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SubGenius Digest #277
Forwarding: CATALOG OF THE CULTS
Lyndon in my life
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It was amazing to see that piece on Alaska and the post office.
It appeared (was first published?) in SWAPA,
the Swarthmore Warders of imaginative literature Amateur Press Association
the piece is a parody of my friend's radioactive death bunies [sic] of
stanford. I will post it as soon as I can.
adam
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CATALOG OF THE CULTS
Ahmadiyya Movement - Founder: Hazat Mirza
. "Jesus was not a partner in the Godhead, as was not Jacob. Both
of them were beloved prophets of God" (True Christianity and How it
Leads to Islam).
American Atheist Center - Founder: Madalyn Murray O'Hair
. "There is no God, thus Jesus is not the Son of God."
Ananda Marga Yoga - Leader: Shrii Shrii Anandamurti
. Jesus is considered God, but there is no Trinity. "Be constantly
absorbed in the thought of God and you too will become God." (Baba's
Grace-Discourses of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti).
Anthroposophical Society - Leader: Rudolf Steiner
. "According to Steiner, Jesus of Nazareth was just an ordinary man
until, at the age of thirty, he received the Christ-Essence during his
baptism at the Jordan." (Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley,
CA : Letter, Feb, 1977) Steiner was an occult medium who interpreted
the Bible through clairvoyance.
Arica - Leader: Oscar Ichazo
. "The point of Arica is enlightenment, man's transcending from the
state of ego into what's known as the void. This is a state of
consciousness ... It's not God. It's God Consciousness." Aricans
blend physical exercise and meditation. God is formless, thus Christ
cannot be God (Awakening Ways to Psycho-Spiritual Growth, C. William
Henderson).
Assemblies of Yahweh -
. "John 2:19) is sometimes presented as evidence that Yahshua is
the Almighty, that He is co-equal with His Father, and that He had the
power to resurrect Himself. This, of course, is a false, trinitarian
concept" (The Sacred Name Broadcaster, Lincoln Frost). "We find the
trinitarian doctrine to be foreign to the Inspired Scriptures."
(Doctrine #5).
Baha'i World Faith -
. Baha'i, an independent world religion based on "a unique
revelation of God," traces its roots to an early division within
Islam. God, called by different names, is one but unknowable. Christ
was a "manifestation" of God and a way to God, but not the ONLY way to
God.
Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship - Leader: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
. "God is a secret and a mystery, but man is also a mystery. Only
God can see God. So if man is to see God, he must become God. Man
becomes God, and God becomes man. It's no big deal," says Bawa.
(Psychology, April,1976).
Black Muslim - Leader: Wallace D. Fard (Allah-God) and Elijah Poole
(Elijah Muhammad - Fard's prophet)
. Also called "The Nation of Islam." Elijah Muhammad said that
Jesus was "only a prophet and not the equal of Moses and Muhammad, and
His religion was Islam, not the Christianity of the Pope of Rome."
(Pittsburgh Courier, 1959).
Buddhism (Hinayana Buddhism and Mahayanna Buddhism) -
. "In Hinayana Buddhism there is no god as we conceive of God ...
The followers of Mahayanna Buddhism tend to deify Buddha. Their idea
of God; However, has no such comprehensive attributes as has the
Christian God" (Religions in a changing World, Howard F. Vos) This
eliminates the possibility of Jesus as a deity.
Cabala (Kabbalah) -
. Cabala is a system of Jewish Mystical thought which originated in
Southern France and Spain in the 12th and 13th centuries. The Cabala
doctrine of deity recognizes only two deities - the hidden god, the
infinite great divine Nothing; and the dynamic god of religious
experience (Spiritual Counterfeits Project).
Center for Spiritual Awareness - Leader: Roy Eugene Davis
. Also called: Christian Spiritual Alliance. Buddha, Sri Krishna,
and Jesus were enlightened souls. "The second coming of Jesus is a
fanciful hope. The awakening of individuals to the realization of
their own Christ-nature is what will liberate man and transform
society" (Darshan: The vision of Light, Roy E. Davis). Jesus was a
man who reached Christ-consciousness and was on earth to share the
truth of this consciousness.
Children of God - Leader: David Brandt Berg (Moses David)
. Started as a fundamentalist counter-culture ministry, but
degenerated into belief in the occult, reincarnation, and sexual
permissiveness. The COG believes that Berg is the ONLY end-time
prophet; that the COG IS the remnant church of the last days; that its
authority is absolute; and in the use of blasphemy, profanity,
vulgarity, and pornography. (Moody Monthly July/August 1977).
Christian Scientist - Founder: Mary Baker Eddy
. Jesus was a mere man who demonstrated the Christ (i.e. a divine
idea). It doesn't matter whether Christ ever existed, and His blood
doesn't cleanse from sin. (Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures, The First of Christ Scientist and Miscellany, both by Mary
baker Eddy).
Church of the Living Word - Leader: John Robert Stevens
. Also called: THE WALK. "Jesus Christ came to participate in
humanity and make the bridge of communication so that God could
communicate himself into our very beings. What He is, we become" (The
Word Became Flesh, a Living Word Publication). According to Stevens,
this begins with contemporary revelations which make the the Living
Word (Christ) to the World. Although some acknowledgement is made of
the inspiration and authority of the Scripture, in practice the source
of teaching is current revelation, not the Bible. Stevens considers
himself God's chief intercessor.
Church Universal and Triumphant - Leader: Elizabeth Claire Prophet
. Also called: Summit International or Summit Lighthouse. The
Church Universal and Triumphant is a mixture of eastern religions,
Theosophy, Christianity, and many other things. Elizabeth is
recognized as one of the two witnesses of Revelation 11. Her late
husband and founder, Mark, is considered a man that had the Christ
Consciousness within him. He was one of many who achieved the "God
self" witness.
Dhyana-Mandiram - Leader: Pandit Usharbudh
. "God is essentially formless ... God may manifest Himself-
Herself-Itself in any form, at any time, at any place, on any planet
... Jesus may be accepted as one of the many incarnations of God."
(Hinduism: An Introduction, Pandit Usharbudh and Yorke Crompton).
Divine Light Mission - Leader: Guru Maharaj Ji
. Guru Ji is the Living Perfect Master. Jesus was the Perfect
Master of His time, but Ji has replaced Him. Ji claims the world
needs the knowledge of Reality, and he claims to be the source of that
knowledge and of peace in the world, according to David J.
Hesselgrave, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
ECKANKAR - Leader: Sri Darwin Gross
. ECKANKAR says it is the wellspring and essence of all religions,
philosophies, and sacred doctrines. It claims to be the way to God-
realization via the "ancient science of soul travel." ECKANKAR makes
the biblical God into a demon who as creator is responsible for the
evil in the world and defines Christ as "god as all men are god" ("Eck
World News, December, 1978, page 13).
Findhorn Foundation University of Light - Leaders: Peter and Eileen
Caddy
. "The Devic (Deva is a being of light) would emphasize that man
has to do one thing to reverse the trend of events on the planet: he
has to recognize within himself the Divinity and wholeness of which he
is a part" (The Magic of Findhorn, Paul Hawken). They separate Jesus
and Christ and appear to be panthiestic. The group, a form of
spiritism, became famous because the Findhorn community in Scotland
has a producing garden near the Arctic Circle which is supposedly
taken care of by plant spirits.
Freemasonry -
. "... We tell the sincere Christian that Jesus of Nazareth was but
a man like us" ("Morals and Dogmas" by Albert Pike in How to Respond
to the Lodge).
Hare Krishna - Founder: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
. Also called: International Society of Krishna Consciousness
(ISKCON). To the Krishnaite, the world is not real; it's illusion.
Salvation comes by chanting the name of their god, Hare Krishna, at
least 1,728 times daily. They believe in the literal interpretation
of the Hindu scriptures, but they also accept the Bible as one of the
scriptures. They consider Jesus one of their gurus.
"I AM" MOVEMENT - Leader: Guy Ballard (Pen Name: Godfrey Ray King)
. Jesus, a man, developed the I AM/GOD SELF within himself. This
almighty I Am presence is a pure reservoir of energy stationed over
the head which can be drawn on at will. Jesus is seen as one of the
many Ascended Masters. They do not recognize the Trinity. This cult
is an off-shoot of the Theosophical Society. Its modern form is
called the Summit Lighthouse or Church Universal and Triumphant.
However, the "I Am" movement still exists as an independent
organization (The 'I Am' Discourses, Saint Germain Press).
Iglesia Ni Cristo - Leader: Felix Manalo
. "We believe in Jesus Christ, but we do not believe that He is
True God. We believe in only one true god, the god of creation.
Jesus Christ is a great savior and was commissioned by God to be the
savior." ("Research Center Bulletin," Far East Broadcasting).
Inner Peace Movement - Leader: Rev. Francisco Coll, DD
. A form of spiritualism and spiritism combining ESP, astro-
projection, psychic phenomena, etc., they introduce seven levels of
consciousness. Christ consciousness is the highest. Jesus had
reached Christ Consciousness and taught this while on earth. Jesus
was a man. They separate Jesus and Christ. God is impersonal and
spoken of as The All, The Cosmos, and The Universe (Every Wind of
Doctrine, Hobart Freeman).
Integral Yoga Institute - Founder: Swami Satchidananda
. "There are not many gods; there is only One. And that One has no
name, no form, no place. (Thus Christ is not God.) He is everywhere
- in actuality, neither he, nor she, nor it ... The two sides are
positive and negative, light and shade. Evil is also God." says the
Swami (The Youth Nappers, James C. Hefley).
Islam -
. Christ was a prophet of Allah, but was superseded by Muhammad's
teachings and authority.
Jainism - Founder: Mahavira
. "Jainism begins by denying the existence of an external supreme
being, creator, or Lord, who is the mainstay of the universe. (Thus,
no Christ.) For these non-theistic humanist, there is no need to
assume a First cause." (Religions in a Changing World, Howard F. Vos)
Jehovah's Witnesses -
. Jesus is a created being, Michael, the first creation of Jehovah
and the "Son of God."
Laymen's Home Missionary Movement - Leader: Raymond J. Jolly
. Similar to the Jehovah's Witnesses, they deny the physical
resurrection of Jesus Christ. "John 4:24 - God is a Spirit. Luke
24:39 - A Spirit hath not flesh and bones ... In the first place, God
directly tells us that Jesus is now a spirit being" (Epiphany Studies
in the Scriptures). "Trinitarians have grossly mistranslated and
miscapitalized this passage to read their trinitarianism into it, as
they have done in other cases. The proper translation shows that
Christ is not Jehovah ... He is Jehovah's appointed Savior for the
world, not Jehovah Himself." (Epiphany Studies in the Scriptures-
Series 1).
Liberal Catholic Church - Leaders: Charles W. Leadbeater and Vincent
M. Matthews
. "Obviously, God is not and cannot be a person. (Thus, no divine
Christ.) The persons of the Holy Trinity are representatives or masks
for the One God who is beyond individuality; is unlimited; eminent;
and transcendent" (The One Existence, E.M. Matthews). The LCC is
independent of the Roman Catholic Church and blends elements of
theosophy and pantheism (These Also Believe, Charles Samuel Braden).
Megiddo Mission - Founder: Rev. L.T. Nichols
. "Christ, Emmanuel, 'God with us,' is not the eternal God but the
Son of God, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, but wholly
human in his nature - Matthew 1:23, Hebrews 2:16,17 .. "(History of
the Megiddo Mission, published by Megiddo Mission Church).
Mormons - Founder: Joseph Smith, Jr.
. Also Called: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Jesus
is a pre-existent spirit, also the Father, one of many gods. Christ
was God-man, and men can be just like him (Mormon Doctrine, Bruce
McConkie).
Nichiren Shoshu Soka Gakkai -
. Soka Gakkai substitutes Gautama Buddha and Nichiren for the True
God and replaces the Bible with the Lotus Sutra, a false scripture.
Soka Gakkai translates to "Value Recreation Society" ("Views on
Christ," John Weldon).
Peace Mission Movement - Leader: Father Divine (George Baker)
. Baker distinguishes between Jesus and Christ. "I say B.J. not
B.C. because it was before Jesus yet, in my opinion, it was not before
Christ" (The New Day, September 1,1945). "Jesus, he (Baker) seems at
times to regard as merely the temporal and physical embodiment of the
Christ" (These Also Believe, Charles Samuel Braden). Baker has
claimed to be God and the Holy Spirit. There are also references in
Baker's writings to indicate that Jesus is God (Kingdom of the Cults,
Walter Martin).
Psychiana - Leader: Frank B. Robinson
. "At no time has God, nor will God, manifest Himself on this earth
or anywhere as a person ... Jesus was no more than a human acting out
the God-power" (They Have Found a Faith, Marcus Bach).
Radha Soami Society - Leader: Charan Singh
. God is seen as attributeless, formless, and impersonal without
personality and name, although they give "him" the qualities of love,
grace, wisdom and power. The Society asserts that there are countless
gods and goddesses, lords, rulers and governors in the universe (The
World of Gurus, Vishal Mangalwadi), thus Jesus Christ is not Lord of
Lords.
Rajneesh Meditation Centers - Leader: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
. "But God (thus, Christ) is not a person. God is the process ...
Existence is without cause ... In the beginning, there is no cause so
in the end there can be no purpose" (Beyond and Beyond, Acharya
Rajneesh).
Rosicrucianism -
. Jesus was a reincarnated man, the highest luminary possible. The
Christ spirit in Him was a manifestation of the cosmic Christ ("Rays
from the Rose Cross," December, 1978).
Ruhani Satsang - Leader: Kirpal Singh
. "Jesus Christ was essentially a man of the East, and his
teachings are imbued with oriental mysticism. It is even speculated
that he spent many of his early years in india and learned from the
Yogins and Buddhist monks" (The Crown of Life, Kirpal Singh).
Sacred Mushroom of the Cross - Leader: John Allegro
. Christ was a mushroom (Sacred Mushroom of the Cross, John
Allegro).
Sanatana Dharma Foundation - Leader: Yogeshwar Muni
. (Also called Kayavarohan). Jesus is a man who achieved a divine
state through meditation. Sanatana Dharma is considered the eternal
path to truth leading to fulfillment and divinity. "Thus men, for the
first time on Earth, could achieve the God level not only in concept,
but in physical manifestations as well" (Vishvamitra Newsletter).
Satanism -
. The introduction to the satanic bible says, "What amuses us most
is that you indicate that a mere command to Satan in Jesus' name is
sufficient to dismiss him. The Prince of Darkness regards both God
and Jesus Christ a figments of man's more infantile imagination, at
least insofar as their supposed power is concerned. God is dead, and
Christ was but a man" (Every Wind of Doctrine, Dr. Hobart Freeman).
Scientology - Founder: L. Ron Hubbard
. Hubbard claims to have found the spiritual technology to dispense
the one "true way" to man. It is a process working through levels of
self-knowledge and knowledge of past lives to awaken the primordial
deity within until a person is able to regain total godhood. Christ
is a man "who achieved a 'state of clear' but not the higher state of
'Operating Thetan" ("Certainty" magazine, Vol 5, No 10).
Self-Realization Fellowship - Leader: Paramahansa Yogananda
. Group also called "Yogoda Satsanga Society." Separates Jesus and
Christ. Jesus was indwelt by the Christ Consciousness. "Let the
omniscient Christ Consciousness come to Earth a second time and be
born in you, even as it was manifested in the mind of Jesus"
(Metaphysical Meditations, SRF Publishers).
Shintoism -
. "Deity is spirit, without form, unknowable ... changeless,
eternal, existing from the beginning of Heaven and Earth up to the
present, unfathomable, infinite ..." (Source of Japanese Tradition,
Vol 1, editor William Theodore De Bary).
Shree Guru Dev Siddha Yoga Ashram - Leader: Swami Muktananda
Paramahansa
. Also called: "Sidha Yoga Dham." This is a self realization group
whose leader claims to be god. "This is the praise of the all-
pervasive, formless, unmanifest, Absolute Being who manifest Himself
in a thousand forms ... Above all, you will receive Divine Grace and
finally realize your own divinity." Rejects God manifesting Himself
in Jesus Christ (Songs of God, Guru, Self - Kabiraj).
Sikhism - Founder: Nanak
. Sikhism developed an abstract and mystical monotheism. God is
formless, sovereign, unknowable and absolute. However, a righteous
person can call upon the grace of Sat Nam - God. If a person reaches
salvation, which is by works, he absorbs into God. Rejects the idea
that God revealed in the Person of Jesus Christ (Cults, World
Religions and You, Kenneth Boa).
Sivananda Yoga Vedenta Centers - Leader: Swami Sivananda
. Also called "International Sivananda Yoga Society." God (or
Christ) is not a person or spirit, but Consciousness. He is sometimes
reborn as a man, other times as an animal, plant, or even inanimate
object. (The World of Gurus, Vishal Mangalwadi).
Spiritual Advancement of the Individual Foundation. - Leader: Sri
Satya Sai Baba
. Jesus Christ is seen as an "Avatar," a deity descended to earth
in bodily form. Sai Baba is Jesus Christ who was returned. Man,
according to Baba, is Atman - Self or God. Man is under an illusion
so that he forgets that he is God. Baba also teaches that God is
ultimately without attributes (The World of Gurus, Vishal Mangalwadi).
Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship - Founder: Arthur Ford and others
. "There was no Christ 2,000 ago. There was a man 2,000 ago
through whom the Annointed One was able to manifest. The man died,
Christ lived, and as the Holy Spirit has been helping ... The Divine
Mind or the Concept of God has within himself all the faculties or
qualities of both male and female. There can be no creative
expression, there can be no life without these two qualities. So God
is neither man nor woman." Ford, a former Christian minister, made
these comments during a seance March 18, 1965 (Unknown but Known,
Arthur Ford).
Spiritualist -
. Jesus was an outstanding Jewish medium (Kingdom of the Cults -
Walter Martin).
Sri Chinmoy Centers - Leader: Sri Chinmoy
. God is seen as Consciousness and Light. Realize the divinity
within you. "It is not because of his (Jesus') miracles that he is
worshipped, but because he brought down the eternal Consciousness, the
infinite Consciousness" (Kundalini: The Mother Power, Sri Chinmoy).
Still Point Institute - Leader: Sujata
. Christ is an evolutive god, a cosmic Christ. A heavy influence
of Zen Buddhism negates the personal God (The Still Point, William
Johnson).
Subud - Leader: Muhammad Subuh (Bapak)
. God is a "Great Life Force that flows through everything and
everyone. It is impersonal." (Thus no divine Christ.) God is felt
through "latihan" which is an inner vibration. The objective in Subud
is to become passive so that you can experience and feel latihan (New
Gods in America, Peter Rowley).
Sufism - Leader: Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan
. God is an "Abstract Sound" which is the creative life principle
in all of nature. "The goal of Sufism is union with God in this
life." Because of its link with Islamic philosophy, it would not
consider Jesus as God (Awakening Ways to Psycho- Spiritual Growth, C.
William Henderson).
Swedenborgism - Founder: E. Swedenborg
. A form of spiritism which also denies the person of the Holy
Spirit. He is called an efficiency or sanctifying influence. "We
ought to have faith in God the Savior Jesus Christ, because that is
faith in the visible God in Whom is the Invisible; and faith in the
visible God, Who is at once Man and God, who enters Man" (True
Christian Religion, E. Swedenborg).
Taoism - Greatest philosopher: Chuang Tzu
. "There is no personal Creator-God" (Cults, World Religions and
You, Kenneth Boa).
Tarotology -
. The most serious form of cartomancy (divination by cards). It
has been linked with magic, numerology, astrology and other cults.
For all the languages about God, Spirit and the Truth of God, the God
and Truth of Tarot are in no way those of Jesus Christ. It is an
idolatrous system (Dennis Hesslegrave, Trinity Evangelical Divinity
School).
The Farm - Leader: Stephen
. An eastern mysticism commune in Summertown, TN. Jesus, a
teacher, was a good man indwelt with Christ Consciousness. "In the
telepathic medium of the Holy Spirit, Christ consciousness, Buddha
consciousness, call it what you will, exist all the time. ... You
don't have to call it Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, it's 'the
consciousness'" (Hey Beatnik! 1974).
The Foundation Church of the Millennium - leader: Father John
. Denies the deity of Jesus Christ. It is an off-shoot of or the
front for the Process Church of the Final Judgement (below) although
they deny affiliation. They were both founded in September, 1966;
began in Xtul, Mexico; listed their midwest address as 1529 N. Wells
Street, Chicago, IL; and have both since moved.
The Holy Order of MANS - Leader: Earl Blighton
. Holds the occult-eastern view that Jesus was a great teacher, but
merely a man who attained an impersonal kind of "Christ Consciousness.
" They separate Jesus and Christ. They believe all can attain Christ-
Consciousness (Spiritual Counterfeit Project, Berkeley, CA).
The Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy.
- Founder: Swami Rama
. "In order to become true members of the Church of Christ, a
person must know not who Jesus was, but what Christ is. Christ,
Ishvara, is the very personal force pervading the universe that guides
and illuminates every aspirant ... It is not an embodied person, but
rather a force in which all individual beings are divine sparks
..."(Meditation in Christianity, Dr. Pandit Arya). Swami Rama has
said, "Jesus Christ was perhaps the greatest of all Yogis."
The Process Church of the Final Judgement - Founder: Robert De
Grimston
. Jesus is a mere man. "The Processeans believe in three gods:
Jehohvah, Lucifer, and Satan" (Sata's Devices, Kurt Koch).
The 3 HO Foundation - Leaders: Yogi Bhajan and Guru Ram Dass
. The 3 HO means Happy, Health and Holy. "What is God? ... He is
cosmic energy ... He is yin-yang; He is positive and negative. He is
male, female ... When you say cosmic consciousness, you mean God ...
You are God ... God is you. Man has never realized he is God ... God
is a stick ... God is a cup ... God is a woman" (The Teachings of Yogi
Bhajan, Bhajan).
Unification Church - Leader/Fonder: Sun Myung Moon
. Moon states that God has dual qualities - spirit and energy. God
is a personal being with consciousness, intelligence, love and
purpose. Salvation can come only through the Messiah who achieves
perfection, marries, and has perfect offspring. Christ, Moon says,
was to do this, but He failed because he died before he could marry.
Because He was resurrected, Moon says, Jesus did redeem man
spiritually. The physical redemption of man will happen through a
second Messiah, but not Christ. The implication is that Moon is the
second Messiah. (Moody Monthly, July 1977).
The Way International - Leader: Victor Paul Wierwile
. A very close counterfeit of Christianity. They believe in God,
the Bible, Jesus Christ, salvation, and eternal life, but not the
Trinity. Jesus is NOT God, and the Holy Spirit is a synonym for God
(Jesus Christ is Not God, Victor Paul Wierwille).
Theosophist -
. Christ took the body Jesus, a man, to become a teacher.
Eventually all men become Christ.
Transcendental Meditation - Leader: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
. Also called "Spiritual Generation Movement," "Student's
International Meditation Society," "TM." Maharishi says the reason
for creation and individual life is the expansion of happiness. This
is done by expanding one's consciousness through seven levels of
consciousness. Jesus is considered an Enlightened One. Leaders have
attempted to claim that TM is not a religion, but courts have ruled
that it is, and the nature of its initiation rites prove that it is a
Hindu derivative. (Meditations, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi).
Unitarians -
. Jesus was a man who believed in One God, not the Trinity.
Unity School of Christianity -
. Jesus was a perfect man, indwelt by the Christ Consciousness,
present in every human being.
Vedanta Society - Founder: Swami Vivekananda
. Also known as "Ramakrishna Order." "They (gods) are human beings
with extraordinary, original powers and entrusted with a Divine
commission. Being heirs of Divine power and glories, they form a
class of their own. To this class belong the incarnations of God,
like Christ, Krishna, Buddha, and Chaitanya and their devotees of the
highest order" (Hindu View of Christ. Swami Akhilananda).
Witchcraft -
. "Down through the centuries, many witches and sorcerers consider
God and Satan as merely symbols of power, with no real existence as
personalities" (Kingdom of Darkness, F.W. Thomas). Some witches may
see Jesus as a wizard who was able to master natural and occult
forces.
Worldwide Church of God - Leader: Hurbert W. Armstrong
. Jesus is a part of the godhead (God is a family) and men can
become like Jesus and part of the God family - Sons of God. They do
not believe in a closed godhead (TRINITY). The Holy Spirit is not
considered a person, but the Father and the Son work through it.
(Derivate cult - International Church of God. Leader: Son of Herbert,
George, was disowned by his father and started this group that
believes the same, but claims that the Worldwide Church lost its
authority when Herbert divorced his wife.)
Zen Buddhism -
. "Since Zen does not affirm the existence of the living God, it is
not only absolutely destitute of the special revelation of God in His
Word, but is wholly alien to the God of revelation." says Lit-Sen-
Chang (The Kingdom of the Cults, Walter Martin).
Zoroastrianism - Founder: Spitoma Zoroaster
. This is one of the first monothesistic religions in the world,
and adherents of this religion are thought to have been the
originators of the Wise Men from the East who searched out Jesus when
He was born. This cult doesn't recognize a personal God. Their god,
Ahura Mazda, is impersonal and has no physical nature (Cults, World
Religions and You, Kenneth Boa).
Computers For Christ - San Jose
NOTE - Those organizations not shown with references are on file with
this ministry with substantial confirmation of the statements. The
computer phone data service has many of them outlined in depth. SYSOP
- Computers For Christ.
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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 89 18:46:01 CDT
From: Charles Forsythe <convex!forsythe@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
Message-Id: <8909292346.AA05902@rigel>
Subject: Lyndon in my life
I went to the Collin County (Texas) "Government Services" office to get a new
sticker for my license plates. By the hand of "Bob", I lucked into a small
LaRouche Democrat encampment outside.
I told the woman at the table I was interested in what they might have to
say. I alse expressed concern about a rumor I had heard concerning Lyndon's
health. She asked me if I knew the details and I said,"Are you kidding? I
wouldn't expect to see Lyndon on the Mass Media! They're too busy covering
Zsa Zsa's traffic trial!" Well, that hooked her. She had now identified me
as the right kind of paranoid cynic that makes up the backbone of this
political circus.
All I needed to do was get a 6 month subscription to her little newspaper (I
paid CASH) and suddenly, I was the recipient of enough freebies to keep me
entertained well into 1990!
For my $20 I got:
1) 6 Months of their newspaper describing the latest CIA attempts
to murder Lyndon LaRouche. Apparently, it is harder for
the CIA to kill a 67 year old man in a Federal Prison than
you would have imagined. So far, their tactics have included
making him work in the kitchen and treating him for intestinal
polyps. Sneaky people those feds...
2) Executive Intelligence Report Vol 16 #38:
70 fact-filled pages about the War on Drugs. Learn how
Henry Kissenger is helping the Syrian's smuggle opium
into the US at the request of Queen Elizabeth! Find out
how LaRouche uncovered the plot to assassinate Pope John
Paul II -- perpetrated by the Bulgarian Secret Police!
3) "Is Satan In Your Schoolyard?" Learn how FBI agents dress up as
clowns (as if you didn't know that) and seduce children
into Satanic pedophilic kidnapping rings.
4) "A revolution in musical tuning has begun" Did you know that
tuning A==440Hz instead of A==432Hz is part of a global
plot to destroy the human spirit itself?
5) 8 copies (some left, kids!) of The New Federalist Vol III #38
Gorbachev allies with Kissenger to supress LaRouche prediction
of world economic collapse! Gun-toting heavy metal stars
threaten our very lives!
6) About 500 (<-- no kidding) leaflets describing how the Jewish
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is really a cover for Satanic
drug smuggling KGB agents.
[I'll be passing these out for weeks -- send a SASE!
Charles Forsythe
Convex Computer Corp.
3000 Waterview Pkwy
Richardson,TX 75083
in fact, I'll even send you an article from any of
the other 10 sources... absolutely free!]
7) "USDA Land Set-Aside is Genocide" Learn how the KGB has taken
control of the USDA thanks to (who else) Henry Kissenger and
is plotting the starve the US while they build an army of
well-fed commies.
8) "Prosecutors Tell 148 Lies" Learn each and every falsification and
misrepresentation that landed "American patriot" LaRouche in
prison. Each one is carefully numbered "Government Misleading
Statement ###".
9) Executive Intelligence Report Vol 16 #36:
Bush a willing dupe of USSR world domination strategy!
1986 assassination of Swedish Premier Olaf Palme was the
work of the KGB -- ADL blames it on LaRouch!
10) 21st Century Science and Technolgy magazine. Learn that:
Air pollution is just a hoax -- The Ozone layer is
indestructable
You can get AIDS by kissing
Greenpeace clubs baby seals as part of commie plot
Cold Fusion works everywhere but in the US (commie plot!)
...and a variety of things you never would have imagined!
[drum roll, please]
11) "Rail Road!" a 600 page book detailing the "conspiracy" to
"unlawfully" jail LaRouche. Talk about GORY DETAIL!
It'll take weeks to find the good stuff in all this, but I'll post it when I
do. Fnord.
-Reverend 3.0 Church of Divine
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