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In Reply to: Re: Academic Brown-Nosers posted by Joseph on March 24, 2005 at 16:15:47:
History always repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Karl Marx
The problem with Christianity, however, is that it remains just another slave ideology, that is, it is untrue in certain crucial respects. Christianity posits the realization of human freedom not here on earth but only in the Kingdom of Heaven. Christianity, in other words, had the right concept of freedom, but ended up reconciling real-world slaves to their lack of freedom by telling them not to expect liberation in this life.
Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and the Last Man
As the tragic history of slavery repeats itself as a farce in the silly simplistic-minded shenanigans of coercive cults like the Family and other related activities like the forced prostitution of international criminal rings and child labor, where slavery still flourishes on a global scale--we are faced with the Family's Loving Jesus Revelation. A silly, meditative-masturbative-activity based on some threads of religious history depicting intimate and sacred worship of a deity; all this on the heels of decades of stupid religiously motivated sexual abuse.
What can one say?
Erotic stories, sexual acts and fantasies are the things that make up the history of cults and religion and it can be fascinating for scholars and academics to study. But for sociologists, it can often be a bit more than they can chew, perhaps they should read more of Max Weber. And if sociology is a science shouldn't they pay attention to the contrary results as much as the positive?
Instead they say, "Well, we of course know the law of gravity is generally consistent, but you know, there are times when pigs really can fly."
Family members should ask yourself, did you really want to turn your children into performing monkeys, lab rats, and white mice for the likes of J. Gordon Melton and James D. Chancellor to study in order further their careers? Or, in order for King Peter and Queen Maria to gloat over as examples of progressive, modern Christianity to anyone who will listen?
Yet Peter, Zerby and the Family proclaim, "All things are pure to the pure". Yes, and to pigs and goats all things are pure and edible too. It swings both ways. Too silly, too simple.
The Family's simple-minded shouts and proclamations that they are God's chosen because they believe God created sex echo as empty laughter in the theater of farce.
Sex is much too serious and sometimes even dangerous to take lightly. People have died from so-called Ffing--the culprits: violence and AIDS.
These passionate intersections with nature and the subconcious that sex provides have far-reaching implications that these silly, smiling, smooth talking, hard headed, sweet-freaks haven’t a clue about, nor do they know how to deal with the results; yet they continue to actually dictate to their followers—I remember that in former combo homes they controlled everything anyway, and now they even control the kids masturbation. Hello?
To pervert our children with middle-aged men and women’s fantasies of delusional role-playing and sexual feats is just foolish and silly. Most of us, I think, can understand the Arcadian or "all things are pure" theory behind Peter and Maria's machinations, or any cult's desire for purity, peace and some type of heaven—and can agree that it would be nice if life was but a happy dream with happy endings forever?
But sadly, what we have here is a further example of a cult's disconnect with reality:
Their retrograde reliance on ecstatic and excessive sloganeering to burrow their way out of reality or problems is obvious when they say:
Spirituality Above All,they proclaim, or at least they claim that Jesus told them in prophecy to prefer the spiritual above the material. Doesn’t it resonate in your mind? Like something that you have heard before?
Spirituality Uber Alles. This conjures up images and memories of fascists like the Nazis who used to sing Deutschland Uber Alles(Germany Above All); the Family in the face of truth, dissent, reality, success or failure starts to chant:
<b/>Spirituality Uber Alles
The Spiritual is Supreme.
Spirituality requires more than slogans and words--it requires thinking, too; the use of the mind.
