“Combatting Cult Mind Control is a nonfiction work by Steven Hassandescribed as a "Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults." The author discusses theories of mind control and cults based on the research of Margaret Singer and Robert Lifton as well as the cognitive dissonance theory of Leon Festinger. Park Street Press, a New Age and alternative beliefs publisher, first published the book in 1988. In 2015, Hassan's own Freedom of Mind Press issued a revised 30th anniversary edition, Combating Cult Mind Control(note different spelling), featuring Hassan's new analysis of how coercive groups use social media to gain undue influence and updates on organizations that he alleges practice mind control. The book, according to the author's website, has been re-published in seven different languages.[1]
Catholicism is not Christianity
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“Combatting Cult Mind Control is a nonfiction work by Steven Hassandescribed as a "Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults." The author discusses theories of mind control and cults based on the research of Margaret Singer and Robert Lifton as well as the cognitive dissonance theory of Leon Festinger. Park Street Press, a New Age and alternative beliefs publisher, first published the book in 1988. In 2015, Hassan's own Freedom of Mind Press issued a revised 30th anniversary edition, Combating Cult Mind Control(note different spelling), featuring Hassan's new analysis of how coercive groups use social media to gain undue influence and updates on organizations that he alleges practice mind control. The book, according to the author's website, has been re-published in seven different languages.[1]
If by cult you mean not-as-popular-as-the-mainstream-interpretation-of-Jesus-teachings, i would suggest that popularity is not the measure of truthiness, since there is a "broad path which leads to destruction", that being the popular path. Conversely, there is a narrow, even narrower path which you ignore, satisfied with the blood you've been sold.
But your reliance on books like this is what i mean by a captured mind, easily captured from anyone naive enough, and selfish enough to wish for the saving of his own skin at the expense of Christ's blood, even upon the death of the virtual embodiment of truth.
Your right up there with the mainstream media in support of the DNC
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Nikos Kazantzakis nailed him, and the entire problem of the new covenant movement, in his book...
This too is an interpretation of the Jesus phenomenon, along with Luther's interpretation which evolved into the mainstream (most popular) interpretation. They insist Jesus was uniquely extraordinary while this author, your movie producer, wishes us to believe Jesus was ordinary. The movie producer says that Jesus was an ordinary man forced into legend by grifters like the apostate Paul who elevated his status to the uniquely extraordinary level for his own, Paul's, personal gain on earth. Your author uses the spectacle of cinema to have Jesus going around trying to quash the rumors about him being extraordinary. In these interpretations both your author, and Trailer Park Ted's favorite authors fail, as is expected of anyone who has a deep emotional investment in existence within the human mileu of man. Together, you function as kind of a good cop bad cop tag team which produces the same result: a rejection of Jesus acceptance of pan-divinity, for himself and for all. Yes, Jesus was as ordinary as any man. His status as a living being was not more unique than anyone else. However, no ones status is what they think it is! Jesus realized this, saw how invested people were in an obsequious sub status hierarchical relationship with man's maker ("God"), rejected that notion and conversely accepted equality with the highest potency in the universe. He accepted an explanation for the experience that man experiences which is a uniquely extraordinary explanation, considering how many people almost universally, to this day, reject his explanation. For example, the parable of the prodigal son is actually a unique explanation of the Genesis of the phenomenon of mankind, as well the Exodus of mankind from his own self-made circumstances. This explanation, to this day, is universally rejected among mankind in favor of the more popular versions of Genesis and/or Exodus offered by Hebrew lore...even among those grifters who twist Hebrew lore to make Jesus himself into a uniquely extraordinary thing of legend. Given Jesus level of understanding of mans circumstances, and his level of acceptance of his original circumstances (before appearing to be a man) he could indeed expose glitches in the matrix by performing uniquely extraordinary feats of mastery over material circumstances. He could, for example, volunteer to be captured by Romans, so he could demonstrate mastery over the pain of the Romans most horrific torture...by not feeling the pain of it...nor accepting the effects of it (death). The whole point of miracles like this was to demonstrate that the world that man thinks he lives in is a fraudulent self-deception which has no effect upon any mind which will accept its original circumstances. No man walks out of a tomb three days after death by torture...unless death itself is a fake fraud within a fraudulent fake "world". Such extraordinary events only happen in...drumroll please....a dream (or a nightmare). The solution for such dreams, then, is to wake up from them, which is what his, Jesus' demonstrations were all about. Nobody walks on water unless...the whole concept of water and gravity is fake and fraudulent. Nobody walks through walls unless...the whole concept of walls is fake and fraudulent.
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Well that's just it, now isn't it? We just keep going 'round and 'round, millennia of asking the same questions over and over and getting nowhere. What a creative species we are!
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EVER read the Bible??
Its much better than than any opinion, especially Psalms Proverbs.
Good points on your last line, I agree with that last line, thanks
(Though I have stated this before Catholicism is the name of a religion and of course it can contain Christians in its membership. )
I would like to emphasize that the damage done by the Catholic church to Jesus's "church" (which is his followers as a collective body), is enormous. The damage is to undo the work Jesus did on the cross and resurrection and teaching of the Way.
That is, the the Catholic church prevents people from being saved by its blasphemous practices and false teachings,
As a result they are not open to hearing of Jesus's Divine gift to the humankind.
This is one slide from the talk and you can see that the Church says they are above God and tell Him what to do:
"The priest speaks and lo! Christ the eternal and omnipotent God bows his head in humble obedience to the priest command."
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and the commentator says
"I can't think of a more blasphemous thing than a sinful wicked priest is going to command Jesus Christ to do anything and yeah that's what they believe."
https://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=zJ5o-CmlC-g
I would like to emphasize that the damage done by the Catholic church to Jesus's "church" (which is his followers as a collective body), is enormous. The damage is to undo the work Jesus did on the cross and resurrection and teaching of the Way.
That is, the the Catholic church prevents people from being saved by its blasphemous practices and false teachings,
- not only to those of the church,
- but to non-Christians
- such as Jews and Muslims
As a result they are not open to hearing of Jesus's Divine gift to the humankind.
This is one slide from the talk and you can see that the Church says they are above God and tell Him what to do:
"The priest speaks and lo! Christ the eternal and omnipotent God bows his head in humble obedience to the priest command."
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and the commentator says
"I can't think of a more blasphemous thing than a sinful wicked priest is going to command Jesus Christ to do anything and yeah that's what they believe."
https://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=zJ5o-CmlC-g
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Not only is this evil, the statement in itself is illogical.
If Christ is omnipotent (all-powerful) do all these evil priests somehow think they have more power than Jesus?
Even Satan (if we consider him as an entity) recognizes that God is has more power than him.
It is incredible how well Satan entered this organization and cleverly made it his church - whose biggest sin is keeping people from being saved, which is Jesus's goal in coming to earth.
Very clever, very devious, very diabolical and very, very effective.
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Keep reading the Jewish religous conspiracy book which fools most into believing it comes from God.
Ya, keep learning from the 'experts' who want to tell you how to get to heaven and escape from that dastardly cunning naughty devil, oooohhhh the wicked devil! - aaaaahhhhh.
Quick! Run the fuk away.
Ya, keep learning from the 'experts' who want to tell you how to get to heaven and escape from that dastardly cunning naughty devil, oooohhhh the wicked devil! - aaaaahhhhh.
Quick! Run the fuk away.