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> They are choosing religions that reject elite priesthoods Do you have an example of such in the modern age? I don't really see many people I know "choosing
by arbitrage 6y ago
> They are choosing religions that reject elite priesthoods
Do you have an example of such in the modern age? I don't really see many people I know "choosing religions that reject elite priesthoods"
- flyingfences 6y agoQuakerism would fit the bill, though I don't know how many people are choosing it these days.
- xattt 6y agoThis is hard to define as there is ambiguity between religion and spirituality. Even a subscription to pure scientific worldview is a religion in itself.
- bryanlarsen 6y agoQAnon?
- PeterisP 6y agoQAnon seems to have many parallels with "prophetic" religions where you don't have a priesthood class organizing specific groups of followers e.g. parishes, but you have a priesthood class interpreting the words of a prophet and popularizing these interpretations; in this case "priesthood" isn't a formal distinction, but de facto you tend to have specific minority of people fulfilling this role.