As I read, I remembered a pathetic case:
"Let's get it over with. Let's end this agony".
After hearing these words from the mouth of American evangelical pastor Jim Jones, 918 people committed suicide on 18 November 1978 in a remote part of Guyana in north-western South America.
The “largest mass suicide in history”, as the media covering the tragedy that year called it.
Many followers are weak-minded, manageable, controllable, manipulable. Any adjective is an understatement for such retrograde behaviour.
Certainly, we are “leaders” for certain activities and for certain groups of people, and “followers” in other circumstances. *We live in a world of oscillations…
I suspect that in general, people who think a religion is going to save them are pretty sheeplike. As a result, the religions are usually led by wolves.