John Frum

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Cargo cult lives on in South Pacific.

This story always fascinates me, not sure why, I think it's another example of how off the wall the beliefs of a religion can sound to those outside of it. Plus wondering exactly how this came about.

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i just learned about this from the richard dawkins book. he's using it as an example of how religions spring up.

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Hah I thought about that when I was posting this - I mean, I didn't know it was in the book but, I thought this was probably the type of thing somebody like Richard Dawkins might bring up.

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oh yes. this from the article: A Christian youth worker told me how he thought the cult was childish. "It's like a baby playing games," he insisted. "Those people are holding on to a dream that will never come true," he said. is just begging for a comparison. (christianity isn't a made up dream that will never come true?)

p.s. they had a "survivor" on vanuatu recently