HSRP-526

Strict demands screen out free riders and bind those who stay, and the stricter religious communes lasted longer; that strictness makes churches grow is disputed.

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1. Header

Number: HSRP-526
Category: Civilizational Analysis
Grade: CONTESTED
Status: ACTIVE
Entry form: Full
First entered: Not recorded — added to the register in supplement 027
Last revised: 2026-10-13
Register entry: https://worldfreedomcore.com/hsrp-research-notes#HSRP-526

2. The claim, in full

Strict demands screen out free riders and bind those who stay, and the stricter religious communes lasted longer; that strictness makes churches grow is disputed.

Cited on: /the-hive-mind, THE RELIGIOUS HIVE MIND › The working parts. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W3a-7.

3. What it rests on

Strict demands screen out free riders and bind those who stay [SRC-961]; among 83 nineteenth-century American communes, the religious ones that demanded more lasted longer [SRC-962].

Source: none linked in the register

No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.

4. Sources

No source is linked to this observation in the register.

5. Counter-evidence

That strictness makes churches grow is contested: the shift to stricter US denominations came mostly from birth rates [SRC-963].

Source: none linked in the register

6. Why this grade

strictness and survival PROBABLE; strictness and growth CONTESTED

The register defines CONTESTED as: Disputed in the underlying science; the dispute is stated rather than omitted.

7. Correction history

2026-10-13: BATCH 3 of the /the-hive-mind slimming: explanation moved here from WHERE YOU'LL FIND IT, CULTS, THE PARTY HIVE MIND or THE RELIGIOUS HIVE MIND — wording unchanged. The page's reference numbers were converted to SRC numbers at extraction.

8. Related observations

HSRP-455 · PROBABLE · With a center, most members follow a reset and refusers leave; without one, a body splits.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-524 · CONTESTED · Durkheim held that a gathered group fixes its shared intensity on its emblems as the sacred, so the reason ends in the group.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-525 · WORKING · Whitehouse's doctrinal mode supplies a center and a channel and his imagistic mode a fence; joined and turned on doubt, they give the cult's form.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-527 · WORKING · Sanctions price dissent, from Spinoza's ban in 1656 to shunning today, and parties and professions use them too: the sanction is a group's act, not a faith's.
Relation: not recorded
HSRP-528 · PROBABLE · A religious center reaches common practice more readily than private conduct: after Humanae Vitae most American Catholics rejected its ban on contraception, and the Soviet state's atheist monopoly closed churches but largely failed to produce atheist conviction.
Relation: not recorded

9. Where this appears on the site

Content pages that cite this observation inline:

The Programmable Hive Mind
“Strict demands screen out free riders and bind those who stay, and the stricter religious communes lasted longer; that strictness makes churches grow is disputed — strictness and survival PROBABLE; strictness and growth CONTESTED”

10. Open questions

Not yet recorded for this observation.

11. Machine block

The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:

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