their beliefs. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a thing.

Why Lord Buddha is represented as a nigger? He was an Aryan (of kshatrya caste). As a Buddhist, I'm deeply offended.

The closest you'll get is supposedly Marshall Applewhite did admit to some of his followers he had doubts about the very faith he was teaching in Heaven's Gate but you see how that ended. Another case is Hubbard did supposedly admit to a reporter that Scientology was all a fraud but Scientology is still around.

Racist

Lord Buddha had deep blue eyes and light skin, according to tradition. To draw the Tathagata as a nigger is blasphemy.

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Ignore this shitty post

Read the Lakkhana Sutta in:
Shaw, Sarah. Buddhist Meditation: An Anthology of Texts from the Pali Canon. 2006

Drawing the Shakyamuni Buddha as a nigger is very disrespectful.

Jesus never claimed he would destroy the romans or creat a new kingdom.

The reason he was hated was because he was saying that earth kingdoms are useless and the only real one was the god one in the heavens and that you would have no money there.

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The reason he was hated was because he was saying that earth kingdoms are useless and the only real one was the god one in the heavens and that you would have no money there
Maybe the gospel authors just retconned him to say that to explain his death

>a fraud

Logical fallacy based on your own bias there OP.

What you are saying is that you are a fraud?

Dark skin != automatically black
He's obviously drawn as an Indian. Why the fuck would a medival depiction of him be black?

I know. But he was not black skinned either. Black skin has a negative connotation in Ancient Indian Art.

it's more brown if anything. besides, deities like kali and krishna are depicted as dark skin. don't forgot nearly the entire population is "black" skinned as well.

Alright, sir

Wait a second

Are you implying... That we were Kings and such?

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It's disturbing how little you understand about memes,especially this one.

The black/blue color represents cosmic indifference, like the night sky or the ocean, not actual human skintone.

>don't forgot nearly the entire population is "black" skinned as well.
Not in Ancient India, before the the Umayyad Holocaust

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Lol at stormtards who know nothing about haplogroups still believing that headline

>In Mahabharat, one of the major epic of India, Draupadi, a “fire born” daughter of Drupada, emerged from the yajna (sacred fire) as a beautiful dark-skinned young woman. Vyasa (author of the Mahabharata) described her as the most beautiful woman of that time with a radiant dusky skin, large intoxicating eyes and a graceful stature.

they were a ruling class minority in ancient india.

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>mainstream academic

No.

Indo-Aryans were white.