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by the-printer 1301 days ago
> because the religion is not defined by what it originally was or should be, but by how it's actually practiced by people who self-identify as its followers and who are conventionally identified as such by everybody else.

How Terrifying.

Edit (let me explain): This comes across as a very democratic way to describe something that is predominantly undemocratic.