Accepting bullshit for security is another way to put it.
“Just have faith!” when you hear this know your being persuaded to accept some hardship for the advantage of another, not you. You’ve been made to think it’s for you, in the end, but therein lies the lie.
Whether the scam is a business, relationship or a religious pursuit when one hears “Just have faith!” then there is some crap for you around the corner and your being asked to soak it up no questions asked. On the premise that the other person knows more about your future and your needs/wants than you do.
This might be fine if an emergency responder says it or someone helping do deal with an emergency that needs you to trust them while they perform some dangerous task to your benefit. Fire fighter getting you down a scary ladder would be a good example.
Living a life on this premise though is a dangerous path and chances are your being taken advantage of. You wont notice because in your mind there will be some ‘for the higher cause’ idea.
Religions can and do abuse this. This is also true of abusive relationships.
But where is the line between a religion being abused by a bad person or relationship with a sour moment and a destructive cult or relationship that is just full on abusive?
When the bad outweighs the good.
A very important point here also, how far away in the future is the good? If your being subjected to a life of servitude to ‘earn’ your right to being immortal when you die then you’ve been taken for a mug.
If you’ve been with a partner forever and they keep saying it’ll be better later when… your in an abusive relationship. If you can’t be happy now for whatever reason then your being led along by the nose.
Nothing should occupy all your free effort for some promised nebulous idea. If your forgoing treats to save up for a holiday, that’s different.
If your giving up all your spare time and cash to some version of immortality or killing in the name of it – you’ve been taken for a mug.
Life lives now. Not in the future or after death.
Life lives now.