Some will skip meals, delay significant purchases, or dip into savings". Some critics say that because of all it demands of its disciples, the BCC is "works-oriented;" i.e., that it holds people are saved by their good works, and not by God's grace.
Breath therapy is sold as a trip similar to the kind you'd have on hallucinogenic drugs, only its disciples believe it offers a much more powerful high and won't fuck with your mind the way drugs might.
It's hard to remember that there is such a thing as popular music that defines a culture and just stays around, acquiring deeper meaning as its disciples keep brushing against it.
Yet Deal (as it's probably referred to by its disciple-like contestants) is but a Waco-style siege in a Bristol Travelodge away from TV oblivion.
Its disciples agree on one thing: it works.
If a band sticks around long enough, it can headline a festival of its disciples.
Plain and simply, a religious faith that was designed to attract people through the loving behavior of its disciples is actively pushing them away instead, and it doesn't take a whole lot of brainpower to figure out why.
But for its disciples, the show's mass appeal is its great strength – it functions almost as one long 22-minute meme, and not a TV programme at all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were among its disciples.
Blanc's near-religious fervour asks a lot of its disciples, however.
