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As in the church, it isn't too terribly important to dogma that it has widespread acceptance among adherents to a particular faith in order to be dogma.
What is far more important to establishing dogma is having de facto authority and/or status leaders accept it and voice their support.
Doesn't this apply to any system where power is tilted and the high status members have ideologies? Should we call them all religions?
I suppose this happens in the way you note. I don't advocate labeling LW, or anyone else, a religion. I just meant to say certain aspects remind me of religion. Other aspects are nothing like religion.
I don't think cryonics is impossible. In fact, I'm probably in the proto-rationalist group that doesn't really understand the science but thinks it has a high probability of working someday. I just don't understand why it is so appealing.
The dogma seems to be more that "cryonics and the option for indefinite life extension is good" more than "cryonics is possible".
It may not be a religion but it sure as anything embraces a particular mythology.