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[lascapigliata]

in the end pretzels is the same

[whatisonthemoon]

The Unification Church Seeks Influence, Acceptance Among the Political ”Christian” Right (2009)

From the Christian Research Institute Updated: Jul 31, 2022 Published: Jun 9, 2009

After newspapers across America last December revealed Unification Church attempts to infiltrate the political “Christian Right” through gifts to political action commit­tees and conservative Christian groups, the Moonies quieted their activities.

Now some Unification Church-watchers are concerned that the group is stepping-up another tactic which may result in political acceptance: infiltrat­ing independent charismatic ministries to gain favor in the bur­geoning charismatic movement as a whole.

“They’re out there winning friends and influencing people,” said a source at the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) who did not want to be named, adding that gaining acceptance in America is essen­tial to the church��s objective of having their leader Sun Myung Moon recognized as the second coming of Christ.

Last December’s articles, which appeared mostly in promi­nent Knight-Ridder newspa­pers, stated that in March 1987 Moon forged an alliance with the Christian Voice, the largest con­servative Christian lobby in America. They also reported that Moon has been funding anticom­munist guerrillas in Central Amer­ica, Afghanistan, and the Philip­pines, and that the Unification Church gave the late John T. Dolan, founder of the 300,000-member National Conserva­tive Political Action Commit­tee, a $775,000 gift. Former Trea­sury Secretary Robert Ander­son had also been paid $127,500 as a Unification Church consultant.

Recently the NAE warned its members to be wary of Unification Church attempts to infil­trate their ranks by joining with organizations that seem to have conservative goals. Moon-watch­ers say two points of Moonie infiltration into the Christian community have been over issues of religious freedom and anticom­munism.

In recent years certain Chris­tian leaders have been criticized for what some perceived as drawing too close to the Unifi­cation Church. Several years ago Tim LaHaye, Christian author and head of the American Coalition for Traditional Val­ues, came under fire for accept­ing a gift from Col. Bo Hi Pak, a former Korean intelligence offi­cer, president of the Washington Times newspaper, and Moon’s right-hand man. Since then, a number of pastors from a broad spectrum of denominations have received free trips from CAUSA, a Unification Church-funded anticommunism organization. Churchmen have also been speaking at CAUSA rallies (e.g., Jerry Fallwell spoke at a confer­ence in Miami last year which was co-sponsored by CAUSA).

Another group admitting Uni­fication Church funding is the American Freedom Coalition (AFC), publisher of the monthly Religious Freedom Alert, headed by Donald Sills as president and Robert Grant as chairman. Although LaHaye, Florida pastor D. James Kennedy, and others have left the AFC because of the Moon connection, others, such as Trinity Broadcasting Net­work’s Paul Crouch, Ben Armstrong of the National Religious Broadcasters, evangelists James Robison and Rex Humbard, and other prominent evangelicals have remained on AFC’s executive committee. (Although there is no known direct connection between CAUSA and AFC, Sills often speaks at CAUSA func­tions. CAUSA is headed by Phillip V. Sanchez, former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and Columbia.)

In recent days Sills has been concentrating on attacking anti-cult organizations as a threat to religious freedom to audiences with a high percentage of charismatics. Sills (who visited Moon during his prison term) appeared May 3 on Crouch’s “Praise the Lord” show on TBN and denounced the secular Cult Awareness Network (CAN). From there Sills went on the AFC’s radio network hosted by Grant and sharply criticized CAN and cultwatchers in gener­al. (In recent months Sills has emerged as a public affairs spokesman for the Greater Grace World Outreach — formerly The Bible Speaks World Outreach, a controver­sial group a federal judge recent­ly ordered to return $6.6 million in contributions it swindled from a former member.)

But many agree that the church’s best attempt at influencing the political right is Bo Hi Pak’s Washington Times newspa­per, which is reportedly losing $200 million a year. Moon him­self is widely reported as saying he is having an influence on Pres­ident Reagan “through the Wash­ington Times”.

[rajrichard]

Emperor Emmanuel Church or Zion is a group located in Kerala, India.This post examines a few facts to determine whether this group is a cult or not.Read more…

Read time: 7 min

[lascapigliata]

not just any cult but THE CHILDREN OF GOD !!!!!

when u have so many things u want to draw that it becomes overwhelming so u just do nothing

[thenicknameprodigygal]

#CityOfAngelsInternationalChristianChurch #CultWatch This is a reddit about #CityOfAngels and numerous people continue to say it’s a cult and RUN! Please be careful at ALL schools! https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvcz_TQH6VE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fl02tqnkxbse

[aacultwatch]

aacultwatch Blogspot lectures on...Protection from Harassment?

A recent email:

“Dear Cultwatch parodiers,

“Did one of my rare browses of the AA Cultwatch (blogspot). Always good for a giggle. I must be seeing things. They posted about harassment? Isn’t that like Hitler hosting a peace conference? (loved your video by the way) [link to the video here]

“Had a little click on some of their topics and the abuse they spew on AAs is THE most extreme harassment I’ve come across in AA. They don’t just do it once they keep writing BS then leave it up to continue the harassing. 

“I say they but it’s just the same old loser posting the same old dross. I remember that old writing style. He’s now disappearing up his own asshole. Lecturing OTHERS on harassment, planning to lecture on sponsoring. AA cultwatch is anti-sponsorhip. They rant on about sponsorship not being part of the “original AA”. They really are out of touch with the mainstream membership.

“Do keep on publishing emails and posting. We need to be reminded that this cultwatch tosser is a bitter and dishonest hypocrite.

“Love in Fellowship,��

[Name withheld]

Thanks to our correspondent. All too true unfortunately. aacultwatch blogspot is infamous in AA UK for its online harassment of members like Clancy, Dennis, Kenneth M, David C, various small meetings, and of course there was that creepily obsessive period they became AAwaynewatch!

Anyhow, we look forward to having a large laugh as they publish their “thoughts” on sponsorship. Go for it fella!

Love in Fellowship,

The Watchmen.

[aboriginalnewswire]

FBI Report – Satanic Ritual Abuse – CULTWATCH

FBI Report – Satanic Ritual Abuse – CULTWATCH

Allegations of and knowledge about ritualistic or satanic abuse may also be spread through urban legends. In _The Vanishing Hitchhiker_ (1981,) the first of his four books on the topic, Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand defines urban legends as “realistic stories concerning recent events (or alleged events) with an ironic or supernatural twist” (p. xi.) Dr. Brunvand’s books convincingly explain that just…

[normal-horoscopes]

Here's a good article from cultwatch.

Unless you are yourself in danger, do whatever you can do to stay in contact. Cults thrive on isolating their victims. Keeping communication open is key, and forms the foundation of the next steps.

Actually, come to think of it, how *should* you react to friends and family who are in a cult? Because I feel like abandoning them probably just isolates them from any friend who's not in the cult and makes it harder to leave.

[hactavistaanonymous777]

FBI REPORT––SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE

FBI REPORT––SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE From the same FBI unit depicted in the movie Silence of the Lambs this FBI Behavioral Science Unit Report into Satanic Ritual Abuse is objective and revealing. Cultwatch recommends that any law enforcement officer considering acting against someone accused of Satanic Ritual Abuse first read this report in it’s entirety. 1992 […]FBI REPORT––SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE

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on cults and midsommar and defense against indoctrination, only under a cut bc it’s long

there is a reason that i will not enter a scientology org ever, even though i am at this point like an amateur expert on scientology and think my defenses are pretty strong. the closest i ever came was the lobby of the l ron hubbard life exhibit or the psychiatry industry of death museum in hollywood and in both cases i was with other people. in the museum if i was alone it would really only take one factoid that sounded plausible - and there were some - to be like, “hmm well they’re not wrong about literally everything"... and that’s all it takes for cults. one single opened door

interpreting midsommar correctly is great* but it’s a film which inherently has distance from its audience, and  not a subtle film either. i would hope that ppl’s takeaway is not “i saw that the harga were a cult therefore i’m not too susceptible to cults” but “i saw the harga was a cult and i saw how easy it was for a vulnerable person to be targeted by a cult and how welcoming a cult can feel”

like, feeling catharsis when all the women cry together is fine. of course! that's what makes it work! what’s important is knowing that the relief and emotion - and yes, a little bit of girl power - you as a viewer feel too is powered by a cult, knowing that the girl power and the cult are the same, knowing how that one single door opens even with the separation of a screen and a script

plus, even thinking you’re too smart for a cult is a sign that you’re not, bc some cults/conspiracy theories like flat earth 100% target ppl who think they are smarter than others around them, since that sense of superiority is an isolating factor. there was a great piece recently about soulcycle & showed a lot of cult indicators and they’re pretty insidious, same with the wellness industry more generally. same with some fandom spaces (babygate, i’m thinking). none of these are stereotypical cults, all of which could target ppl who otherwise think they are pretty immune

that doesn’t mean like shut yourself off from all communities - far from it! healthy communities, powered by mutual respect and openness, are the ultimate defense against cults. just like... the next best defense is not knowledge imo, it is humility

*to be clear i don’t think this is what op of that post was intending. this is me taking it a step further. midsommar is a fine starter barometer it’s just an attitude i’ve seen implied in many places

[captainswan618]

Cultwatch - How Cults Work

My hypothesis is that in like 10 years gen z is gonna have a big cult boom the way the boomers did in the 70s

[mormonboylive]

Whatever your beliefs are beware of catching "cult brain" or you could lose your values...and all your rights! Fight "cult brain"! #cultmodel #cultbrain #cults #cultwatch #culture #cult #radical (at Salt Lake City, Utah)

[thenicknameprodigygal]

#CultWatch These are the guys at #LongBeachCityCollege #LACcampus and they try to recruit people to control them #CityOfAngelsInternationalChristianChurch https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvcv2A1nMWQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=w19d807a0sc5

[aacultwatch]

Readers’ Digest

Well well: now that AACultwatch blogspot is posting with such frequency (every five months), it’s obvious there’s a desperate crisis in AA in England, Something really urgent. Why else would they be posting so frequently? Anyhoo, for your entertainment and delight we present a selection of the most entertaining emails we received in the last 5 months about AACultwatch blogspot, starting with the most recent, an email that reminded us the blog was still releasing the occasional drip of lukewarm crap:

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Fellas, that N.A. who wrote to Cultwatch about Roads and DAA is Lee Rees. He funnels addicts from the Fellowship to his treatment centre Restart Recovery - http://www.reestartrecovery.co.uk/team.html which he makes money off of, exactly the sort of profit that AAcultwatch is against. Do they do ANY research on the people that email them? [name withheld]

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Howdy again "Fellas", It took the months to post it but have you seen the new rant on aacultwatch [blogspot]? It’s like he's still copying and pasting. Whens the last time they got an email. Does anyone read it except for entertainment? What a plonka rodney... I travel for work and pop into one of these "cult" meetings every so often. Nothing's ever happened to me. Bizarre. [snip] -

Guys, you should know about this. I went to a meeting last week in the South East when one of them "evil" people that cultwatch like to talk about appeared, newcomer in tow. Christ you should have seen it. One young guy comes in to speak says how the meeting should "cult-proof" itself, starts bitching at the "evil" person, looks straight at him. The newcomer walks out halfway through. It was f@@king horrific. Again methinks the cure is worse than the disease [name withheld]

- [snip] Yes I know of Pete V [Pete Vandermeer] too. He is very well-known around these parts, in and out like Remainer on speed. That gent is happy to give us a rant about what's wrong with our fellowship, and chat to the younger female newcomers. One time a secretary had to warn him off. We don't understand why it's people like this that the CultWatch [blogspot] looks up to. Their blog is a popularity contest, not to help alcoholics anonymous[snip] - Fellas and the lady, 

WTF - I was digging through your archives. Hilarious! And so sad in places too. Can't believe JH [John Hodgman] is an aacultwatch supporter. A bit of character around here - a gambling addict, likes to flutter down the local. With or without a beer - who knows? We looked around on the web after I saw him on here, he's got a wierd Facebook set-up of multi-profiles - a man who's trying to hide something. John loved to wander round conference back in the day, when he worked at GSO, saying snide things to delegates about other delegates. Real evil critter.  Cheers, [name witheld] - [snip]...and here's why I think this has nothing to with AA. In our Region we know Wayne and he's an OK AAer. Not my cup of tea and I wouldn't go to the meetings, then there's many I won't go to. What I do not comprehend is the hyperreligious Back to Basics meeting in Plymouth at the Christian Centre has been going on for years, and Cultwatch [blogspot] never talk about it. They go on about Roads but not Back to Basics in Plymouth. I occasionally mull on the thought that the site’s written by a bitter ex-Roadie who goes to BTB? [snip] -

Phew - that’s enough! God bless AACultwatch Blogspot - spreading lies and killing newcomers since 2007!

In fellowship,

The Fellas (and the lady)

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