What are the ingredients that make a particular religion take

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enablisation of the masses
it has to spread through a channel

like a city center or technology (nazism as religion etc, any ideology)

today you have the internet, and surveilance (satelites and shit)

utilise existing infrastructures & institions

printing press etc

ideology is by nature parasitical and it has to attach itself to something/host to spread, like cannabis/drug use/logistic lines of spread use etc

tvs to fractured cause u guys wanna control the masses by dumbfucking themout but ur pissing in the same pond you drink out of

Huge united political force behind it like Roman Empire or Caliphate.

easy moral loopholes and simplistic belief about the world

>>1575120
middle classes converting or in some cases ruling clases with mass conversions

>>1575120
Apocalyptic fervor followed by imperial bureaucratic and military class converts, followed by a merchants and traders.

Pleb appeal. Charismatic leader. Militantism. State sponsorship. The sword.