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I'm going to make you look even stupider than your statement seems on the surface, which is saying a lot:
religion x to mainstream religion x = the same thing, only more intensified.
doggy poo to sandwich = completely different things, a significant transformation
Faulty logic!
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You are saying something with no legitimacy (bull****, if you will) grows into legitimacy over time.
I mean, I guess when you say legitimacy I'm thinking that that entails a certain truth claim?
Like an illegitimate religion is one that makes a demonstrably false truth claim, a more legitimate religion is one that makes a dubious truth claim, and a legitimate one makes a truth claim that is not demonstrably false and is even plausible, if unlikely.
But truth claims are not, ceteris paribus, subject to evolution, so then doesn't your argument fall apart? Or is there something beyond a truth claim going on in "legitimacy"? I think we have to define our terms here.