User blog comment:NotAnEditor/Why no Religion?/@comment-113335-20090911193519

I do think obbsessive fandom (TaliBEAN) and over the top cults (MMK) should be okay.

As for the cargo cult question, no, it's not offensive. Their doctrine states that by imitating what their Caucasian colonial oppressors did to have ships and planes come into harbor, they'd get the precious cargo (televisions, guns, iron, video games, technology in general) which was prophesized as belonging to them, but "mysteriously taken by the white people". They have a figure similar to Jesus, a military G.I. soldier who is supposed to come with cargo and save the day from whatever oppression they were under. I took this from peices of a Wikipedia link. The link.

LD is correct, however, that we should not confuse Extremism with sane people and actual faiths. I think Extremism is parodiable in full COC context because it's obbsession and mortal will that makes the terrorists do what they do as opposed to God's will or the Koran (I probably know more about Islam than some terrorists, and I'm Christian). For instance, Allah (Islam god) gives suiciders a one-way ticket to the Islam Bad Place, that Jihad must be an attack on the faith and a danger to Allah, not anger against a country, and that you can't martyr yourself.

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