Maybe it was a Gilbert and Sullivan chorus. The lyrics can be tricky.
Like the one Data was singing maybe.
That's not the way it works, though. What happens is that you have an established religion, in which numerous people come up with, and agree upon, a variant in interpretation simultaneously, through discussion. They in turn discuss this with others, who either agree or disagree, and they hive off. We don't need to look for first causes, here: it would be useless. But typically religions begat religions, not individuals. That's even true about religion groups centered around solar deities, such as the Orphics, the Dionysiacs, and the Christos worshippers. All began within and moved slightly out of other, larger groups. Over time, given the separations, more and more changes occurred. But it's a cult when a single person announces, commands, compels others.
Well, I was thinking of both, the first timer, and the current "lazy ones" that deviate from some one else's work, hehhehe. In "SPACE", the character James Michener (spelling?) created, reminded me of Jim Baker, maybe. Anyway, he was a con-man who wanted to get rich quick. He finds the right place, meaning with legal loop holes for him to take advantage of, and establishes his own university, wherupon as the Dean of such, he awards himself a diploma or degree as needed, for each scheme he devises. Eventually he hears Billy Graham, or someone like him, and is inspired to take money that way. So he makes himself a theologist and begins preaching to get money donated to him. Eventually he has so much money, he quits that racket, while the church he created lives on without him. He has a wife and others at first to help him, etc. That's the gist of it, if not an accurate quoting. I was more interested in the space program elements and considered the rest the boring parts to get through. The made-for-television mini-series condensed so much of the novel, that the guy seemed like less of a conman, than he is portrayed in the novel, which is as thick as Hubbard's.
But anyway, I understood your points! When I was very young/little, we used to go to church, but both Grandpa and Dad hated the donation of money part, so that was one incentive as to why we quit going as semi-regulars. We still go for funerals and rare weddings though.
Please send him congratulations.[/QUOTE]
I will! But he just went to sleep, so it'll have to wait.
