종교의 숭배: 신앙의 기원과 결과

### 종교의 컬트: 컬트 지도자와 그들의 신념의 뿌리 살펴보기
* 📜 지난 며칠 동안 한 사이비 종교의 집단 자살이라는 비극적인 사건이 발생하면서 **현대 사이비 종교 지도자들의 기원과 영향력**에 대한 논의가 활발해졌습니다.
* 📰 연사는 짐 존스나 데이비드 코레쉬 같은 지도자들이 **뉴에이지나 동양 철학이 아닌 주류 기독교 운동에서 나온 경우**가 많다는 점을 지적하며 이들의 신념이 어디서 비롯된 것인지 의문을 제기하는 편지를 언론 매체에 보냈습니다.
* 🔍 종교적 텍스트를 문자 그대로 해석하는 것은 특히 **미래의 사이비 종교 지도자가 될 수 있는 정서적으로 취약한 개인**에게 위험을 초래할 수 있다는 점을 강조합니다.
* 💭 연사는 일부 종교적 신념의 부조리함을 사이비 종교의 기괴한 사상과 비교하며 비판하는 한편, **주류 종교는 그 자체의 극단적인 내러티브에도 불구하고 종종 도전받지 않는다**고 강조합니다.
* ⚔ 이 토론에서는 일부 종파가 자살을 강조하는 반면, **주류 종교 단체는 역사적으로 서로에게 폭력을 행사**해 왔으며 이러한 신념 체계의 도덕성에 대한 의문이 제기되고 있다고 지적합니다.
* 📊 연사는 폭력과 증오의 핵심 문제는 **종교적 가르침을 문자 그대로 해석**하는 데서 비롯된다고 주장하며 어떤 영적 단체에도 가입하지 말 것을 경고합니다.
* 📖 마지막으로, 연사는 영적 집단에 대한 인식과 주의의 필요성을 강조하며 **해로운 이념과 행동으로 이어질 수 있는 신념에 대한 비판적 검토**를 주장합니다.

종교는 정서적으로 취약한 개인에게 위험한 믿음을 심어줌으로써 사이비 종교 지도자를 양성합니다.

into what we're going to talk about today. I wanted to make a comment about what has happened over the last couple of days and share some things with you. I've written some letters to newspapers and so forth, and radio stations about this cult in which 39 people committed suicide. Over the last few years, we've experienced several contemporary cult leaders, and I think it's important to put it into perspective as to where these people come from. I wrote a letter out, sent it out to newspapers and radio stations and so forth, and basically the idea of it was, where do the cult leaders, these cult leaders, get their basic training from? Where do they get these ideas from? You know, and this is something that you, it's very, it's interesting how the media will point fingers right away at anybody who might have an opinion that's different than the mainstream, but they never pause to reflect on the people that led all of these people to their deaths. Jim Jones

was an evangelist out of the born-again Christian Movement. David Kesh was a born-again Christian schooled in the Seven Seals. Marshall Apple White, this fellow who was involved in this last one, was the son of a Presbyterian Minister and came out of the choir and the whole B. Not one of them had any experience with the new age, not one of them had any experience with Eastern philosophies. All three of them were out of the Born Again movement. And so, if there's a danger to the children of this world, this is where it comes from. It comes from Christian and religious institutions that teach the Bible and ancient documents literally, lit Al. And when they teach these things literally, they never know who it is that's sitting in the audience who is emotionally disturbed. And when you teach this kind of stuff to emotionally disturbed people, you are training the cult leaders of the future. I mean, come on. We have people that are aghast with the fact that these people in this cult thought they were going to fly up in rendezvous with a

spaceship that was following the hail po Comet, and then they were going to go up to heaven somewhere like God. These people are nuts. I mean, that's ridiculous. I was raised in a group, and I was taught not of a cult philosophy like that. That's silly. My teaching was that there were two nudists in a garden talking with a snake, and the snake told them where they could find some fruit on a tree, and they ate the fruit on the tree. An invisible man in the sky got so ticked off about all this that he killed his kid, and now his kid is coming back riding on a white horse through the clouds. But before his kid gets back here, his father is going to start a nuclear war called Armageddon and wipe out a third of everybody that lives here. But no fear, because before he starts this nuclear war, everybody that believes is going to fly up through the sky and meet Jesus in the air. Now that sounds okay. This other cult stuff is ridiculous. Our stuff, do you know what it

is it depend do you know why we don't criticize the fundamentalist religious cults of Christianity and because that's our cult that's our cult what what what you have to look at is you know anybody who has a that's different than our cult that's evil our cult is fine but I'll tell you something there is a basic tenant in Christianity called The Rapture in which they believe and they teach that people who believe will be caught up fly through the air they won't even use a u UFO they fly without a UFO this is even better and they'll meet Jesus who's coming down they'll meet him going up and you've got to be be careful not to use too much propellant cuz you could just pass them right by I mean you could just shoot up and go into orbit this is funny okay but that's our cult That's the basis of our cult and that is completely acceptable why my God we have Bibles and we go in how do you do sister oh how do you do brother I'm

going to sit down and learn about the two nudists who talk to the snake. This is great. I'm going to send my son into Sunday school and learned about the man who took two of every animal on a boat with no windows in it for 40 days. Take that one if you will. I believe that glory to God. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something about the Cults of the world, all right, and the violence and the evil of the world. It is religion that teaches about blood sacrifice, only religion. It is religion that teaches of animal sacrifice. In some places in this country, they still sacrifice animals. In some places, they throw goats off the top of a roof to celebrate Jesus. Throw them all. How Praise You holy Jesus. They do. That's okay. Going in a UFO is bad, but throwing a goat off a roof. Glory to God. We read last week that this Minister, the Methodist Minister down somewhere down south, had a special hunt for Christ. They went out and they hunted Coons. He says it's a wonderful way to

share the love of Jesus to blow a coon's head off. It is religion which teaches of devils, demons, and Satan, things that don't exist other in the mind of people. It is taught by religion. Where do you think these people get this stuff from? It is religion which teaches of the god-originated nuclear war called Armageddon. It is religion which teaches that believers will be people who fly up through the air to be with Jesus. It is religion that requires its members to give 10% of their income to the church. It is religion that has figured in wars throughout the world and killings such as gone on in Ireland and in Israel for ages. It is religion that gave the Middle Ages the name the Dark Ages. It is religion that teaches exorcisms, and it is religion that taught David Koresh about the Seven Seals and fire. It's religion. The enemy is us. I've never met a new age person who was anxious to die. In fact, they're just radical the other way. They're taking all

this stuff so they can live forever. Easier. I never heard him. That what is that. I'm going to take e. I'm GNA. Cult leaders start out as faithful members of the congregation, but nobody knows their emotional condition as they learn of these things. And when these cult leaders, who are just members of the congregation, sit there and hear the preacher talk about flying up through the air or hear the preacher talking about blood sacrifice or God needs teaching these things, literally is like lighting a fuse under these people. So is it fair to be warning about cults and neglect to warn people of the central cult where these leaders get their weird ideas? They didn't get their ideas from New Age. They didn't get their ideas from Eastern philosophies. They got their ideas from the born again and the fundamental movements in this country. But isn't it true that this main cult is off-limits from criticism because it's ours? This cult is called religion, see? So maybe we should just warn people about joining any spiritual

organizations, and that's why in this church there are no members, 'cause I knew exactly what would be said when day 'cause we don't agree with them. There are no members in here. This is the only place in the state of New Jersey that can't possibly be a cult because there are no members. So I wrote a letter, and I was watching. I've got that. I wrote this letter to the news departments, and you can have a copy of it if you want it before you leave today. And I wrote a letter to Geraldo Rivera because it was a fell on Geraldo Rivera. And I said, on Geraldo Rivera's program, there was a man who was discussing cults in light of the mass suicide that occurred in San Diego. This man betrayed himself as not really knowing what he was talking about when he named the Jim Jones group, the David Koresh group, and this group, and included it in with Krishna. Krishna movement is one of the largest fundamental organized religious groups in the world. It is as large in

the Eastern world as Christianity and is actually the source of many Christian beliefs, such as the Virgin birth of Jesus that was taken from the birth of Krishna. This person on Haraldo is programmed by calling Krishna a cult, was clearly demonstrating ignorance as well as a total intolerance for anyone whose religious views were different than his. I mean, what is the difference if somebody follows Krishna or somebody follows Jesus? Why does it make one a cult and another not? Because it's your cult. Notice also that he never once alluded to the cults of Christianity or Judaism. It is true that the Jones cult and the Kesh cult and this Apple White cult seem to emphasize suicides. The mainline Christian and Jewish cults do not do that. They do not emphasize killing themselves. They emphasize killing one another. Islam and Jewish cults in Israel are doing this now and have done this for years. Catholic and Protestant cults in Ireland have been blowing each other up for years. The Christian cult was responsible for torturing and burning people at the

stake in the Crusades and Inquisition, which was matched only in horror by Adolf Hitler. But this is acceptable to us since we are part of these cults. Would survive by demanding 10% of their income from their members. And while we look at a gas at the beliefs of these people who committed suicide and are sarcastic about their beliefs in the UFO Theory, let us remember the fundamental beliefs of our dear Christian cult. Two naked people in a garden were convinced by a snake to eat an apple. An invisible man in the sky got so ticked off that he killed his son. Now his son is coming back to the Earth riding a white horse through the sky. But before he does, his father who loves us so is going to start a nuclear war called Armageddon and wipe out a third of the population on the earth. Praise the Lord. And this is the basis of the most violent cult that exists on the planet Earth today, Christianity. And if you're not willing to take them on, then it is really unfair.

to lump everyone who has a different spiritual opinion together with those who cross the line between spirituality into insanity, as did these people in San Diego. But remember again about the people in San Diego; their cult killed themselves. The cult we love kills each other, so I've got a copy of that too, and you can have that, and uh, so be it. There are no members in this place. We document everything that we have said scientifically, and until uh, you know, I, I, as I've said over and over again, these people who are these cult leaders, and you can identify their background: David Koresh, Jim Jones, and Marshall Applewhite are all graduates of the mother cult that most of you have come out of. I recently lived uh, one of the other U cults, a bit of a hidden cult, is the not only obviously white supremacist but even the militia. Yeah, I understand, I understand. Well, the point is, let me tell you this way, for your children's sake and for your

sake. Whenever you walk into a group that is spiritual or religious, don't join it. You can go to a meeting, nothing wrong with that. Go to a seminar, go to a workshop, that's wonderful. Don't join it, don't join it, because that indeed is where all of the violence and all of the hate and all of the horror of this world has come from, and it has come out from literal interpretation. The problem with this, look, look, look, just take these people, just think for a second. I mean, you know, the I, these people were very close to knowing, but something went wrong, and they made a terrible mistake. And I'll say this to all the Born Again Christians watching, if God chooses to come back or send people down here in a UFO, what is it your business? Any incident in the Bible that has ever been shown in which a person was either taken off of the Earth or in which people came from another place is in the book of First Kings and in the Book of Ezekiel, and it has to do with

unidentified flying object. That's what's in the Bible, all right. The problem with these people in San Diego, they made a terrible mistake. A UFO is a physical machine. That physical machine has physical people driving it. If you ever want to get on a UFO, you're going to have to have legs and arms and be able to walk and be alive. If God sends a UFO tomorrow to land on this Earth, the unfortunate thing is there will be 39 people who will miss it. You've got to be alive. God has given you life abundantly, and you're to take care of your body, and you're to be alive. And this thing of them flying up into the air dead, or like religious people take all of

771 Religion Is A Cult

William Donahue

종교 기관이 사이비 종교 지도자에게 미치는 영향

최근 잇따른 사이비 종교의 자살로 인해 그 지도자들의 배경에 대한 의문이 제기되고 있는데, 이들은 모두 거듭난 기독교 운동 출신입니다.

종교 기관에서 성경과 고대 문서를 문자 그대로 가르치는 것은 일부 개인의 정서적 장애에 기여하여 잠재적으로 미래의 컬트 지도자를 양성할 수 있습니다.

연사는 컬트에 대한 주류의 인식을 비판하며 컬트의 종교적 가르침도 똑같이 터무니없고 잠재적으로 해로울 수 있다고 주장합니다.

연사는 근본주의 기독교가 휴거와 같은 의심스러운 믿음을 가지고 있다고 지적하면서 종교 숭배를 비판하는 이중 잣대를 강조합니다.

그들은 종교가 폭력, 피의 희생을 가르치고 해로운 관행을 조장하는 데 책임이 있다고 주장합니다.

연사는 종교가 역사적으로 전쟁, 살인, 사회적 해악에 중요한 역할을 해왔다는 점을 강조합니다.

종교가 사이비 종교 지도자에게 미치는 영향

컬트 지도자들은 종종 설교자의 가르침에 영향을 받은 신실한 신도로서 시작합니다.

그들의 아이디어의 주요 원천은 종종 종교의 근본적인 운동이며, 영적 조직에 대한 비판에 대한 의문을 제기합니다.

연사는 모든 영적 단체에 신중하게 접근해야 한다고 주장하며, 주류 종교의 해로운 행동은 무시하면서 일부 단체를 이단으로 분류하는 위선을 강조합니다.

종교 컬트에 대한 비판과 그 영향력

기독교를 포함한 종교적 컬트는 신도들에게 헌금을 요구하는 데 초점을 맞춘 폭력적이고 교묘한 관행으로 비판을 받고 있습니다.

연사는 이러한 사이비 종교와 아돌프 히틀러와 같은 악명 높은 지도자를 비교하며 그와 관련된 파괴적인 신념과 행동이 얼마나 파괴적인지 강조합니다.

이 이야기는 많은 컬트 지도자들이 비슷한 배경을 가지고 있으며 이러한 컬트의 영향이 사회에 해롭다는 것을 시사하면서 영성의 개념에 도전합니다.

영적 또는 종교적 단체에 가입하는 것의 위험성

영적 또는 종교적 단체에 가입하면 문자 그대로의 해석으로 인해 폭력, 증오, 공포로 이어질 수 있습니다.

연사는 UFO에 대한 성경적 언급과 그 탑승자의 신체적 특성을 강조하며 그러한 사건을 경험하기 위해 살아 있는 것의 중요성을 강조합니다.

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