Two Cults I've witnessed
TWO CULTS I'VE WITNESSED
Jim Jones - The People's Temple
I was a young adult hedonist in 1978, living in Ft. Collins, Colorado when the news broke
about Jim Jones' forced mass suicide in Guyana. He was a self-made preacher that preached DEI but practiced deceit, drew attention to himself rather than the New Testament, convinced or forced followers to hand over their assets, and eventually killed the people that believed in him -
because he saw them as his property.
His 900+ victims died because they chose to believe his words over the New Testament.
Had they known the New Testament, they couldn't have been deceived, then conquered, then killed.
I was alive at the time of this tragedy, heard about it, and still decided to follow the true God.
TWO CULTS I'VE WITNESSED
Fred Phelps - Westboro Baptist Church
Fred Phelps was a preacher who went astray. He was part of a Baptist church -
and I now attend a Baptist church. Does that seem odd?
Well, each Baptist church has some elbow room to interpret the Bible,
and each pastor has some elbow room to lead his congregation as he sees fit.
This is like the US Congress. The US Congress has 535 members - and one National Constitution
Yet the only thing some of them have in common with other members - is their basic human DNA.
It the same with many religious denominations.
Now, in the 1990's or early 2000s, I was attending a church that was asked to host a funeral for a member of the armed forces killed in action in the Middle East, and we were honored to do so.
On that day, some of the Westboro-ites were out there, with signs that dishonored the man.
So I've seen their ugliness firsthand.
Hating troops because a nation doesn't execute its homosexuals is flawed religious doctrine.
It is cult.
But it is a cult church - in a field of useful churches with the same denominational label.
To be right, to do what is right - we must read and love the New Testament.
It is our current contract with God.
TWO CULTS I'VE WITNESSED
Are there other cults?
Of course, there are -
But true religion must be grounded in the New Testament -
The New Testament is humanity's current and final contract with God. Period.
And anti-religion is also a form of religion - because it also has a 'supreme being' - humankind.
For atheists...that supreme being ... is humankind.
