I mean pretty much all religion is a cargo cult. How is a cargo cult fundamentally different than Catholicism, which has a series of rituals in preparation of the return of Jesus?
Isn’t that the same thing as a cargo cult? The key shared similarity is that neither religious people nor cargo cultists understand how their desired goal works (a good afterlife or cargo respectively). Both groups believe they can obtain their desired goal, despite having no knowledge of its mechanism of action, if they blindly carry out their respective rituals.
