>>12171864It's not about the cult of personality, it's about the externalized manifestation of an abstract organizing principle. The "person" behind the personality becomes more like a conduit, a concept, with which the principle may operate. They place their faith in the principle. The "person" is seen as a God, or perhaps more accurately an inanimate object. A force of nature. People are fallible, people lie to you, people have needs. people have angles, people can fail, abandon, betray, and disappoint you. A force of nature, cannot. It is a stone in a sea of chaos, to which you may cast your anchor. Illuosry though it may be, as the Siren leading the men aground,
All religions function this way. They have an external organizing principle. Sometimes it is God. Sometimes it is race. Sometimes culture and a perceived "way of life". And so on. This is where you get the whole 5D chess mental gymnastics from. It is not unlike saying you cannot know the mind of tyhe creator, God works in mysterious ways! Look, my fellow man. Above us the Gods themselves do battle. You would claim to know their ways? Etc.
A lot of people need that place to put their faith. They need something to believe in, something they feel they can trust. Even if that is secretly a desire to trust oneself, and feel like part of something powerful.
