Was just reminded of a conversation I had when I was still working (doing the stay-at-home-Dad thing last couple years, loving it). Upon a co-worker discovering I am not a Christian, he started exploring my beliefs. When I explained that, since all faiths lack any definitive objective PROOF, I consider them all equally viable, he took things in a slightly crazy direction, albeit calmly and sincerely. He brought up what his pastor had spoken of...converts from Islam who reveal the "secret" parts of the Qu'ran, where MOhammed admits that the entire thing is Satanically inspired, parts which contain specific exhortations to tear down Christianity. I countered with stories of supposed converts to Islam who "reveal" secret Biblical passages which are Satanically inspired where the Christians are warned of the coming of the Prophet, and the need to suppress the Message. And my co-worker mentioned that his pastor had also told of Hindu converts, and BUddhists, who similarly "revealed" the secrets of their faiths.
Have any others on here encountered this twisted insanity?
Has anyone else experienced this?
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I have, it seems that many converts seem to find secret Satanic meanings to their previous faith, even if such meaning is never understood by the believers or an outside observer.
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I find that it's just much easier (as well as far better accepted nearly everywhere) to simply blame the Jews.
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I -ACTUALLY- think that tendency is Satanically-inspired.Cail wrote:I find that it's just much easier (as well as far better accepted nearly everywhere) to simply blame the Jews.
Crazy?
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Re: Has anyone else experienced this?
Twice. Once this weird local cult (only 10 or 15 members...who all drove Saabs...I haven't yet figured out the significance of that obvious mystical situation)...I only knew one member [former hs physics teacher/former atheist/former Catholic]...said the Word was corrupt except that of the "True Nation of Isreal" [everyone, including Jews, except one particular group..]Seven Words wrote:
Have any others on here encountered this twisted insanity?
The other a reformed Budhist Jehovah's Witness that knocked on my door on Cape Cod early on a Saturday...don't know the rest of his story...I might have been rude...
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
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the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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I thought it was the Masons?Cail wrote:I find that it's just much easier (as well as far better accepted nearly everywhere) to simply blame the Jews.
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the only similar thing I've come across are some various bus-going Christians (of whom denominations I have yet to discover) I ride with who are pretty vehement with their opinion that Mormonism is a cult.
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By definition, they are.Avatar wrote:I thought all religions were cults?
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I foolishly engaged in a public debate about 3 years ago with a fundamentalist minister of Evolution vs. Creationism. He had brought his congregation along (about 150 people I guess) while a variety of interested folks showed up (perhaps about 400 others). His church-goers shouted various comments about me going to hell, being fooled by Satan, that I was secretly a muslim (I laughed audibly at that one) and was even challenged to a fight by a kid of maybe 17-18 for telling lies.
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So no, its the scientists
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Eh, not really. One of the accepted indicators of a cult is that its beliefs are outside of mainstream society. Another one is that it isolates its members from outside society. Neither of those could be applied to most mainstream religions.
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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No, I've never before heard of converts from one faith exposing the dirty scriptural laundry of their prior belief system to their new one, but it doesn't surprise me and is probably even likely.
The trouble with organized religion is that there's more than one of them, so naturally they take exception to one another.
Me? I've cut out the middlemen and go straight to the top.
The trouble with organized religion is that there's more than one of them, so naturally they take exception to one another.
Me? I've cut out the middlemen and go straight to the top.
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Meh. Maybe not the modern usage of the word. However, there was certainly a time when the ideas and practices of modern accepted religion were outside the mainstream.Cail wrote:Eh, not really. One of the accepted indicators of a cult is that its beliefs are outside of mainstream society. Another one is that it isolates its members from outside society. Neither of those could be applied to most mainstream religions.
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I'm not talking about anything ACTUAL..I'm talking about wholesale FABRICATION. Like all these supposed "ex-Wiccans" who talk about how their covens planned all kinds of things specifically to turn people away from Jesus.Demondim-spawn wrote:No, I've never before heard of converts from one faith exposing the dirty scriptural laundry of their prior belief system to their new one, but it doesn't surprise me and is probably even likely.
The trouble with organized religion is that there's more than one of them, so naturally they take exception to one another.
Me? I've cut out the middlemen and go straight to the top.
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Which is totally ridiculous, of course. Christian fundamentalists have turned more people against their religion than Wicca ever could.Seven Words wrote:I'm not talking about anything ACTUAL..I'm talking about wholesale FABRICATION. Like all these supposed "ex-Wiccans" who talk about how their covens planned all kinds of things specifically to turn people away from Jesus.Demondim-spawn wrote:No, I've never before heard of converts from one faith exposing the dirty scriptural laundry of their prior belief system to their new one, but it doesn't surprise me and is probably even likely.
The trouble with organized religion is that there's more than one of them, so naturally they take exception to one another.
Me? I've cut out the middlemen and go straight to the top.
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When I was canvassing for the environment in Santa Fe I had a very interesting conversation with this very skinny blond guy who was watering his plants-and he had tons of plants. Maybe he thought he was channeling "God" or something but before I said anything he said to me, "You're a Christian whether you know it or not and have totally fooled yourself by not believing in evil." Which was interesting because I don't, except as a personal state of mind, ala Hell. I told him I considered myself a seeker not a Christian because I really don't go for communal things.
After some very intense, highly cordial, banter about these issues he came up with a multitude of examples of how the devil was such a great deceiver. Then we discussed the criteria for entrance into heaven. Finally I said, "What if after you led such a good life, and got to the Gates, St. Peter ripped his face off and said, "Ha! fooled you all!!!". We both looked at each other like "whoa" and walked away...
After some very intense, highly cordial, banter about these issues he came up with a multitude of examples of how the devil was such a great deceiver. Then we discussed the criteria for entrance into heaven. Finally I said, "What if after you led such a good life, and got to the Gates, St. Peter ripped his face off and said, "Ha! fooled you all!!!". We both looked at each other like "whoa" and walked away...
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I got that. But the religion/s to which the ex-wiccans have converted, too gladly accept these fabrications as fact. Or pretend to.Seven Words wrote:[I'm not talking about anything ACTUAL..I'm talking about wholesale FABRICATION. Like all these supposed "ex-Wiccans" who talk about how their covens planned all kinds of things specifically to turn people away from Jesus.