A cult happens when there’s one guy at the top who knows it’s all bullshit. Religion happens when that guy is dead.
I can get behind this!
If I were both smart and had no morals, then fuck yeah I would. I’d do it to milk as many people for money as possible. But I have integrity, empathy, and compassion so there’s no way I would ever do it.
The really funny thing is how cults grow into big religions and then big religions subdivide into these denominations that fight forever about who is the “correct” one.
Literally Sunni / Shia started as: after Mohammed died, should Muslims follow his son or his chief cleric.
The difference is in one of them, the founder is dead.