Really OT!

"Opus" wrote ...
Is it possible to link groupthink religious organizations?

hmmm.....

Do you mean within one particular group? If so, I'd say yes in most cases,
excepting the cult-types (but have fun defining 'cult'.) I think that many
religions fall into the staid, monotypic "our way or the highway" way of
thinking, at least at the superficial level. Answering whether or not that
thinking continues once out of the church environs would require further
reading on my part. Dunno, but I'm inclined (in my cynical view of organized
religion) to believe that much of the discourse that makes up modern
American religiosity ain't much more than a bunch-o-hooey designed to make
the purveyor of said hooey look good for the neighbors.

If you mean "can all religions be put under a 'groupthink' banner?" or "do
all religions think the same way?".... well, that one seems a bit trickier,
and I suppose implies that religions are, at least at some level, all the
same. That level, I would probably argue, is somewhere in the realm of
'controlling' or 'dominating' for the purpose of maintaining some semblance
of social/class/gender/whatever hegemony and stasis. But this ain't my line
of study, so that's not much more than a few rambling sentences.....

Interesting question...

Dan