Your New Religion

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It’s easy to consider religions as immense, and old, and hide-bound — immovable monoliths. It’s easy to see them that way, and often, religious leaders strive to achieve just such a view — the patina of age providing a kind of aloof dignity to a set of ideas that might otherwise appear absurd. As a matter of fact, often new religious movements strive for just that patina effect, claiming that their very novelty is a return to the ancient roots of a…