• Mesophar@pawb.social
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    Isn’t/wasn’t the Jesus Army cult UK based? Like, the USA just has a LOT more people than the UK does, it makes sense for there to be more people that fall into fringe groups. But the UK certainly isn’t immune to it.

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      1 month ago

      I’ve never heard of them but it’s always annoying whenever someone says something is worse in america americans will go “hurr durr america bigger so more thing happen” as though the rest of the world isn’t aware of per capita measurements it’s not just numerically a way higher percentage of americans join cults a lot of americans are predisposed to extreme religious views and searching for solutions to societal problems in religion like where that just really isn’t normal here most people aren’t that religious and it’s considered really weird and abnormal for someone to think a rapture or whatever will be the solution to a societal problem people would just laugh at you cults don’t get taken seriously here they’re funny

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        And for the majority of Americans cults just get laughed at as well. At least until it started leaking into politics, but that is being seen in many other countries now, too.

        A lot of Americans are doing horrible things, and there definitely is something about the culture here that affects that, as you don’t see the mass shooting and school shooting issues in other parts of the world as strongly. But coming at this saying that it doesn’t really happen outside of the USA and that it doesn’t happen in the UK is just ridiculous. If you make a statement that infers you don’t understand per capital, then you’ll get a reply making that rebuttal.

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          I literally did not say they don’t happen I said they’re not a major problem they’re really rare and don’t get very big here