I think the Bible was authored by people who are railing against Babylon--for thousands of years. Here we are, thousands of years later with Babylon cropping up again. How is it possible it's persisted for such a long time. There's a handful of languages that have been around for a similar span of time, but not much else.
New religions, like Scientology, are modeled on the initiatory rites, levels, and schemes of mystery religions. In a span of a handful of decades, the corporate religion of scientology amassed a huge pile of assets. Even something totally bizarre and criminal like the Aum Shin Rikyo death cult managed to amass a fortune in a short span of time.
The scams and schemes and corporate body are one thing, but the rites, symbols and ideology are another. How would all that babylonian religion stuff, much of which is obscure and useless nonsense persist? It's really quite weird. What's the value for the insiders in knowing all about the pantheon of "gods" and all their weird symbols? What's the mechanism of preserving and transmitting, and error correcting that pile of random nonsense factoids?
The Catholic Church is an "old religion" compared to Scientology. It seems to be overtly "christian" but is really a Babylonian Mystery cult on the inside, and was from the very start since it mutated from a Roman Empire institution into a European Empire building institution. Arguably it mutated again with the British Empire and Masonry.
It seems like a major part of that cult is pederasty. If people in the west knew that child rape was part of the doctrine of the leadership of the church, it'd probably be destroyed brick by brick--although maybe today people are too dull and disconnected to really have any such reaction.
Anyway, how could these institutions maintain their own doctrinal discipline over such a long span of time?
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