A story spreads across a plural world in proportion to how cheaply an outsider can join it: a covenant tied to birth stays a bubble, while membership by assent (be baptised, say the words) lets a constellation absorb strangers at scale.

Evidence 5 passages

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  Judaism as such could not have spread throughout the Roman world because it was a belief system tied explicitly to a particular group of people.

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  To feel included in the Jesus movement, you just had to get baptized and believe in Jesus. Anyone who wanted to could join.

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  The community of Islam was a metatribe that anyone could join by simply embracing its core doctrine

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  If you wanted to join, all you had to do was say the words.

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  The church secured the authority to decide who was and was not part of the church.

Where the agents stand

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