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The difference being that religions lack the comfortable layer of detached irony that a modern fandom has. Star Trek fandoms don't insist that Star Trek is the

• TeMPOraL 9y ago
  Yeah. But I feel that's just because that belief is not the part of their fandom. When I look at people from $largeMainstreamReligion, I see people who will defend it as "the genesis of human life and the only source of truth" as a fact of the community you're supposed to accept. But then looking at their lives, they pay at best a lip service to the actual contents of that "source of truth", and instead only participate in the accepted traditions. Basically, I feel that religions, fandoms, school associations ("I'm a Harvard Alumni"), etc. all work pretty much in the very same way.