All Discussions Tagged 'cult' - 12160 Social Network2024-03-28T15:53:46Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=cult&feed=yes&xn_auth=no“This is a bizarre, lunatic, totalitarian cult.” – Ted Cruztag:12160.info,2020-12-16:2649739:Topic:21132792020-12-16T16:14:16.140ZParrhesiahttps://12160.info/profile/DianaLovell
<p><span>Yesterday a doctor on MSNBC told Chucky Todd that even though people get the full two dose vaccine regimen, they still shouldn’t travel or stop wearing masks until everyone gets it:</span></p>
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<p><span>Yesterday a doctor on MSNBC told Chucky Todd that even though people get the full two dose vaccine regimen, they still shouldn’t travel or stop wearing masks until everyone gets it:</span></p>
<p><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">MSNBC’s</span> <span class="r-18u37iz"><a href="https://twitter.com/VinGuptaMD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1338917618808475648%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Fthis-is-a-bizarre-lunatic-totalitarian-cult-ted-cruz%2F" target="_blank" dir="ltr" class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" rel="noopener noreferrer">@VinGuptaMD</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">: "Just because you get vaccinated after the second dose does not mean you should be … traveling … or that you’re liberated from masks."</span></span></p>
<p>How exactly does that even make sense? If one has taken the vaccine, then that person doesn’t have COVID and can’t get it. So how exactly does that person pose a threat to others? Either the vaccine works or it doesn’t.</p>
<p>Ted Cruz must’ve thought the same thing, because he suggested this doctor is part of a “bizarre, lunatic, totalitarian cult”:</p>
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<div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div lang="en" dir="auto" class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1dqbpge r-1qd0xha r-1b6yd1w r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" xml:lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">This is a bizarre, lunatic, totalitarian cult. It’s not about vaccines or protecting people’s lives—it is instead profoundly anti-science, and is only focused on absolute govt control of every aspect of our lives.</span></div>
<div lang="en" dir="auto" class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1dqbpge r-1qd0xha r-1b6yd1w r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" xml:lang="en"></div>
<div lang="en" dir="auto" class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1dqbpge r-1qd0xha r-1b6yd1w r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" xml:lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span>He’s not the only one. Here’s a few more responses…</span></span></div>
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<div lang="en" dir="auto" class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1dqbpge r-1qd0xha r-1b6yd1w r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" xml:lang="en"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz r-1mi0q7o"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-eqz5dr r-1777fci r-5f2r5o r-1kh6xel"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2"><div dir="ltr" class="css-901oao css-bfa6kz r-1re7ezh r-18u37iz r-1qd0xha r-1b43r93 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">drdavidsamadi</span></div>
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<div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div lang="en" dir="auto" class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1dqbpge r-1qd0xha r-1b6yd1w r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" xml:lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">The point of the vaccine is supposed to be to get us back to normal.</span></div>
<div lang="en" dir="auto" class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1dqbpge r-1qd0xha r-1b6yd1w r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" xml:lang="en"></div>
<div lang="en" dir="auto" class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1dqbpge r-1qd0xha r-1b6yd1w r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" xml:lang="en"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz r-1mi0q7o"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-eqz5dr r-1777fci r-5f2r5o r-1kh6xel"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2"><div dir="ltr" class="css-901oao css-bfa6kz r-1re7ezh r-18u37iz r-1qd0xha r-1b43r93 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Jim_Jordan</span></div>
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<div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div lang="en" dir="auto" class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1dqbpge r-1qd0xha r-1b6yd1w r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" xml:lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">First, it was don’t wear a mask. Then, it was slow the spread. Then, it was lock everything down. Then, it was wear a mask. Then, it was wait for the vaccine. Now that we have the vaccine, they tell us it’s not going to stop. Freedom!</span></div>
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<div lang="en" dir="auto" class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1dqbpge r-1qd0xha r-1b6yd1w r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" xml:lang="en"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz r-1mi0q7o"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-eqz5dr r-1777fci r-5f2r5o r-1kh6xel"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2"><div dir="ltr" class="css-901oao css-bfa6kz r-1re7ezh r-18u37iz r-1qd0xha r-1b43r93 r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">kate_awakening</span></div>
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<div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div lang="en" dir="auto" class="css-901oao r-hkyrab r-1dqbpge r-1qd0xha r-1b6yd1w r-16dba41 r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" xml:lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Oh ok, I get it. We need a vaccine (twice) with 95% efficacy for a virus with a 99% survival rate but we will still need masks and to quarantine because we can still get it and spread it after that second dose. It totally makes sense if you don’t think about it.</span></div>
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</div> Outrage! National Guard Marked With Numerous Satanic-Luciferan Cult Symbolism by US Government, Including Mark of the Beast! (Jaw-Dropping Videos)tag:12160.info,2014-02-11:2649739:Topic:14121762014-02-11T22:19:40.166Z14300https://12160.info/profile/14300
<h1>Outrage! National Guard Marked With Numerous Satanic-Luciferan Cult Symbolism by US Government, Including Mark of the Beast! (Jaw-Dropping Videos)…</h1>
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<h1>Outrage! National Guard Marked With Numerous Satanic-Luciferan Cult Symbolism by US Government, Including Mark of the Beast! (Jaw-Dropping Videos)</h1>
<p><a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2014/02/outrage-national-guard-marked-with-satanic-luciferan-cult-symbolism-by-us-government-jaw-dropping-videos-2458692.html">http://beforeitsnews.com/prophecy/2014/02/outrage-national-guard-marked-with-satanic-luciferan-cult-symbolism-by-us-government-jaw-dropping-videos-2458692.html</a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Go to link for entire article</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">For starters, the goat’s head is the Baphomet symbol, which is used in Satanism profusely. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/06/satanic-temple-unveils-7-foot-goat-headed-baphomet-statue-for-oklahoma-capitol/">SEE HERE</a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://www.iacmusic.com/symbolspage.html">HERE</a></span> <span style="font-size: 18px;">and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet">HERE</a></span></p>
<blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Baphomet (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English">ˈ</a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English">b</a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English">æ</a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English">f</a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English">ɵ</a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English">m</a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English">ɛ</a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English">t</a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a>; from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Latin" title="Medieval Latin">medieval Latin</a> Baphometh, baffometi, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan" title="Occitan">Occitan</a> Bafometz) is a term originally used to describe an idol or other deity which the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar" title="Knights Templar">Knights Templar</a> were accused of worshiping, and subsequently incorporated into disparate occult and mystical traditions. It appeared as a term for a pagan idol in trial transcripts of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition" title="Inquisition">Inquisition</a> of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar" title="Knights Templar">Knights Templar</a> in the early 14th century,<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet#cite_note-Michelet-1">[1]</a> The name first came into popular English usage in the 19th century, with debate and speculation on the reasons for the suppression of the Templars.<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet#cite_note-2">[2]</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Since 1856, the name Baphomet has been associated with a “Sabbatic Goat” image drawn by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliphas_L%C3%A9vi" title="Eliphas Lévi">Eliphas Lévi</a>,<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet#cite_note-Waite-3">[3]</a> which contains binary elements representing the “sum total of the universe” (e.g. male and female, good and evil, etc.).<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet#cite_note-Guiley2008-4">[4]</a> However, Baphomet has been connected with <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanism" title="Satanism">Satanism</a> as well, primarily due to the adoption of its symbol by the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Satan" title="Church of Satan">Church of Satan</a>.<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet#cite_note-churchofsatan.com-5">[5]</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The O and the X symbol also represent the Mark of the Beast (666).</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">(SYMBOL BELOW) One of the most utilized occultic symbols is the triangle. A triangle with its point downward represents the deity and is called the Deity’s Triangle, or the Water Triangle. With one point up, it is called the Earthly Triangle, Pyramid Triangle, or the Fire Triangle. These two definitions of the triangle are standard occult belief. They came from a Masonic book, Symbolism of the Eastern Star, by Shirley Plessner. Robert Macoy said the same thing in Adoptive Rite Ritual , [Virginia: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply co., 1897, p. 237].</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">However, this latter representation of the triangle, with the point upward, is the symbol of the Perfect or Divine Man.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">See link for full article and videos.</span></p>
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<p></p> D.C.’s ‘invisible army’ for Christtag:12160.info,2009-08-24:2649739:Topic:938342009-08-24T00:05:49.130ZTarahttps://12160.info/profile/Tara
The Family, a little-known religious group, has been getting some unwanted publicity. What do they believe?<br />
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What is the Family?<br />
It’s the most well-connected religious organization that no one talks about. Formed in 1935 by an itinerant preacher, Norwegian immigrant Abraham Vereide, the Family has grown into “a veritable underground of Christ’s men all through government,” in the words of Family member and evangelical minister Charles Colson, the convicted Watergate conspirator. The…
The Family, a little-known religious group, has been getting some unwanted publicity. What do they believe?<br />
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What is the Family?<br />
It’s the most well-connected religious organization that no one talks about. Formed in 1935 by an itinerant preacher, Norwegian immigrant Abraham Vereide, the Family has grown into “a veritable underground of Christ’s men all through government,” in the words of Family member and evangelical minister Charles Colson, the convicted Watergate conspirator. The Washington-based group counts many prominent politicians, mostly conservative Republicans, among its flock, and several members of Congress pay $600 a month to rent rooms in the group’s townhouse on C Street, near the U.S. Capitol. There are Family “prayer cells” in many federal agencies, including the Pentagon and the Justice Department. The Family tries to maintain a low profile (see below), but was thrust into the headlines in recent weeks when it emerged that three politicians embroiled in sex scandals—South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, Nevada Sen. John Ensign, and former Mississippi Rep. Chip Pickering—are longtime members. Pickering, in fact, last week was accused in court papers of having trysts with his mistress in the C Street house.<br />
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Are all members politicians?<br />
No. While members include Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, former Secretary of State James Baker, and former Attorney General Edwin Meese, many business leaders and military officers are also involved. “We work with power where we can,” Doug Coe, 81, the group’s leader since 1969, said in a rare interview in 2002, “and build power where we can’t.” The Family’s only high-profile endeavor is the National Prayer Breakfast, at which world leaders gather each year in Washington for a morning of nondenominational worship; but the Family always stays in the background, and many participants have no idea that the group is even involved.<br />
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What does the Family believe?<br />
Its theology is vague, elastic, and focused on power. The basic precepts came to Vereide in a vision in 1935, according to the group’s literature. Living in Seattle, he came to believe that union organizing in the city was communist-inspired. Jesus appeared to him in the form of the president of U.S. Steel, who told him to gather “key men”—prominent businessmen and political leaders—to beat back the unions in His name. Vereide’s recruiting efforts spread eastward, and in 1941 he arrived in Washington, where he began cultivating friendships with powerful people and setting up prayer groups. By then, Vereide was convinced that conventional Christianity had it backwards: Instead of ministering to the down-and-out, Jesus wanted believers to tend to the “up-and-out”—members of America’s elite who lacked intimacy with Jesus. In Vereide’s worldview, free-market capitalism is divinely ordained, and unions and regulations are a form of blasphemy.<br />
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What about personal morality?<br />
It’s not the most important consideration. “The people involved in this association are the worst and the best,” Coe says. “Some are total despots, some are totally religious.” The mere fact that they are powerful means they have God’s favor, argues Coe, citing a line from St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans: “The powers that be are ordained of God.” Scholar Jeff Sharlet, author of the authoritative book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, explains the theology this way: As long as the powerful develop a close relationship with Jesus, “then they will dispense blessings to those underneath them. It’s a sort of trickle-down fundamentalism.” The theology stems from Vereide’s belief than only “key men” can change the world, and only with Jesus’ guidance will they change it for the better. The Family believes in a “total Jesus,” who pervades every thought and action.<br />
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Does the Family excuse adultery and other sins?<br />
Not exactly, but it considers the powerful to be accountable only to God and their peers, not to their constituents or the Constitution. Coe speaks often of the biblical King David, who slept with another man’s wife, then ordered the cuckolded husband into battle, effectively sentencing him to death. Yet despite his personal failings, David was one of God’s chosen, and his reign was a blessing to the Israelites. When Gov. Sanford invoked King David to explain why he wouldn’t resign over his adulterous relationship with an Argentine woman, “you could almost hear Doug’s voice,” says Sharlet, who considers the Family’s disregard for conventional morality “potentially very dangerous,” because it “leads you away from accountability to the public.”<br />
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Is the Family a threat?<br />
Few in Washington seem too worried. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has taken part in Family activities despite her liberal politics, and has called Coe “a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God.” The first President Bush called Coe an “ambassador of faith.” Supporters also note that Family members helped convince President Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin to call for a worldwide day of prayer to usher in the Camp David Peace Accords. And members helped broker a 2001 peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Such successes, Family members say, demonstrate the group’s good intentions. “There’s nothing sinister here, no dark secrets,” says former Rep. Tony Hall of Ohio. “It’s the exact opposite of what Washington is about.”<br />
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Secrecy by design<br />
Family members quickly learn that the first rule of the Family is not to talk about it. In 1966, Vereide, who referred to his following as an “invisible army,” decreed that the Family should “submerge the institutional image” of the group—a policy maintained by Coe. As Coe once said in a sermon, “the Family functions invisibly like the Mafia. The more you can make your organization invisible, the more influence it will have.” Family members organize themselves into small “cells” that are, in the group’s own words, “publicly invisible and privately identifiable.” Coe has expressed admiration for the way such leaders as Adolf Hitler, Ho Chi Minh, and Osama bin Laden organized followers into small groups that shared a “covenant.” With a covenant, he says, “two or three people can do anything.” Where those leaders went wrong, he says, was in not making their covenants in Jesus’ name.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theweek.com/article/index/98841/DCs_invisible_army_for_Christ" target="_blank">http://www.theweek.com/article/index/98841/DCs_invisible_army_for_Christ</a>