The leader answers to no one. He doesn't stand for (real) re-election. There is no functionalCouncil of Elders or Board of Directors or Board of Trustees that can discipline him or replace him if he fails to perform his duties properly. Nobody even has the authority to define just what his duties are, for that matter. Everybody else needs the guru to boss him around, but nobody bosses the guru around.
This needs no explanation.
The guru criticizes everybody else, but nobody criticizes the guru.
Criticizing the leader would conflict with Cult Rule Number One -- The Guru Is Always Right.
Dispensed truth and social definition of reality
The cult and its leaders are the source of all Truth, Wisdom, and Knowledge. The leader proclaims the new doctrine, the new revelation. The cult defines reality and declares what the truth really is and what good and bad are.
Any outsiders who espouse a different 'truth' are attacked as evil or stupid, or just ignored.
Cult leaders often impose very strict rules on their followers, while breaking those same rules themselves.
| "Oh Lord, Grant that we may always be right, For you know that we will never change our minds. |
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